Fleas and Ticks

Fleas and Ticks

Fleas and Ticks Will Endangers Your Cats and Dogs Health

 * Fleas and ticks endangers the health of your pet and your family's health.

Fleas

Crowds fleas is one general health problem in dogs and cats. Almost every dog and cat fleas will be surrounded by this one time during his life. Small bug that nearly not visible and annoying. They make daily life became miserable by disrupting your household with bites and scratches.

There are two types of fleas, dog fleas and cat fleas. Cat fleas more commonly found and can live and breed in dogs and cats and can bite humans and other small animals. This means that cats often become the source of this fleas problem when cats and dogs maintained a home.

Fleas Season

Fleas season was once thought to start from late April until the end of November. But now the fleas are a problem throughout the year, with heating and carpets that they breed throughout the year in your home. Despite the cold outside

Always warm and quite tasty in the house which supports the fleas population. Therefore, pets should be given medication on a regular basis throughout the year.

Flea’s Life Cycle

Although adult fleas cause all the problems associated with fleas, they only represent 5% of the total population. Another 95% contain fleas life stages of the immature developing in environments such as pet bedding / mattresses, carpets, furniture etc.. This fleas cycle can be up to several months or fastest three weeks, depending on the temperature and humidity.

• Egg Stage - A female flea can lay 50 eggs per day on your pet. The eggs are not sticky, they easily fall from your pet and hatch in two to five days. If a female can lay about 1,500 eggs in her life.
• Larvae Stage - After hatching, the larvae will shy away from light to dark areas around your house and eat from fleas dirt (dried blood that is released from fleas). Larvae will grow, molting twice and make the larva where they grow into pupae.
• Pupae Stage - Long this stage an average of 8 to 9 days. Depending on weather conditions, population explosions typically occur 5 to 6 weeks after the weather began to warm. Pupae stage the most resistant in the environment and can continue to be active up to one year.
• Adult Stage - Adult fleas out of her cocoon when they're warm, vibration and carbon dioxide, which indicates there is a host in the vicinity. After they jump to the host, adult fleas will marry and start a new cycle. All the cycle can be gone for 3-4 weeks.

There are several drugs that can break this cycle by killing adult fleas before they lay eggs. Then continue to provide continuous protection against fleas.

How the Influence of Fleas on Pets

This fleas not only make your pet itchy, but also can make your pet really sick. Conscious of how this can interfere with fleas your pet. Maybe a bit hard to see these fleas but fleas will feel its presence, especially your pets.

The first step to terminate lice infestation is to know its existence. Disease that can be caused lice infestation can make your pet is not happy. Imagine how uncomfortable your pet caused by this bug.

Warning Sign

Be aware of warning signs below, which indicates the existence of fleas on your pet.

Flea dirt - black dirt on your pet or flea dirt on her bed, which is dried blood, was thrown by adult fleas. There are two easy ways to check out this flea dirt.

Lice comb, available in stores or clinics. Comb your pet, be sure to comb through her hair to the skin. If there is a black stain on the comb when appointed, was the possibility of dirt stains the lice. If there are fleas on the comb, drowned them into soap water before they jump back into your pet. To distinguish whether the black stains flea dirt or not, put the stain on the tissue paper and give some water. Black flea dirt that will become taxable when red or brown water.

Examination with white paper towels. Place white paper under your pet and rub into hair. If black spots appear, they may be flea dirt, give some water to ensure the difference.

Scratching - your pet will be agitated, disturbed, and if surrounded by excessive scratching fleas.

If one of these signs appear, check with your veterinarian. You can eliminate existing fleas and prevent the return of your pet they interfere with the use of anti-lice medications.

Diseases Associated with Fleas

Fleas can affect your pets health as below:

• Flea Allergy Dermatitis (FAD) - Allergic skin diseases fleas. When a flea bites your pet, he was entering the saliva into the skin. Your pet will develop allergic reaction to saliva / saliva (FAD) which causes a very itchy itch. Not just your pet will scratch or bite-bite in the area over the tail, groin or back, the bump will also appear around the neck and back.
• Ribbon Worm - Dipylidium canium. Tapeworm (tapeworm) disbursed by the fleas larvae stage within the time pet food. The eggs grow in life that are not active in the development of this fleas. If this fleas in ingested by the pets when grooming, tapeworms and continuously develop into adult worms in the intestines of your pet.
• Anemia - occurred in the young, the elderly or the sick even if too many fleas that suck their blood. Symptoms include anemia, pale gums, lethargy and listless on your pet.

You can reduce the risk of fleas problem this can be done with medication on a regular basis are available for your pets. If you believe your pet suffer from this problem, check with your doctor immediately.

