For millions of dogs and people, the tiny flea is a relentless enemy. The flea is a small, brown, wingless insect that uses specialized mouth parts to pierce the skin and siphon blood. When a flea bites your dog, it injects a little amount of saliva into the skin to prevent blood coagulation. many animals can have fleas without showing suffering, but an unfortunate number of dogs become sensitized to this saliva. In particularly allergic animals, the bite of a single flea will cause severe it...
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Commercial flea killing compounds can work if used properly but they are not the only alternative to stopping fleas. There are effective home remedies that work as well or better.

The life cycle of the flea has four different stages including the egg, larva, pupa and adult.

The adult flea uses your dog as a place to take its blood meals and breed. Fleas either lay eggs directly on the pet where they may drop off, or deposit eggs into the immediate surroundings around your home. Simply pu...

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By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Anne_Ming]Anne Ming

Dog mange is one of the most miserable afflictions that can strike your dog. It's a contagious and persistently itchy skin disease brought on by parasitic mites burrowing under the skin. It must be treated as soon as you detect the symptoms. Otherwise the mange only gets worse.

The symptoms of dog mange include continuous itching, hair loss, dry and thickened skin with crusty scales, dry and wrinkled skin, unpleasantly strong skin odor,...
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