How to Pet Flea and Tick Control

Fleas and ticks are widespread in pets during spring until early fall. They can spread diseases like Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and Tularemia. They can eat up to 600 times their body weight. They usually prey on your pets for several days and then fall off and hide under your furnitures, carpets and other areas inside your house. This is why it is important to do pet flea and tick control.
Your pets can easily get fleas and ticks by having contact with stray pets or fleas-infested and tick-infested pets. They can also get infested by fleas and ticks by walking through shrubs and high grass. Symptoms of fleas and ticks infestation may include constant scratching and biting, hair loss and broken skin.
In order to do flea and tick control, you should be able to know the differences between the 4 stages of these pests. An adult flea lives for 2-3 months under your carpets and at the foundations of the house. They suck the blood from your pet and can lay eggs within 48 hours. A flea's egg is nearly invisible to the naked eye. It hatches within 1-10 days on warmer temperatures. A larva resembles maggots and furrows in carpets, and other furnitures. It takes 7-10 days to become a pupa. It is highly resistant to insecticides and highly visible to the naked eye. A pupa lives in cracks and crevices around your house.
The best way to rid your house of fleas and ticks is to do a multiple approach in eradicating these pests. The first thing you should do is to clean your house thoroughly. Use a powerful vacuum cleaner in vacuuming every crevices and corner of your house. Make sure that you also vacuum the place where these pests would live in.
To do flea and tick control, wash all your clothes and carpets using the hot water cycle. Then, dry it using the highest dry setting possible. If there are some garments that may be damaged using the hot water cycle, put it in a plastic bag, seal it and bring it to a dry cleaner.
Natural treatments in doing flea and tick control are not enough to kill all pests that thrive inside your house. You should use a pesticide that has chemicals that can kill adult pests. But before you spray pesticide on your house, read the instructions first and make sure that pets and your children aren't inside your house when you're spraying. If there is a heavy infestation, hire a fumigator.
Last step in doing flea and tick control is to treat your pets using a flea spray your veterinarian supplied you with. Apply the treatment the same day you did your cleaning. Quarantine them by keeping them inside a closed area that is easy to clean.