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100% Flea Control (Part 1)


Pet professionals such as groomers (who deal with dozens of flea-infested animals every day) don't have fleas in their own homes. What do they know that you don't know? Nothing, if you read these articles about flea control.

The Enemy:

Fleas are hardy and determined: designed to be uncrushable and unfathomable. And they have to be dealt with in a ruthless manner.

Life Cycle of Fleas

Never Underestimate the Opposing Force

Fleas are hardy and determined. They CAN be killed, but their resilience and 4-stage life-cycle make it more difficult than most people want to believe. Additionally, the fact that fleas don't spend most of their time on the pet makes the problem of locating them and wiping them out harder still.

Their most resilient stage, the tiny hibernating cocoon, can live in your environment over a year without feeding and is protected by an impenetrable shell. It is this stage that survives most treatments and returns to breed and re-populate year after year like a cruel sequel to a horror movie.

One "hatched" cocoon can produce over a trillion offspring in her 9 month adult stage life-span. This army is able to "raise the dead" to replace any mortalities you might inflict and continue to fight year after year.

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