How to Keep Bed Bugs from Biting Your DogBed bugs prefer human hosts because they have difficulty extracting blood through fur. Nonetheless, you may find them clinging to the smooth part of your dog's belly or hiding around his bed. Any warm blooded animal living in your home can act as a magnet to draw bed bugs out of hiding and lure them to areas they normally wouldn’t go. Bedbugs will happily cling to pet fur and hitch a ride to your couch, recliner or bed. For this reason, pets play an important role in spreading infestations throughout the home. Here's how to stop the cycle.
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Step One: Get an Elevated Dog Bed
Simply encouraging your dog to sleep or relax above ground level can make it more difficult for bed bugs to make contact, but they can still climb up bed legs.
Step Two: Use Interceptors to Keep Bed Bugs from Crawling up Bed Legs
Bed leg interceptors are coaster like devices that have a smooth outer chamber that's too slippery for bedbugs to climb. You'll find bugs stuck in the outer rim, unable to proceed toward the host.
Step Three: Glue the Interceptors to the Bed Legs
Here's a great way to ensure that your dog doesn't move the bed and disrupt the placement of interceptors. Use clear, super adhesive glue to fuse interceptors to bed legs.
Step Four: Get an Organic Contact Killer that's Also a Repellent
Some sprays are designed to be contact killers, but they don't keep battling bugs when dry. Other sprays are designed to kill when wet and repel for long periods when dry. Get a spray that does both! Dr. Ben's Evictor is a safe but aggressive organic formula that can be applied to humans, dogs, couches, carpets and furniture. It contains hydrated silica to dry out the insect's exoskeleton and cedar oil to shut down the insect's breathing pores. It also dehydrates and dissolves insect eggs, larvae and pupae on contact. This product leaves behind a fresh cedar aroma to repel bedbugs and mites from sprayed territory. It's a nice skin repellent for biting insects, a safe flea treatment for dogs and a popular leave-on treatment for skin mites. This product won't stain clothing or furniture.
How to Get Bed Bugs out of Your Couch
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