How to Treat Fleas on Dogs

Sometimes your dear dog brings home some pets of his own. Dogs often get infested with fleas through contact with other animals or through contact with fleas in the environment. Following a multi-step process should help you to control fleas on your dog and to end your misery.

Getting started - treating fleas on dogs

1. First, remove fleas from the indoor environment. Adult fleas can be easily found on the body of the dog. But flea eggs, larvae, and pupae are found in the environment in abundance like in your beddings, carpets, rugs and in the grass.

The presence of a single flea on your pet is a signal of dozens hiding in your living room. So make sure that you treat your environment at the same time that you treat the fleas on your dog.

Regular and detailed vacuuming helps clean the indoor atmosphere of any fleas. Always consider throwing away the vacuum bag, sealed in a plastic cover. This helps stop the fleas from escaping.

Also, use a product that contains both Adulticides as well as an insect growth regulator to stop further growth of fleas inside your home.

Pyriproxyfen and methoprene are two examples of this. They can be in the form of foggers, carpet powder or aerosol sprays. Use the product not only in rooms but also on the beddings of your pet plus the areas he has complete access to.

2. Second, remove fleas from the outdoor environment. This involves cleaning the yard and the kennel, the patio, the porches, etc. In short, treat all the areas he goes about to. Rake away any organic debris. This helps to disturb any flea habitat. While using a spray make sure that it is environment-friendly.
3. Third, remove the fleas from the body of the dog. There are typically eight treatments that should treat the fleas on your dog:
4. I) first, use flea shampoos, powders, and sprays that will get rid of fleas present at the time of application.
5. II) Second, you can use flea rinse or dips. You need to spread it onto your dog from tail to nose after giving him a wash. The effects last for 4-5 days.

III) Third, you can use sprays called insect growth regulators (IGR). These are generally applied weekly and it helps to crack the flea’s life cycle.

1. IV) Four, you can make use of flea collars. They are low-priced and contain a toxic to exterminate the fleas.
2. V) Five, use the spot-on products that can be applied topically to a small area of the dog’s skin and they can effectively kill the fleas for a month.
3. VI) Six, use the flea pill. You need to manage it orally to your dog at breakfast time, at least once a month. It stops flea eggs from producing and breaks the life cycle of fleas’.

VII) Seven, use natural methods like essential herbal oils, essential fatty acids, vitamin B and/or garlic to make your dog less juicy to the fleas

VIII) Eight, daily fleas comb your dog to physically take away any fleas off his body.

Finally, keep the immature forms of fleas from developing. Prevention is definitely better than cure. So make sure you use repellents like pyrethrins to keep fleas away and prevent a flea problem from developing. Call a Pest Control Bendigo professional to get more info about fleas.