Charlie: “Carl starts us off this morning from the Heights. He wants to know, how do I treat my yard for the fleas and other bugs but make it safe for my dogs?
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Tom: “Well to get rid of fleas, you get rid of the dog. But …
Charlie: “Nice.
Tom: “Most people don’t want to do that. Fleas have three stages. They have a little stage, a little baby stage, a kind of middle stage …
Charlie: “Wait a second, and then they have a big stage, right?
Tom: “Then they have a big stage. Okay. And so you have to treat them with different chemicals. Now you just don’t treat the yard. You have to treat the house. You have to treat the pet and you have to treat the yard. But let me say this very carefully, you do not treat the pet with the same thing you treat the yard. And you do not treat the house with the same thing you treat the yard. Or you will have a bunch of dead everything around your house.
But, you’ll have to talk, professionals do it all the time. You’ll have to go down a place where they have all the chemicals and you have to get the chemicals for the yard, the chemicals for the house and of course, your vet is probably the best place to go for your dog so you don’t hurt your dog.
Charlie: “Mm-hmm Indeed.