Protecting Your Pets from Scorpions

Scorpions can be a grave danger to your pets, but you can take preventive measures to protect them. Here are some of the most useful techniques to ensure the safety of your pets from the poison sting of this pest.

Preventing Sickness After a Sting

If your pet has been stung already, you must take immediate action. Here are the steps to prevent further injury or sickness to your pet after a scorpion sting.

Protecting Your Pet’s Life

Call your vet immediately and schedule an emergency appointment. If the sting is poisonous, your pet may have less than 24 hours to live.

Immediate Action to Take

Your pet may be writhing in pain. This will only advance poison if the sting is poisonous. Restrict your pet’s movement immediately. Calm it down until the initial shock wears off. If you have a cone collar, put it on your pet to keep it from biting or licking the wound. Create a paste from water and baking soda, part the fur, and apply this mixture directly to the wounded area to help calm your pet down.

Preventing a Sting in the First Place

There are many ways that you can prevent a sting from happening in the first place. Prevention is worth a pound of cure, so take the following into serious consideration.

Keeping Scorpions Away From Your Property

Scorpions follow their food source, which are, believe it or not, other small pests that will infest your home as well. If you prepare for other infestations such as ants or crickets, you reduce your risk of scorpion stings to your pets. However, if scorpions are around your real estate already, it is essential that you find the nest and kill the eggs that may be hatching there. This may require professional fumigation.

When Scorpions Are Likely to Attack

Your pets are at the greatest risk during the spring time, when the food sources of scorpions will naturally make their way back to your home if you do not take measures to push them back. You should also pay great attention to your surroundings when you take your pets on walks during the spring on forest trails, in parks with trees, etc.

Make sure that your pet vaccinations are always up to date, and ask your veterinarian if the shots protect your pet against scorpion venom. For effective Phoenix scorpion control, you can reply on Preventive Pest Control. Call (623) 582-9014 to schedule a FREE consultation.