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The most widely accepted external parasite treatments currently available for pets are Frontline, Advantage, Revolution and Bio-Spot.

These brands of pet flea treatments all provide a month of guaranteed protection.

Advantage flea treatment kills fleas very quickly. The active ingredient, imidaloprid, acts as a nerve agent that fries their entire nervous system.

Within 12 hours of application, 98-100 percent of fleas are dead.

Brands such as Frontline flea and Advantage flea killers have nearly immediate results and long lasting protection.

If you have this treatment available, your animal shouldn’t suffer from flea discomfort.

You just need to pick a good flea medicine for your pet’s current situation.

Mites, or ticks as they are often called, are external parasites living off the blood of mammals, reptiles and birds.

Of the five common ticks in North America, the American dog tick is the best known.

As far as disease transmission to humans goes, ticks come in at a frightening second place to mosquitoes.

Ticks can transmit diseases such as Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, equine encephalitis, and ehrlichiosis.

Additionally, they are responsible for transmitting livestock and pet diseases.

Another type of mite living in the Rocky Mountains is the wood tick.

Some common weapons to combat them are tick collars and anti-flea/tick shampoos.

In order for tick control to be effective during tick season, ticks should be checked for and removed completely if found.

Part of the tick may be left in the wound, if you are not careful, thus increasing the likelihood of infection.

Unlike diseases passed by ticks, heartworm is transmitted by mosquitoes, and the larva then live in the bloodstream of the animal bitten by the mosquito.

The parasites go through several stages before becoming adults.

Once mature, the heartworms move to the heart to survive off of the blood supply.

Symptoms like coughing and difficulty in breathing may ensue, and the outcome of an untreated heartworm infestation is the heart failure of the host animal.

No owner would like to see their pet die of this terrible parasitic disease, fortunately treatment is available if the disease is caught early enough.

Interceptor for dogs is one such treatment, which also tackles hookworms and ascarid infections.

Another common infection that your dog may experience is kennel cough.

This is a form of bronchitis which can hit dogs hard, and readily spreads from one animal to another when many canines are held together in the same facility.

However, the infection can be treated with proper use of antibiotics, and it can even be prevented with vaccinating for canine adenovirus, distemper, parainfluenza, and bordetella.

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