FleaS EXPLAINED
Fleas are not nice and it’s best to prevent your pet getting them rather than wait for an infestation before treatment. Indeed, if your pet gets fleas so does your house – for every one live flea you see on your pet there could be 100 eggs and larvae around the house, waiting to hatch! So as well as treating your pet you’ll also need to treat your house.
However, flea prevention is very simple. You can apply a ‘spot-on’ treatment which will act against fleas for 1-2 months depending both on the brand and how much your pet likes swimming.
‘Spot-on’ treatments are small tubes of liquid which are applied to the skin between the shoulder blades and provide cover against fleas for 1-2 months. There are also tablet and spray products available which are very effective.
With flea treatments, the most effective medications are prescription-only and available from your pet’s vets or pharmacies with a veterinary prescription. You can of course buy ‘flea treatments’ in many forms from pet shops or supermarkets, but they may not work as well.
Also the checkout person cannot give you advice on what will work or what dosage to use (this differs depending on the size of your pet) but your veterinary practice can.
If in doubt about which is best to use for your individual circumstances your vet or the veterinary nurses will be more than happy to advise you.