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There are basically three steps to getting rid of fleas:
Kill the fleas on your pet.
Get rid of fleas in your home, including eggs and larva.
Continue to treat your pet, to avoid re-infestation.
If it sounds simple, that’s because it is. The important thing to keep in mind is that treating your pet and treating your home [...]
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Many of us prefer to totally avoid the use of toxins in our home, and particularly on our pets. Fortunately, there are many natural flea control methods available
The first thing to realize about natural flea control remedies, is that just because something is natural, does not mean it’s not toxic. Pyrethrins, insecticides derived from the [...]
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Program is a monthly oral flea medication for dogs and cats. Program contains the hormone lufrenon, which prevents flea eggs from hatching. Program is available as “flavor tablets” for dogs, or as a liquid to mix with food for cats.
Treating your pet with Program will cause the hormone lufrenol to enter the fleas system as [...]
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Advantage will kill fleas on contact, before they can lay eggs in your home. Advantage is sold in small, plastic vials that contain one month’s dosage. Advantage is applied to the skin on your pet’s back, and it diffuses over the rest of the skin, providing long-lasting protection.
Advantage is very effective, and 98-100% of fleas [...]
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Frontline is a long-lasting flea control medication that will kill fleas on dogs for up to three months, and a month on cats. Like Advantage, Frontline is sold in small, plastic vials, and applied to your pets back.
Frontline is probably the most popular of the topical flea treatments currently available. Generally, regular applications of Frontline [...]
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As we’ve seen, effective flea control requires that you treat your home as well as your pet. Flea eggs and larva aren’t present on your pet, but in the carpet in your home, in bedding, and outside where your pet frequents. There’s no point in killing the fleas on your pet if they’re just going [...]
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Many of the typical sprays and powders people use on their pets are not that effective. They tend to work for awhile, then wear off, or get washed off, or just stop working. Also, many people don’t realize that effective flea control requires that you kill the fleas in your home as well as the [...]
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