Mt Pleasant SC Vet Clinics Flea Info

Flea Facts

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Only 5% of any given flea population is on the pet. 95% of every flea population is in the environment. You may have a problem without seeing the fleas.

The first step to eliminate a flea infestation is to stop reproduction.

The cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis) is the flea found on cats and dogs. This means you need to treat both dogs and cats, not just the dog or just the cat.

Fleas stay on the pet. When an adult flea hatches from its pupal stage, it jumps on a dog or cat passing by and stays with that animal for life.

Fleas do not jump from one dog to another. Fleas are acquired from an of infestation of the premises, whether that is outdoors or indoors.

Eggs are laid on the hair coat of the pet and then roll off into the environment where they hatch into larvae. They then enter a pupae stage before emerging as adults.

Once a flea jumps onto an animal, it immediately feeds and breeds, laying eggs within 24 hours. A female can lay 50 eggs a day, each day it is alive. That’s 2000 eggs in a lifetime!

You need a product to kill adults as well as a product to inhibit growth.

No one product does it all. Talk to us at Mount Pleasant Animal Hospital or Shuler Veterinary Clinic to see which flea prevention or treatment is right for your pet!