The careful owner will hardly want to stand near himself a pet with fleas in wool. Someone saves an animal from these insects by means of folk remedies, and someone – by means of expensive medicines. And quite often it happens so that good intentions of the owner turn for a puppy into serious problems with health.
From where fleas undertake
Fleas can appear at a pet even in case the best care is provided to him and it extremely seldom walks in the neighbourhood with vagrant animals. For example, the dog can "catch" fleas in that place where shortly before her the cat full of fleas or a dog walked. The fact is that such bloodsuckers are capable to survive long time on leaves of trees, among the fallen-down foliage and in a grass. And in a pursuit of a food source, that is an animal, they can overcome quite long distances. Length of one jump of a flea can reach 350 mm, and in height they jump on the whole 250 mm, that is they can catch up and climb up even a large dog. Besides, larvae of fleas can get to the house where the animal, on a sole of footwear or the owner's clothes lives. And if the adult animal can be saved from fleas, having processed his wool special vetpreparata which part aggressive chemicals are, then in case of infection with insects of a two-month puppy you should not undertake such measures.
How to save a puppy from fleas
At early age any animal transfers presence of fleas at itself in wool very hard, and dogs not an exception. At two-month age the puppy is not able to cope independently with blood-sicking insects even in small degree yet. Moreover, he can just not understand that he gives him such trouble and to mislead the owner a plaintive poskulivaniye, loss of appetite. Often symptoms of infection with fleas at puppies are similar to an initial stage of some disease, and owners even often do not suspect that the pet's indisposition is caused by blood-sicking insects.
At detection of fleas in a hair of a two-month puppy it is necessary to take measures for their destruction immediately. It is possible to use folk remedies if the quantity of individuals of insects is not high, for example, cheremichny water yet. At a big congestion of fleas in hair of a puppy it is necessary to take already more serious measures. The simplest option is to use special shampoo against fleas which can be bought in veterinary clinic or specialized shop. It is necessary to use means precisely on the enclosed instruction, and after its application hair of a puppy should be washed carefully with flowing water and at once to dry up. It will be necessary to repeat such processing at least 3 times. It is not recommended to apply antiflea drops or collars to disposal of insects of two-month puppies as they can pinch means from the body or take off and sgryzt a collar that is fraught with serious poisoning.
How to prevent appearance of fleas in a puppy
But it is the best of all not to bring fleas at a puppy, and to prevent their emergence. It is much easier to carry out preventive measures, it is only enough to examine regularly his hair, to erase its laying in hot water with addition of plain laundry or children's soap and to iron it after washing by the hot iron. Besides, it is necessary to process the room where the pet, disinfectants lives.