Fleas don't discriminate. They don't mind getting on your other dog and start biting them. Or sometimes, if they're bad enough, they'll bite you. They generally don't discriminate in that sense. Ticks are kind of the same way. Once they get into the house, they don't care who they feed on, as long as they're getting a meal.

You'll find fleas and ticks outside. That's where they start, and then they'll get on your pet when your pet goes outside. And then they'll take a meal from your pet, a blood meal, and then they'll jump off your pet into your home or your home environment. And that's how they get inside.

The big difference between them is their physical appearance. And the other big difference is going to be the diseases that fleas and ticks carry. And so they affect your pet in the sense that ticks can transmit tick-borne diseases like Lyme disease, or fleas can commonly cause secondary skin infections or things like that.

Fleas are dark brown, fast, and like to jump. They're smaller, maybe around the size of a pinhead. They're tiny, but they are visible to the naked eye, and then ticks kind of look like a distorted spider, maybe, is the best way to describe them. They've got a big old belly and itty bitty legs.

They're ectoparasites that take a blood meal from your pet for their reproductive life cycle, their day-to-day meals.