Worst flea season in years
Clearwater, Florida - Dogs scratch and bite, sometimes until their skin is raw. Many pet owners and veterinarians are calling this the worse flea season they’ve seen in years.
Every time your pet steps outdoors, there may be a field of fleas waiting to latch on.
Megan Kempshall, Veterinary Technician:
“Anywhere outside where you have grass or anything organic, they’ll be there.”
Veterinary Technician Megan Kempshall says fleas hide in a pet’s hard-to-reach places.
Kempshall:
“It can seriously affect them. The can get hair loss or get sick if they have serious flea allergies.”
Lexie, a 2-year-old Beagle mix waiting for adoption at the Humane Society in Pinellas, isn’t scratching anymore. She’s protected by a topical skin solution.
Kempshall:
“If you take a dog for a walk that has been on monthly prevention, you don’t have to worry about it.”
If your pet has fleas, animal experts say it’s as important to treat your animal as it is to treat the environment they live in.
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Chet DiPillo with Do It Yourself Pest Control in St Petersburg says more than half his business this season has been for fleas.
Chet DiPillo, Owner Do It Yourself Pest Control:
“I’ve got people with no pets loaded with fleas in the house from the population on their lawn.”
DiPillo says a warm winter, dry spring and summer allows fleas to keep reproducing. One flea can lay 20 eggs a day, 600 in a life time. Dipillo says the solution calls for consistency.
DiPillo:
“You treat, wait a week, treat again, you wait. You treat two, three weeks and can get them. If it’s a bad problem, go four to five weeks.”
Experts say the key is to treat home, yard and animal at the same time to be rid of fleas.
Animal experts say other signs of fleas include “flea dirt”. Pull back your dog’s hair. What looks like dirt may be a flea’s fecal matter. Using a comb, pull the particles onto a white sheet of paper. If it turns reddish brown, it’s fecal matter. The red color comes from the blood the flea sucked out of the animal.
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