Flea prevention keeps your pet healthy. Your pet won't pick up tapeworms or have flea bites that cause itching misery and flea allergy dermatitis. In addition, you can help prevent diseases that fleas and ticks carry such as Lyme Disease, ehrlichia, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tick paralysis. Don't let your pet get flea bitten when modern medicine has provided wonderfully effective and safe flea products.

Flea & tick preventatives can help your pet avoid:

• Flea allergies
• Hot spots
• Biting adult fleas
• Skin infections
• Tapeworms
• Lyme Disease
• Ehrlichia
• Rocky Mountain spotted fever
• Fleas and ticks in your home

If you want your home to be flea-free, use a flea prevention medication. For those with year-long flea problems, use flea preventative medication monthly. This can include homes in the South, homes in the North with barns or garages where fleas survive the cold, and homes with pets that have serious flea-allergy problems.

Preventing fleas and ticks is infinitely wiser, and cheaper, than controlling them once they are a problem. Flea and tick medications that contain insect growth regulators (IGR) stop eggs and larva from developing into fleas. These are examples of flea preventatives:

• K9 Advantix
• Advantage
• Frontline Plus
• Program Liquid
• Program Tabs
• Sentinel Rx
• Revolution Rx

Adult fleas are only 1-5% of the flea population. It's the adult fleas that do bloodsucking damage and spread tapeworms, so it's important to eliminate them; but at least 95% of the flea population exists as eggs, larvae, and pupae that hide in carpets and yards. Using flea medications with insect growth regulators (IGRs) stops 95% of the flea problem.