Vet’s advice Neil McIntosh SG’s gundog health expert
The two that most people worry about are fleas (which jump on the dog, suck blood for a short while, then lay eggs, which fall off into the environment) and ticks (which crawl on the dog, attach their mouthparts to the skin, suck blood for two weeks, then fall off to lay eggs in the environment). Both can be readily controlled.
Fleas
Fleas evolved from scorpion flies during the Jurassic period some
