Flea Control in the Home and Yard: Keeping Your Pet’s Habitat Flea Free

Flea control doesn’t just mean treating your dog. Flea treatments for your home and yard are just as essential in keeping parasites in check.

To deal with a flea infestation, not only do you need to kill the fleas on your pet, you also need to treat the habitat your pet lives in. While adult fleas reside mostly in your animal’s skin and hair, the eggs and larvae of fleas will be found wherever your pet roams. This means that even after dealing with the infestation on your furry friend, the fleas may return soon. Here’s a short guide to flea treatments for your home and yard.

Indoor Treatment

Before you start treating your home with any sort of flea removal product, there are some regular household procedures you can do to make your job easier. Vacuuming your carpets daily can remove half of the flea eggs in your home. Make sure to vacuum under drapes, near furniture, and where your dog sleeps. When you dispose of the vacuum bag, make sure to seal it in a plastic bag.

The next step is to use a product that will both kill adult fleas and stop younger fleas from developing. These products come in various forms, such as flea sprays, foggers, and carpet powders. Make sure you check all the health warnings of these products, making sure they work with your situation. Things to consider are asthma, children, presence of other pets such as fish and birds, and allergies.

After treating your home, make sure you wash your pet’s bedding at least weekly, and continue to treat it with a flea killer and growth inhibitor.

Flea control is an ongoing process. Make sure to keep every place your pet goes is clean and well looked after.

Outdoor Treatment

Since you can’t really use a fogger or flea spray on your entire backyard, you’ll have to resort to different methods of keeping fleas out of your backyard. One thing you can do is try to keep your dog out of dark, moist areas where fleas will thrive. This can be under decks or porches, or anywhere particularly shady.

Disturbing the flea habitats will keep them from getting out of hand. Be sure to rake away leaf piles, grass clippings, or any other organic debris.

Raccoons and other pets will carry fleas into your yard. Try to keep them away from your pet.

Remember that in addition to treating your pet’s environment, you should treat your pet as well. Fleas are tough creatures, and a comprehensive plan of attack is needed to get them away and keep them away.

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Hartz® Extends Partnership with Examiner.com for Social Media Program

The Hartz Mountain Corporation has announced they will continue their relationship with Examiner.com. Focusing on pet health, the program has created word of mouth marketing through the creation of original and authentic pet care content and social media conversations. The focus of these programs is to produce an environment that is contextually relevant for both the marketer and the consumer.

 

“Every Examiner Connect program is based on a custom strategy, initiating a process of engagement targeted to specific Examiners and is designed to encourage content creation around predetermined themes. In this case, pet health,” said Tom Woerner, senior vice president of national sales for Examiner.com. “The Hartz® program has been a great example of how earned media created amplifies the value of this offering.”

 

The initial campaign was centered on flea and tick prevention and generated more than $600,000 in earned media from social media actions and original content. The next phase of the campaign will focus on pet dental health and will highlight Hartz Crunch ‘n Clean® dog biscuits and treats.

 

Hartz® is the latest brand to participate in the Examiner Connect marketing program created by Examiner.com, which is based on the unique relationship that Examiner.com has developed with its 72,000 content producers, in this case, more than 2000 pet and pet health writers.

 

Other successful Examiner Connect programs include brands such as IAMS, The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, American Family Insurance and HGTV.

 

For more information about Examiner.com and Examiner Connect, please visit www.examiner.com/advertise.

 

About Examiner.com

 

Launched in April 2008, Examiner.com serves 240 markets across North America and is the insider source for local. Examiner.com feeds the passion the local community has for its favorite interests, activities and establishments by connecting them with credible and informed contributors who write and share information with the passion and insights only a local insider can provide. Examiner.com is a division of the Clarity Digital Group, LLC, wholly owned by The Anschutz Company, a Denver-based investment company with a broad array of assets in print and digital media, live sports and entertainment, hospitality, film production and exhibition and wind energy development.

 

About Hartz®

 

The Hartz Mountain Corporation line of pet products was born in 1932 with packaged bird food, and expanded through the 1950s into aquatic supplies as well as dog and cat products, most notably the Hartz flea & tick collar—still the #1 selling flea & tick collar for both cats and dogs. Based in Secaucus, New Jersey, The Hartz Mountain Corporation has been making pet products with love, for people like you who love their pets- for over 80 years.  Hartz Crunch ‘n Clean® is a line of great tasting dog biscuits, dog treats, and cat treats with DentaShield®, a proprietary tartar-fighting ingredient.  Hartz® has over 1,500 innovative products which are sold through 40,000 U.S. and Canadian retail outlets.

 

Hartz®, Crunch ‘n Clean™ and other trademarks are trademarks of The Hartz Mountain Corporation.