Vacuum Cleaners: Best Weapon Against Fleas

No matter what type of pet you own, there is one thing all pet owners have in common; our war against fleas. A vacuum cleaner is the best weapon you can have in your arsenal to fight the war against fleas. Not too use on your pet, but on the soft surfaces in your home. A vacuum cleaner destroys adult fleas and flea eggs in all stages of their development.

Pet owners spend a fortune waging war against fleas, both to prevent our pets from becoming infested with fleas and after the fact, trying to get our pets free of fleas. We diligently bathe our pets in flea preventing shampoos, we use Frontline spot flea killers, flea sprays, flea collars, flea repellents. We use chemical as well as natural weapons in our war to keep our pets happy and free of fleas.

We lose the war because our common enemy, the flea, can out distance and out produce any collar, spray, spot treatment or natural preventative measures we use on our pets. An adult flea can jump up to 200 times it's body length. When the bath water or flea spray first touches your pet, that flea jumps off it's host and onto dry ground, like your carpeting, curtains or furniture. One female flea can lay up to 500 eggs in her lifetime, usually on your pet, but if that flea that jumped off your pet and into your carpeting lays her eggs before jumping again, you will have a batch of about 20 flea eggs in your carpeting waiting to hatch. When an adult flea lays eggs on your pet, those flea eggs roll off your pet and onto pet bedding, carpeting and furniture. When the flea eggs hatch, the flea begins it search for blood, again jumping up to 200 times it's body length, which could lead that one flea to any area of your home.

Using your vacuum cleaner on carpeting, cloth furniture and draperies on a regular basis will kill fleas in all stages of their lives, from the flea eggs to the adult flea. Passing through a vacuum cleaner kills 96 percent of adult fleas and 100 per cent of flea eggs. The vacuum cleaner's brush damages the waxy outer layer of the flea and eggs, and without that waxy armor, fleas become dehydrated and die. Good news for you and your pet.