Sentences with phrase «fleas drink blood»

Some of us are all too familiar with the spectacular skin inflammation in a flea - bite allergic pet but many people forget that fleas drink blood and that lots of fleas can drink lots of blood.

Because fleas drink blood, they also spread disease, not only between animals of the same species, but between species.

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Once on a pet, the flea will start drinking blood immediately and about eight hours later will start to mate with other fleas on the pet.

The flea drinks the lufenuron in the pet's blood and then becomes unable to make chitin, the material composing the insect's exoskeleton.

Fleas thrive when living on a host, such as your dog or even you, and they bite their hosts and drink the blood, which allows for the transmission of various flea - borne diseases.

Meanwhile, fleas living on the pet have been happily drinking the pet's blood, mating, and laying eggs.

The flea will actually bite a dog's skin in order to drink blood, and its saliva causes much the same reaction as that of a mosquito: a raised red welt and intense itching.

Because fleas drink your dog's blood, a large number of them can cause anemia.

However, to live, adult fleas need to drink in either pet or human blood.

Besides drinking an animal's blood and causing truly demonic itching (especially if your pet suffers from flea allergy dermatitis), fleas can bring on anemia and a host of diseases.

By the time a flea has reached adulthood and is taking blood meals from a pet, it has made all the chitin it needs and is not directly affected by the lufenuron it is drinking in the pet's blood.