The hazards of certain flea and tick prevention is a well known subject to veterinarians and their technicians but unfortunately, the public is still very much unaware.  Safe, top quality flea and tick prevention can seem costly to the average person but the results of not using prevention or using a cheaper version can be far more expensive.

Let's start with not using flea and tick prevention at all.  So your pet gets a tick or two that you can pull off at your leisure.  So your pet gets a few flea bites and they become itchy, no big deal, right?  Wrong!  Fleas are more of a pest than just a few flea bites here and there.  Fleas live and breed on your dog and IN YOUR CARPET!

What does that mean to you? Your house becomes infested, your pet is never rid of fleas and you start to get flea bites as well.  Fleas can cause itching, hair loss and allergies.  These in turn can lead to hair loss, open sores, infections.  Ultimately, you will end up taking your pet to the veterinarian for skin treatments, flea treatments and then flea treatment for your home....all of which are very expensive.  If you have flea allergies, a visit to your doctor may also be in order...another cost. 

Should have put that preventative on, huh?

One thing I didn't mention was that the ingestion of fleas can cause tapeworms.  And although you may think that this ingestion may only occur with your pet and a nice expensive dewormer will cure it, you too may involuntarily ingest a flea.  Gross.

What about those ticks?  They are ugly, they give most people the willies but it's what they give your pet and you that is the most important. Rocky Mounted Spotted Fever, Lymes Disease, Ehrlichiosis anaplasmosis, Tularemia, Relapsing Fever, Colorado Tick Fever, Babesiosis, Tick Paralysis, and many more.  Doesn't sound so innocent any more does it?

Use the prevention!

Now that you are wanting to use flea and tick prevention, the kind you use is very important.  There are reasons that some prevention is found hanging in the grocery store and the other kind is found being prescribed by your veterinarian.  In this case quality of your prevention can mean life or death for your pet.  There has been many cases of adverse reactions to store bought flea and tick prevention, some even leading to death.  Don't skimp on this medication for your pet, get yours from your veterinarian.  They will know what one is best for your pet and for the area you live in.  Trust me on this one if nothing else.

The EPA has even started stepping in.  You can read more about this new development in the Healthy People, Healthy Planet section of Mother Earth News.  They even discuss natural flea prevention towards the bottom of the article.

Don't let fleas and ticks cost you money or cost your pet its life.

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