Summer in Southern Africa is now approaching fast and now various animal sicknesses become more prevalent with the warmer weather. Do for instance take steps against ticks,which can be very dangerous at worst and also cause abcesses or other irritations to both dogs and cats.
I have found that the best method to cut down on ticks and fleas ,its a good idea to use a shampoo specially made for dogs that contain dips that help control ticks.Some cat owners are lucky enough to be able to wash their cats and can use a similar method.If not then rub pet powders specially formulated for cats and difficult dogs into the hair and try to get it as close to the skin as possible.Do examine your pet at regular intervals and if possible remove ticks that have not yet firmly held to the animals.I use a steel comb with extremely fine teeth for more hairy animals.
I have never liked dips that are dropped onto the dogs backs which are supposed to give residual protection up to seven days or longer. My family were farmers in the past and then experiments were carried out by experimental institutes that came up with the startling results that all those dips did was breed resistant ticks over a period of time and then to control that menance you would have to use even stronger dips.For our cattle in those dayss it was recommended that we use ECTAFOS(WHICH IS NOT ON THE MARKET ANY MORE) AS IT KILLED TICKS ON CONTACT AND THEN FOR ANOTHER FOUR HOURS THERE AFTER NOT AT ALL.
To fully under stand how the risidual dips work .The first ticks that come in contact with it are killed,how ever as it becomes weaker some of the last ticks to climb onto the animal survice and then breed with a resistence to that particular dip and then their offspring are a worse menance than now over time.
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