Fleas not only give to animals an inconvenience, forcing to scratch constantly, but also carry dangerous diseases which can seriously affect health of pets. Therefore it is better to prevent infection with fleas, than then to treat consequences of their stings.
How to prevent infection of a pet with fleas
The animals who are contained houses practically have no chance to be infected with fleas. If they do not go outside, it is possible to be quiet - insects will not be able to get into hair of a cat or dog in any way. In a risk zone only those pets who live on the first floors of houses. Sometimes fleas get into these apartments from basements where they are brought by homeless animals. Also give an inconvenience not only to pets, but also people, biting them. To struggle with the fleas who lodged in the apartment, rather difficult, but it is possible. There is a national way which helps to bring these insects. It is necessary to dig a wormwood - two-three big bushes and to make it in five liters of water. To allow to infuse during ten - fifteen minutes, then this broth to wash up a floor, especially places under chairs, beds, sofas. It is necessary to do it two-three times a day. Fleas will disappear soon.
Means from fleas are subdivided into natural and synthetic. The first are almost harmless to animals, they can be used even on cubs. The second it is more preferable to adult individuals.
If the pet has access to the street, it is the best of all to buy to it a collar from fleas. He constantly delivers in skin of animal substance, pernicious for these insects. A collar expiration date - about half a year. After that it needs to be changed for new.
The pet has fleas - what to do
If the pet after all was infected with fleas - they need to be brought as soon as possible. Special shampoo will help to cope with insects. If the pet is infected very strongly, then washing happens as follows: the dog or a cat are immersed in the bathroom and plentifully apply shampoo from fleas. Food wrap from above is reeled up on a croup, a back, a stomach. Are separately processed by place shampoo around eyes, behind ears, ears, paws between fingers - exactly there like to hide fleas. In ten-fifteen minutes, shampoo can be washed away. Then to put on a collar from fleas. If insects remained - to repeat the procedure of washing with shampoo against fleas two-three more times. It is possible to do it every day until the pet is not saved from importunate insects completely.
Fleas from animals if there is a lot of them, can bite also people. Therefore it is necessary to struggle with insects at once as soon as they were noticed on pets.
Except shampoo it is possible to find sprays and lotions from fleas in pet-shops and also drops and tablets which are very convenient in application in case the cat was infected with insects. They, as we know, not too like to bathe and the more so they will not stand and wait until shampoo works. Therefore to cats special substance to the area of a nape is simpler to drip or to give a tablet to get rid of fleas.