Does My Pet Have Fleas?
* If you have seen one flea on your dog, he has fleas. In almost all cases, there are many more fleas unseen than seen.
* You can check for flea dirt, which is actually tiny specks of dried blood left by fleas when they bite your pet. Comb through your pet's coat onto a wet piece of paper towel. If the specks falling onto the paper turn red, your pet has fleas!
* Another test to see if a particular room is infested is: Wear white socks into a room that you suspect has fleas, that the pets have not been into for awhile. Since fleas are attracted to vibrations, your footsteps will cause them to jump toward . . .
You can set a night light over a flat pan of water, with a bit of dish soap in it, over night. Fleas will jump toward the light and end up drowning in the water to be discovered in the morning. Even one flea means that you have fleas. If that flea is a pregnant female, she will lay 400 eggs. Two hundred of those are daughters that will each lay 400 more eggs and you can go from zero to infinity in about 18 days.
* If you have seen one flea on your dog, he has fleas. In almost all cases, there are many more fleas unseen than seen.
* You can check for flea dirt, which is actually tiny specks of dried blood left by fleas when they bite your pet. Comb through your pet's coat onto a wet piece of paper towel. If the specks falling onto the paper turn red, your pet has fleas!
* Another test to see if a particular room is infested is: Wear white socks into a room that you suspect has fleas, that the pets have not been into for awhile. Since fleas are attracted to vibrations, your footsteps will cause them to jump toward . . .
You can set a night light over a flat pan of water, with a bit of dish soap in it, over night. Fleas will jump toward the light and end up drowning in the water to be discovered in the morning. Even one flea means that you have fleas. If that flea is a pregnant female, she will lay 400 eggs. Two hundred of those are daughters that will each lay 400 more eggs and you can go from zero to infinity in about 18 days.