Are Your Pets Crying for Freedom from Flea-dom?
Spring brings warmer days, longer nights, flowers, and community barbeques. As temperatures rise, another season approaches. Pest control 24/7! (Mosquito, flea, tick season) You know ticks can harm your health, pets, and home from our tick blog post. Our next instructional target—another yard target—is the same. Fleas are next.
Why We Hate Fleas
Most people know the common annoyances of fleas for cats, dogs, and sometimes even humans. Their bites are itchy, their saliva can be an allergen causing rashes, and they can cause skin problems when your cat or dog scratches incessantly. What many people don’t know is that fleas actually carry diseases just like mosquitoes and ticks. Fleas find “hosts” and those hosts are warm blooded animals. Naturally they are usually dogs and cats, but they can also be opossums, rats, and other rodents. According to the ASPCA, since fleas can consume 15 times their own body weight in blood, they can cause anemia and a significant amount of blood loss over time. They can even cause tapeworm!
Did You Know?
We won’t call these “fun facts” since there is nothing fun about a flea infestation.
- The flea was actually the cause of the bubonic plague in the middle ages! It is still the carrier of the plague today, but thank goodness for antibiotics.
- When searching for a host fleas can jump over 10,000 times in a row…the length of three football fields!
- Fleas can bite up to 400 times a day!
- A female flea can lay 2,000 eggs.
- On average, a flea lives 2-3 months.
Flea Prevention and Treatment
You want to be sure you are taking all necessary precautions to keep fleas outside of your home when dealing with something this determined. A monthly flea and tick preventative administered once a month throughout ALL seasons is advised if you have pets, according to vets. It is ineffective to treat your dog or cat for fleas only in the spring and summer. Your veterinarian might overlook the fact that treating your yard is the first step in flea prevention. Let
24/7 Local Pest Control be your first line of defence against these disease-carrying pests because our mosquito control services also kill and prevent fleas and ticks. Get a free estimate from us right away. Jumosquito treatments mosquito treatment solution has no contracts or obligations.
