If you’ve ever owned a pet, you know that they are susceptible to a host of parasites. Fleas are one of the most common pests that can latch onto your pets, and they post a number of dangers. Flea bites hurt your cat or dog, causing them to scratch incessantly. Fleas also transmit diseases like tapeworms and bacterial infections. Not only do they hurt your pets, but they can bite humans as well! Here are some ways that you can prevent fleas from entering your home.
Use a Professional Service to Treat Your Lawn
Fleas, like most pests, attach themselves to your pets outdoors. Once your dog or cat brings them inside, Fleas can burrow into your carpets and upholstery. Therefor, making sure your own yard is flea-free is a big step to ensuring a safe and healthy home. By hiring a professional service like PurLawn, you can ensure that your outdoors are safe for your indoors.
Hiring a professional service to treat your lawn for ticks is essential to ensure a continued fight against fleas. Especially in the warmer, more humid months, Fleas can reproduce at an alarming rate. Fleas tend to gravitate towards areas where your pests like to dwell, so it is important to let your lawn care technician know which places to focus on.
Treat Your Pets
There are plenty of new products and medicines that you can give your pets to prevent and treat for fleas. If you start to notice your pet scratching more often than usual, you might want to consider checking for fleas. Consulting Professionals is important, so if you do notice fleas on your animal, you should take them to a veterinarian.
Treat Your Home
Because fleas can burrow and hatch within your carpets and furniture, it is important to keep your house clean. You can begin to rid your home of these pests by vacuuming and washing your carpets and upholstery. In order to more thoroughly eradicate fleas and their larvae from your house, you might want to consider hiring a pest specialist.
Professionals can treat your home with insecticides and baits in a safe and effective manner. Fleas are immune to most insecticides, so using the correct products in the right area is key to eliminating fleas. Getting underneath furniture, cushions, and carpets is key to ensuring a healthy home.
Regular Treatment
Although fleas thrive in warmer temperatures, they can turn your house into a year-round breeding ground if not taken care of. This is why staying vigilant against indoor and outdoor fleas requires regular monthly treatment. PurLawn provides these treatments with EPA approved, organic-based products because we care about your pets! Instead of having to deal with the headache of dealing with fleas, why not try preventing them from entering your home?
Regular Rodent Inspections
It is important, even if you do not own any pets, to scan your lawn and home for these parasites. Fleas can thrive on rodents like raccoons, opossums, and squirrels that live in your yard and below your turf. Because fleas can pose risks to humans as well as animals, it is important to regularly check and clean rodent traps. Luckily, PurLawn provides that service for you, so you don’t have to worry about larger pests lurking in your yard.