Fleas & Ticks: An ounce of prevention

4/3/2019 4 Comments

Fleas & Ticks: An ounce of prevention

Do you know what they say about an ounce of prevention?
Besides the beautiful wildflowers peppering our hillsides, our wet winter is expected to bring us a significant flea and tick season. The warm, moist conditions that we are seeing now are favored by both fleas and ticks, and will actually accelerate their life cycles.

Some flea/tick facts for you:
- Fleas can jump 100X their own body length.
- They will hitchhike until they find a suitable host (ie: bring them home on your clothes to your pets).
- Average lifespan of a flea 2-3 months, ticks 3 months, but both have to ability to “go on hold” with their lifecycles until conditions are favorable. Ticks up to 3 years!
- A single flea will lay up to 2,000 eggs, and a tick several thousand.
- Fleas will lay them on the pet, but will roll off and develop in the environment (that is under your couch, in bedding, carpet…) Ticks lay their eggs off the host in the environment (yard, window casings, baseboards, drapes…)
- Fleas and ticks have been around for at least 100 million years!

Is your skin crawling yet? Besides these wee beasties being disgusting, why care about an infestation? They will cause a multitude of health issues including dermatological conditions, discomfort, stress for owners, anemia/death in some, tapeworms, can transmit protozoan, bacterial, rickettsial and viral pathogens (to humans too)- Lyme disease or Bubonic Plauge anyone? Ticks rank second to mosquitoes in transmitting more disease than all other pests.

What to do?
This is where Ben Franklin’s idea of "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" comes in. Get your pets on a quality, monthly flea and tick preventative before you have a problem! You won’t have to deal with treating your house, pets, yard and having to make appointments to cure Fluffy’s flea allergic dermatitis, or tapeworm infestation, or having to send blood off to the lab for a tick titer after Fido isn’t eating and running a fever. The cost of flea prevention is far less than treatment and a whole lot easier! Dr. Davis has her own flea and tick prevention favorites that you can discuss with her at your next appointment and decide which will work best for your pets. If we don’t have it in stock, we can direct ship it to you from our online pharmacy!
We love to keep pets healthy and their owners happy!

Sharon Douglas

12/20/2021 08:20:24 pm

I was diagnosed with Lyme disease 5 years ago and was taking Antibiotics and Nonsteroidal anti-Inflammatory drug which seemed to help. However, I still suffer from some of the symptoms. My symptoms have always been chronic fatigue, joint pain, and even neurological problems in controlling hand and leg movements. I am a 54 year old female. the Antibiotics wasn’t really working and I could not tolerate them for long due to severe side effects, There has been little if any progress in finding a cure or reliable treatment. Acupuncture eased my anxiety a bit. Our primary physician recommended me to www. kycuyuhealthclinic. com and their amazing Lyme treatment. My symptoms including chronic fatigue, joint pain and rash, disappeared after 4 months treatment! The herbal treatment is a sensation.. My Lyme disease is totally reversed! this is a herbal store that will be leaving it’s footprint in this world. I’m 54 and have never been this healthier

Tex Hooper link

8/29/2022 04:24:49 pm

I didn't know that fleas make pets feel like their skin is crawling. I need to get my dog some acupuncture. She has high anxiety from her surgery and fleas.

Mia Evans link

10/25/2022 09:05:42 pm

I never took into account the fact that the ticks can lay eggs even outside their host. In that case, it doesn't matter if we have pets or not, so we should hire a tick control professional to work in our backyard. It's because I started to notice some on the deck and grass near it.

Millie Hue link

1/24/2023 07:57:44 pm

Thanks for pointing out that fleas and ticks can actually cause skins issues once there is an infestation in our pet. I hope to find a veterinarian here in Rancho Cucamonga, California, because I already have plans on getting my own dog in February. Since it will be my first time, I would love to make sure that I will be giving the best care for my pet with the help of experts.

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