With so many products being advertised as being the best for controlling fleas on pets, it’s difficult to know which ones are really the most effective and the safest to use. Through research, the ones available at most veterinary hospitals and clinics have been proved to be the best to use on pets. They are ...
Summer is here, which also means that fleas and ticks are here as well – even though that does not mean that they are not here during the winter time. In order to keep the fleas and ticks off of your pooch, it is important to find the flea control product which is the most ...
Recently, I moved out of the city to a more rural area. One of the first things I discovered when I moved was that I had some very irritating neighbors – wood ticks (ticks) and fleas! For those of you who don’t know, wood ticks are small arachnids, which along with other mites live off ...
So many diseases are carried by ticks and fleas it’s important to have a protection system for your pets.Our Chihuahuas are on Frontline most of the time. We’ve used this for years. We purchase it from DrsFosterandSmith.com but recently we decided to try Advantix. No particular reason just thought we’d save a few dollars. I’d ...
With pets come fleas and ticks in the yard and home. For years the only option was to spray or wash the pets with flea and tick control and use flea collars. I couldn’t tell if any of these products had killed a single flea or tick. Washing was your best bet to rid flea ...
When most people think of hiking in the woods, their main concerns tend to be about things like venomous snakes and bears. My biggest fear while hiking in the summer comes in a much smaller package. The thought of tiny seed ticks has been enough to keep me inside on more than one occasion, and ...
There are a lot of misconceptions and old wives’ tales about how to remove a tick from a dog. According to veterinarian Dawn Ruben, all a dog owner needs for successful removal is a pair of tweezers, a bottle of rubbing alcohol and a small plastic container with a tight fitting lid such as an ...
Many years ago, my mother took home a young kitten, of whom we were to name Tommy. A woman that worked with my mother at a bank, brought in a litter of kittens that her female cat gave birth to, and naturally, she couldn’t keep them all. One by one, other co-workers picked out which ...