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By Pedro Romaguera
Photo: JVB Red
Here you can hear me download the veterinary section at EL FARO Pedro Romaguera BALEAR March 3.
Fleas are insects narrow blackish-brown and flat, not flying, measuring between 1.5 and 4 mm long. Can be annoying and irritating to their hosts and can cause allergic dermatitis or be transmitters of parasitic infections such as tapeworms.
The cat flea is very similar to the dog but noticeably small, of course the most notable feature of fleas is their extraordinary ability to jump. With their long legs and sturdy and light weight, can jump 50 to 70 cm in air at times covering a horizontal distance of one meter. An adult female after an hour in a new host has sucked so much blood that her weight has increased by 40%, while the male only manages to increase by 3%. Most of the evacuated blood undigested and your stomach is too small to digest so much. So flea feces consist mainly of coagulated blood undigested. As the dog moves, the droppings dry your hair fall to the ground and environment, providing food for flea larvae. A severe infestation of fleas on a puppy can easily lead to anemia.
Approximately, only 1 to 10% of the flea population lives on the animal, while the remaining 90 or 99% live in the environment as eggs, flea larvae and young.
In an attempt to fend off fleas, the dog scratches and chews furiously throughout the body, especially the sides, the base of the tail and around the anus, if it continues it can produce a bite allergic dermatitis flea that is associated with infection and inflammation of the skin with areas of alopecia (hairless).
fleas, the biting and suck the blood of substances introduced saliva. Dogs with allergic predisposition react with intense itching. In this case the best treatment is prevention. The market has many shampoos, collars and pipettes are some good and some bad. Before buying a product must take into account the environment where the pet lives and whether or not to an infestation because it will depend on the product to use.
other hand, ticks are parasites that were known since antiquity. In fact, there are writings of the first century BC, which referred to ticks. They are parasitic mites that suck the blood of reptiles, birds and mammals. Mammals mainly attract to ticks for their warmth and smell.
not only pets suffer infestations of ticks in the field, in highly infested areas, such as a cow can lose up to 100 liters of blood, which leads to a picture of anemia in animals but may not be the only problem and that ticks can transmit bacterial, viral and parasitic diseases.
Eduardo de la Fuente (left) and Pedro Romaguera (right) during the busy veterinary and pet section, photographed at the studios of Radio Marratxí.
usually preferred places where they attach ticks in dogs and occasionally in cats is where the skin is thinner mainly in the head, nose, ears, armpits, English and between the toes. Ticks cling to the body of the dog in the parts that rub against vegetation when walking, hungry, where they hope to get your new host.
Ticks have a peculiar reproductive behavior, the male goes in search of the female subject is in an area of \u200b\u200bthe skin of a warm-blooded host such as a dog, if the adult female has ingested enough blood host of fertilization and, once fertilized the female will lay eggs falls to the ground where between 2,000 and 4,000 eggs in a crack, crevice or under a stone. The female dies soon after spawning. Eggs can float in water or dispersed in the rain. To hatch need a proper temperature and humidity. In theory, the life cycle is completed in 20 weeks, but in practice it can take between 2 and 4 years. An adult tick can survive more than 2 years without feeding.
The best treatment is prevention. In the market there is lots of necklaces, pipettes and shampoos, some good and some bad. Before purchasing any product should properly by a professional advice and that depending on the infestation, environment and breed of animal, or vary the products to use.
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