FLEA and TICKS FAQs
Why Are Fleas and Ticks Dangerous To Your Pet?
Fleas and ticks can transmit many diseases to your pet and to humans, through their bite, including plague, tapeworms, flea allergy dermatitis, cat scratch disease, haemobartonellosis and murine typhus. Ticks can transmit Lyme Disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and several other diseases.All of these diseases are dangerous and plague kills.
What Do Fleas and Ticks Eat?
Fleas are parasitic insects that bite and then suck the blood of their host pet.
Will The Fleas and Ticks On My Pet Also Bite Humans?
There are human fleas that prefer the blood of humans and cat and dog fleas that prefer the blood of your pets. Ticks will bite any mammal.
Why Are Most Flea and Tick Control Products Dangerous?
Most common over-the-counter flea and tick control products, from the oral pills to the collars and sprays, contain dangerous poisonous ingredients like imidacloprid, fipronil, permethrin, methoprene and pyriproxyfen. There are tens of thousands of documented cases of these substances causing skin irritations, seizures and even death. These substances are hazardous to your pets and you also.
Why is Dr Greengood’s Fleas and Tick Killer Safer Than The Dangerous Over-The Counter Products?
Dr Greengood’s Flea and Tick Killer and Dr Greengood's Habitat Flea and Tick Killer is organic and 100% non-toxic to humans, pets and the environment and has true third party independent laboratory testing certifying its safety and efficacy. Dr. Greengood’s can also be used to apply both directly to your pet, killing fleas on contact, and also to treat your pet’s habitat and other areas of your home, to prevent your pet from becoming re-infested with fleas.
How Is Dr Greengood’s Flea and Tick Killer Applied?
Dr Greengood’s Flea and Tick Killer Spray is applied with a light spray to your pet’s coat, while working the spray application into the coat on longer hair pets. Your pet’s habitat areas should also be treated with a light spray, to prevent re-infestation of your pet. It is important to note that Dr Greengood’s Pet Flea Treatment Spray is water soluble, so each time your pet is bathed, or immersed in water, it must be reapplied.
Dr Greengood's Habitat Flea and Tick Killer is used to treat to treat those areas where your pet sleeps or frequents, including your pets kennel, bedding and carpeted areas around your home. Treating these areas are important to killing those fleas that your pet has introduced to these locales and preventing re-infestation.