Prevention

Coupled with medication, the steps below can be done to prevent fleas your pet to attack you:

• Sucking Vacuum use – Frequently suck in the area where your pet just to visit, especially in the car if you travel frequently, carpeted areas and furniture are frequented by your pet so that all ticks, including eggs and pupae cleaned it as much as possible.
• Washing - Wash your pet beds, mattresses, blankets and other items with hot water if possible.
• Environmental Spraying - There are several kinds of sprays / sprays are available which aim to kill fleas in the surrounding environment.

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Healthy Cat

Healthy Cat

The Characteristics of a Healthy Cat

 * Healthy Cat * Surely as a cat lover you will definitely want to know what are the characteristics of healthy cat. Or you feel you must have a healthy cat. Hmm .... Not necessarily! may appear healthy but inside it. Who knows?

The following are the characteristic of a healthy cat:

1. Around the eyes of a cat should be clean, with no dirt on it, without spot, there should be no irritation especially not to get out pus or lenders.
2. Cat's ear can hear well without interference.
3. Cat ear health can also be seen from the increasingly frequent cat shook his head. If often shook means there's something wrong with the cat ears.
4. Cat ears should also be clean with cats not often scratch it.
5. Mandatory cat hair clean and do not fall out.
6. White teeth there is no dirt like plaques.
7. Pink gums and clean.
8. Certainly not smooth skin, wounds or contain parasite.
9. Anus was clean and there is no visible dirt.
10. When defecate not diarrhea.
11. Stomach is not bloating.
12. Claw is not damaged while not torn or broken nails.
13. Cat's breath is not audible cough.
14. In addition, cats are also not out of breath a strange snoring.
15. And much more.

Yes only 15, still one wants to add?

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Take Care of Kittens

Take Care of Kittens

How to Take Care of Kittens - The tips and Guide

*How to take care of kittens* Kittens after birth should be give a natural foods (breast milk) within 10-20 minutes. Do not forget to also feed the mother cat food and drinking water when he was feeding their children.

Kitten can eat solid foods at the age of two to three weeks. Set aside money to provide them with commercial food or commercial milk special for kitten. When growing times avoid to give cow's milk or goat's milk because it still can not completely digested because it contains lactose.

One of the problems of cat owners is the nature of the cats that always defecate carelessly. To anticipate this at the earliest then provided two trays for the dirt and replace the trays regularly during the day. Kittens are naturally going to throw dirt there at the age of three to four weeks.
For a nursing mother cat should or may be given worm medicine every month. And for their own kittens should be given de-worming every two weeks. Starting at age two weeks to three months old.

Your kitten can be weaned from the age of eight weeks. At this stage the mother cat will not always be with her son to be given solid food.

So that the cat will not act aggressively to humans. So the kitten had to contact the man at the age of at least two to seven weeks.

So the cat does not bother you, Give a lot of new stimuli that do not threaten the course. Let's say the sounds as well as meet with other animals.

Do not forget to find out the nature of the kitten, so you can guess his mood:

• If the kittens half closed his eyes and ears turned aside, it signifies the kitten is being felt comfortable.
• If the dilated pupils that means being surprised.
• If the direct kitten ears and eyes open wide, it means the kitten wants to play.
• If looking up and moves her head back, it probably means someone is approaching too close.
• If it directing it’s ear, turning it to back and also discourage pupils. Be alert, the kitten was ANGRY.
  

May help you in caring for your kitten.

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- Adult Cat Feeding

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Adult Cats Feeding

Adult Cats Feeding

Adult Cats Feeding Tricks

*Adult Cats Feeding* This time my posts will explain the tricks to feed an adult cat. Maybe so many people have known about this cat article. But I will explain ... maybe there is a cat lover who reads this post does not know that there are differences between the feeding child's cats and adult cats.

How to feed the adult cat was almost the same with all types of cats. Whether it's Persian cats, Angora cat or Maine Coon cats. All the same ... but that would not be like feeding the dog.

Unlike the dog which is a group of animals and loved to compete. Especially when getting food ... they will eat it greedily. Try as much food into their stomachs. Unlike the cat is a single animal hunter and not a group like a dog. Adult cats will not eat with the number of lots. From various studies, cats even prefer to eat in a few occasions.

So if you feed the cat once. So adult cat will spend 3 times as possible in the opportunity.

So as an owner, it would be better to feed an adult cat with a mixture of moist and dry foods. The purpose to give the dry foods is cats can eat any time when they want. Whereas moist food can provided a controlled amount of say in the morning, afternoon, or evening.

Oh yes! but try to remember not to feed an adult cat in the middle of the night. Why? because we know in the night we usually confine the cat in the house so do not go everywhere. is to prevent adult cat pee or throw dirt.

Because adult cats are usually throwing dirt one or two hours after they eat
One tips again! If you feed the cat. Divide and move each cat when you feed them. So that the dominant cat does not grab the cat's food that weak.

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