Sentences with phrase «fleas in our living environment»

There are natural and safer ways to eliminate fleas in our living environment.

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Treatment is usually fairly easy, as the insects are easily killed with flea shampoos, and typically do not live free in the environment.

Most of the fleas are living in your pet's environment, rather than in its fur.

Immature flea life stages in a pet's environment consist of around 95 % of an infestation and can be almost invisible to the naked eye.

Due to the life - cycle of the flea (5 % on the animal, 95 % in the carpets / flooring), it is very important to treat the home environment as well.

For every flea you find on your dog there are approximately 100 more in various life stages in your home environment just waiting to become adults and jump on to your pets or perhaps even you.

Historically, we've been told to treat the cat, and also treat the pet's living environment in order to kill the fleas and get rid of the eggs.

All cats are at risk of flea infestation, but those at highest risk include cats that have access to outdoors, cats living with other pets that go outdoors, and cats in multi-cat homes or environments.

However, with 95 % of flea and egg larvae living in your environment rather than on your pet, it is equally if not more important to treat your home too, otherwise the infestation will return time and time again.

With all of these stages of the flea's life cycle in the environment, it used to be that we would have to treat the pet and the environment separately with multiple products.

The warm weather can reignite fleas living in the environment that have been lying dormant in the cooler months.

Your dog can continue to be exposed to fleas that live in the environment.

If the cat lives in a flea - infested environment, tapeworm infection can become re-established within a few weeks.

In other words, the tapeworm is unable to complete its life cycle without the presence of fleas in the environmenIn other words, the tapeworm is unable to complete its life cycle without the presence of fleas in the environmenin the environment.

The fleas that we see on our clients» pets come from the immediate environment that the pets live in.

The life cycle needs to be understood to effectively control the fleas in the animal's environment.

Unlike fleas which spend most of their life on a host, ticks spend most of their life in the environment and are often found under leaf litter, in tall grasses and in forested areas.

It is important to remember that most of the flea's life cycle is not on your pet, but rather in the environment.

For every adult flea you see, there are about 20 more fleas in the immature stages (eggs, larvae, and pupae) living in your pet's environment.

You may see an occasional «hitchhiker» adult flea that your dog has picked up at the dog park or in the yard or other infested environments where 95 % of the flea population lives in the form of eggs, maggot - like larvae, and pupae.1 SENTINEL ® SPECTRUM ® and SENTINEL ® FLAVOR TABS ® put an end to fleas before they become adults.

Unlike many parasites, most fleas live in the environment, not on your pet.

Many of them were in very bad condition — covered in fleas, dirty and un-groomed, but in spite of the bad environment they had been living in, they were still friendly and social.

However, this may be a perfect fit if you're dealing with fleas in the «off - season» or if you live in an environment where the presence of fleas and ticks are minimal.

This is why dog owners often don't see live fleas on their dog unless there is a severe flea infestation in their immediate environment.

«Fleas and ticks can carry serious, life - threatening diseases, and they are active in almost all climates and environments throughout the U.S.,» said Dr. Dottie Normile, associate director, scientific marketing affairs at Merck Animal Health.

If you can't find any signs of actual fleas on your dog or in your living environment, or if you have done the full flea eradication treatment on your dog and home but your dog is still scratching excessively, it's time to ask your veterinarian for advice.

The only phase of the life cycle that lives on the pet is the adult, this means that > 50 % of the fleas are in the environment of your home.

If the dog lives in a flea - infested environment, reinfection with tapeworms may occur in as little as two weeks.

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Only 5 % of the flea population actually lives on your pet, so if you are seeing 5 fleas, it means that there is another 95 fleas living in the environment.

This residue can significantly reduce populations of immature flea stages living in the environment.

Flea eggs hatch into a larval stage which feeds on debris and organic matter and lives freely in the environment outdoors or in your home.

Most fleas live in the environment, not on your pet (only 5 % live on your pet), so there a number of things you can do to reduce flea numbers in your environment as well as using a monthly preventative.

Not all eggs in the environment will develop into adults within that first month so you need to use flea prevention for AT LEAST 3 MONTHS to break the flea life cycle and get rid of the fleas in your pet's environment.

The length of time for the flea to go through their whole life cycle depends on temperature, humidity, and the presence of an animal in the environment.

A clean environment is particularly important for natural flea control in warmer months or if you live in a warm climate, as this is when the flea life cycle is more rapid.

This will result in breaking the flea life cycle and eventually eliminating fleas and immature stages from the environment.

In order to break the flea life cycle and eliminate fleas and immature stages from the environment, it is recommended that flea control products be used every month year round for all dogs and cats in the householIn order to break the flea life cycle and eliminate fleas and immature stages from the environment, it is recommended that flea control products be used every month year round for all dogs and cats in the householin the household.

Treating the ENTIRE environment when one has a flea infestation is very important, as most of the flea life cycle does occur in the home or yard.

However, 95 - 99 % of fleas are eggs, larvae and pupae living in the environment.

The average life span of a flea is just under a week, but in some environments colonies of fleas can survive for twice that long.

However, fleas can happily live in our indoor environments all year long.

Fleas that are in the environment, not living on your pet (and often unseen) can survive without a blood meal for more than 100 days.

Fleas can live for up to a year, so make sure that any fleas or their eggs remaining in the environment — including in rugs, on furniture, and in pet bedding — are remFleas can live for up to a year, so make sure that any fleas or their eggs remaining in the environment — including in rugs, on furniture, and in pet bedding — are remfleas or their eggs remaining in the environment — including in rugs, on furniture, and in pet bedding — are removed.

Please also note that even if you can not find any adult fleas on the dog, it does not necessarily mean that the environment is totally free of fleas in other life stages which can at some future point infest and affect your dog again.