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Common Mistakes to Avoid When Using Advocate on Your Pet

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  Keeping your pets healthy and free from parasites is a top priority for any pet owner. Using Advocate For Dogs and Cats is a reliable way to protect your furry friends from fleas, heartworms, and other harmful parasites. However, many pet owners unknowingly make mistakes when applying this treatment, reducing its effectiveness. Let’s explore the most common mistakes to avoid so you can get the best results from Advocate. 1. Incorrect Application Technique One of the most common mistakes pet owners make is applying this  incorrectly. If the product isn’t applied directly to the skin, it won’t be absorbed properly. Tips: Part your pet’s fur so the treatment reaches the skin. Apply between the shoulder blades, where your pet can’t lick it off. Avoid spreading the product over multiple spots; use one concentrated area for maximum absorption. Proper application ensures that Advocate for Dogs and Advocate for Cats work effectively, providing full-body protection against fleas a...

Prevent Heartworms in Dogs by Understanding Their Life Cycle

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Dogs are the most loving creatures, yet they are more susceptible to getting a heartworm infection as compared to other pets. Heartworms are parasites that reside inside the dog’s body and infect the heart, lungs and vessels of his body. In Australia, every year the vets face a number of heartworm cases and the effects of them are adverse. Although heartworms can be prevented, it has to be done at an initial stage. If the canine already has an infection than the preventatives won’t work. To understand when the right time to prevent heartworms is, you must be aware of the entire life cycle of heartworms. The following steps will depict the life stages of heartworms: The lifecycle embarks by a female mosquito sucking the blood from an infected host and ingesting the immature larvae or microfilaria of heartworms. The microfilariae then become active in the mosquito’s mouth in approximately 2 weeks and grow into larvae. When the mosquito feeds on a host such as dog, it infects the dog with...