Treating for Fleas

Submitted by Veterinary Wellness Partners on Thu, 10/23/2014 - 4:33pm

In our region of Ohio, fleas are a recurrent theme and pest.  We see a lot of flea infestations, most specifically with increasing frequency in the late summer and fall months.  

Treating Your Pet

The first thing in treating a flea infestation is to treat your pet with w product that is recommended by one of our veterinarians.  We recommend treating your pet at least twice, with 4 weeks in between each treatment.  It is our advice to use flea prevention on animals that go outside from April through the end of Novemember.  We sometimes say "Tax day to Turkey day," which seems easy to remember.  We will qualify that statement by stating that you will need to watch the weather.  In order to shut down flea season, we need two heavy/ killing frosts no more than two weeks apart.  We also tell people to keep in mind that it takes a deeper freeze to kill fleas inside of many outbuildings, including barns.