Fleas and ticks are transmitters of serious diseases, so it is essential to maintain the dog free of these undesirable hosts. It tends to be recommended to use anti-parasite collars that should be replaced twice a month to ensure its correct functioning. These days, the market offers products that are administrated orally once a month and that tend to be most effective when dealing with outside hosts. There are as well other options such as drops that are placed on the animal's hair, weekly, every two weeks or monthly, or shampoos that act against the parasites.
Whichever method you chose, remaining constant with the applications is a vital step towards the dog's recovery and health especially in spring and summer when these
parasites are most active. Fleas are very difficult to get rid of because they can adapt to almost every surface or material within the
house such as carpets, sofas, pillows, mattresses, etc, where they spend most of their live, and they only go to the dog (other animal, or a person) when they need to feed themselves with
blood, returning immediately to the original habitat. That's why, when these animals are detected in the pet (usually they leave bright brown excrement droppings on the dog's
hair or fur), the deworming treatment cannot be limited solely to the animal, but to the entire surroundings,
house, furniture, etc, to get rid of adult fleas and other hosts. It is extremely important that when you are either certain or remotely suspicious that your dog has intestinal
parasites the excrement of the animal should be burned o evacuated through the toilet in order to avoid the risk of re-infectation of the animal as well as of the surroundings. Your dog's droppings should never be used as a fertilizer in your backyard because they may contain
parasites that will spread through out the
house and host people and other animals.
Main Infectious Diseases
