THE FLEA PROBLEM Fleas and ticks are responsible for a number of diseases in pets and people. Some types of ticks, for example, can transmit bacteria that cause Lyme disease to animals and humans and some fleas can harbor tapeworm larvae, which grow into adult tapeworms in intestines of pets or people. Flea bites commonly cause skin irritation and itching and some pets are allergic to flea saliva. Taking care of your pets responsibly includes protecting them from fleas and ticks. Fleas can be a problem even in best kept homes and on cleanest of pets. The best approach to managing fleas is prevention. But if you already have a flea problem, you can control them as long as you treat both your pet and your home. Many products are available to help control fleas and ticks on pets and in their environment. Check with your veterinarian for appropriate treatments.

FLEA TREATMENT AND CONTROL The objective of treatment is to break flea life cycle by treating home, pets, and outside environment with insecticide. Before purchasing and applying pesticide products to pets to control fleas and ticks, talk to your veterinarian about best product to use and how to treat animal, as well as environment.

Now, every pet owner wants to have a sense of security that their pet will be returned if lost, and this is evidenced by popularity of various identification techniques, such as pet tags, tattoos, and pet microchips. But, all of these means of pet identification have their limitations, and those limits are based on fact that owners’ information will not change, and that finder knows how pet is tagged. Although most recognizable form of identifying a pet is pet tag, this method is also subject to limitations above, but a company called RecoveryPets.Com has rectified this problem.