Knowing about fleas

The fleas are owners of the dogs, one of the parasite insects more known, so much for the frequency with which they appear in their pets like for the difficulty that it is sometimes their eradication. Is interesting to know more about their biological cycle, this way we will be able to combat them more efficiently and with more rigor. 

The fleas always live on the skin, preferring the areas of the back - loin, abdomen and also the genital peri. In the puppies however, it is more frequent their localization in the area of the neck and the head. For their localization in the animal, it is not necessary to see them run around the hair. By observing their excrement that crowd in concrete places of the dog, among the hair, of brown - black color. 

The fleas of the dog usually live permanently on them feeding of the blood of these. When stings, the fleas inject an anticoagulant that cause a reaction that is the responsible for the allergic dermatitis to the fleas. This dermatitis is the cause of the lesions of the skin and of the etching that suffer the dogs affected by fleas. The females put the eggs on the coat and they fall to the floor (or on the places frequented: carpet, sofas, huts, etc.). To give us an idea of their multiplication power, a female flea can put among 30 to 50 eggs at day. 

Larva from fleas will be born of the eggs that, after three changes, they will become pustules. The pustules can remain in latent state until the conditions are favorable for their birth. These conditions are: the detention of vibrations in the land and an appropriate temperature. The total time since the eggs are put until the mature fleas are born it is variable in function of the conditions that are favorable (summer) the cycle can be completed in 15 days, while when they are not (Winter) it can be prolonged until the year. 

The fleas apart from causing an important lost blood, nuisances to the dogs and the commented allergies, they can also transmit them a parasite of the thin intestine (called dipylidium caninum) because the fleas have ingested larva of this parasite, which they inoculate in the blood of a dog and from there it moves until their definitive place: the intestine. This can be one of the reasons for those that a dog that has never had contact with other animals of his species can have roundworms. Also, we will carry out an internal anti parasitical treatment since the dogs that have been invaded by fleas, the transmission of this parasite it is usually quite frequent. 

The treatments dedicated to eliminate the problem of the fleas in dogs will be based on trying to eliminate the mature fleas of the animal by means of powders, shampoos, necklaces, sprays, pipettes, etc. however, this measure alone won't be enough, since in the means where the animal is unwrapped they will exist eggs, larva's and pustules that, when being born, they colonize the skin and the coat of the dog again. For this reason it is imposed, also, to carry out a treatment on the environment by means of powders, sprays, pulverization liquids or administering to the animal products that affect the reproduction of the fleas. These last products usually administer once a month in pill form.  

Puppy Suggestions

• To take all the cautions when we bath him.  
• To watch over and to control the contacts with other animals and the outings. 
• Do not produce abrupt changes of food and schedules of the same. 
• Do not force it to carry out excessive exercise, never to drain it (mainly if it is a big breed).