Flea Control

A lot of people will stop their flea control during the winter months. They figure that since fleas need warm temperatures to breed that you are pretty safe during the colder months. Unfortunately they couldn’t be more wrong!

It is true that the majority of fleas and flea eggs that are caught outside will die off during the cold winter months, but not every flea will die.

Fleas don’t have a calendar. The don’t see that it is August and it is the middle of winter. All they know and understand is the temperature and humidity of their microenvironment. For most dogs and cats, this microenvironment includes your house.

Unless you are really energy conscious (or masochistic), I can bet that your house does not reach the same temperature as it does outside. If your house is as cold as the outside temperature, then I feel sorry for you and you have bigger problems than a few fleas. The rest of us with heated houses are unknowingly providing a perfect environment for fleas inside the house.

If the temperature in your house remains somewhere in the 20 degrees celsius range during winter, then fleas will keep breeding all year round. It might take them a little bit longer than it would in the summertime, but they will still breed.

So if you stop you flea control thinking you are safe, then you are setting yourself up for disaster. Small (or large) numbers of fleas will continue to survive and breed, setting themselves up nicely for a population explosion in the springtime.

Don’t set yourself up for a springtime flea disaster. Continue your flea control efforts all year round and you will be rewarded.

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