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- Clean your home thoroughly. For any level of flea infestation<\/strong><\/em>, you will need to do a thorough house cleaning. Vacuum every corner of your home, wash all your dog\u2019s bedding and toys, and vacuum your car too. Even if you don\u2019t take your dog in the car, fleas <\/strong><\/em>can travel on yourself and stay in your car when you leave the home.<\/li>\n
- Use a spot on medication such as Advantage or Frontline. Although only applied to one spot on your pet, spot on medicine is extremely effective at covering your pet\u2019s entire body. The medicine is not affected by bathing, swimming or rain and will kill and repel fleas <\/strong><\/em>for several weeks before application. Make sure to purchase one that is appropriate for your dog\u2019s age and size.<\/li>\n
- If your flea infestation<\/strong><\/em> is serious, oral medications when combined with spot on medications will work to disrupt the life cycle of fleas. Try hiding the medicine in your dog\u2019s food or smashing it into a powder and mixing it in your cat\u2019s wet food.<\/li>\n
- Bathe your dog with special medicated shampoo that kills fleas <\/strong><\/em>on contact. This process usually needs to be repeated every two weeks as the effective ingredients in these shampoos don\u2019t last as long as spot-on or oral medications.<\/li>\n
- Keep your yard trimmed back to help reduce the population of fleas<\/strong><\/em>. You can try using various yard sprays or granular treatments available at your veterinarian or garden center.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summer is around the corner and that means flea season. Clear the Air wants to protect your pets from harmful pests such as fleas. Is your pet safe from fleas? Follow these helpful steps below to make sure your pets aren’t overtaken by flea infestation this summer: Clean your home thoroughly. For any level of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[17,113,174,54,69,18,265,33,628,632,629,630,343,19,25,38,631,344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cleartheair.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Use a spot on medication such as Advantage or Frontline. Although only applied to one spot on your pet, spot on medicine is extremely effective at covering your pet\u2019s entire body. The medicine is not affected by bathing, swimming or rain and will kill and repel fleas <\/strong><\/em>for several weeks before application. Make sure to purchase one that is appropriate for your dog\u2019s age and size.<\/li>\n