Fleas, Ticks, and Your Pet FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions about ridding your pet and home of fleas and dealing with ticks.
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02 Fleas: How do they enter the house?- Fleas can enter the home in many ways, even if your pet is not or ...
- 03 Fleas: Why should I worry about fleas?
- Since fleas can be carriers for worms and diseases, keeping your ...
- 04 Fleas: How can I tell if my pet has fleas?
- To check if your pet has fleas, part its hair and look for:...
- 05 Fleas: Preventive measures
- Conventional wisdom and older studies that studied rat fleas ...
- 06 Fleas: How to choose your methods
- There are several ways to kill or discourage fleas. Some are ...
- 07 Fleas: Lifecycle
- You must keep in mind the life cycle of the flea. From egg to ...
- 08 Fleas: Keeping clean
- Having your carpets professionally cleaned WILL NOT get rid of ...
- 09 Fleas: Natural methods
- These tend to be of the
- 10 Fleas: Spraying Inside
- There are a number of companies that will spray your house ...
- 11 Fleas: Treating Outdoors Areas
- When treating the area surrounding your house, remember that fleas ...
- 12 Fleas: Dipping Your Pet
- For an immediate flea problem, you can bath your pet with ...
- 13 Fleas: Combing Your Pet
- Flea combs with fine teeth that snag fleas are commercially available....
- 14 Fleas: Powders
- Flea powders are handy, but there are many types and some are ...
- 15 Fleas: Borax And Salt
- Also known as sodium polyborate, sodium tetraborate, sodium borate....
- 16 Fleas: Vacuum
- Put flea powder in the vacuum cleaner bag to kill any fleas that ...
- 17 Fleas: Flea Collars
- See Consumer Reports, August 1991. Flea collars aren't effective ...
- 18 Fleas: Newborn Animals
- Very young animals can die from overinfestation of fleas. They ...
- 19 Fleas: Toxicities Of Different Products
- According to Steven A. Melman and Karen L. Campbell's
- 20 Fleas: Flea Control On Rabbits
- by Sandi ...
- 21 Fleas: Systemic products
- These have all appeared within the last two years or so. The ...
- 22 Fleas: Homes with pregnant women/crawling infants/baby animals
- Specific recommendations from
- 23 Fleas: Preventing flea infestations in your next home
- Since flea larvae can lay dormant for surprisingly long periods ...
- 24 Fleas: Conclusion
- In general, you will have to use a combination of some of ...
- 25 Ticks: Description
- Ticks are in the phylum of animals called Arthropoda (...
- 26 Ticks: Role in diseases
- Ticks are the most important arthropod in transmitting diseases ...
- 27 Ticks: Kinds of ticks
- There are two basic types of ticks. Soft ticks, the argasids, ...
- 28 Ticks: Lifecycle
- All ticks have four life cycle stages. Adult ticks, produce eggs. ...
- 29 Ticks: Removing a tick
- When you find a tick, use tweezers to pick up the body and ...
- 30 Ticks: Infections or abscesses
- If you have left the head of the tick in your pet's skin, chances ...
- 31 Ticks: Disposing of ticks
- To dispose of the tick, drop it into alcohol to kill it, then ...
- 32 Ticks: Where you pick up ticks
- Adult ticks can remain on deer and other mammals through the fall ...
- 33 Ticks: Combatting ticks
- If you have heavy infestations of ticks in your area, spraying ...
- 34 Ticks: Lyme disease
- Lyme disease is a complex illness that affects wild and ...
- 35 Ticks: Transmission
- When a tick bites, the bacterium is transferred into the blood of ...
- 36 Ticks: Symptoms
- The symptoms of this illness have now been separated into ...
- 37 Ticks: Vaccination
- There is a vaccination against Lyme disease for dogs that is ...
- 38 Ticks: R. Sanguineus
- They can carry various diseases including the protozoa Babesia ...
- 39 References and Addresses
- Consumer Reports, August 1991. Contains an article discussing ...
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