Summer is here and your family is probably spending a lot more time in your backyard. The kids are running through the sprinkler and kicking the ball around on the lawn. You are hosting barbeques for neighbors, family and friends. The last thing you want is for someone to step on a landmine of doggy doodoo or have an infestation of flies spoil the food. Enjoy a clean yard this summer by hiring Scoopy Doo’s of Longmont for affordable pet waste service.
Besides the foul mess, smell and potential transmittable diseases in our pet’s waste, it also attracts unwanted flies. Fresh animal feces is the preferred breeding site for houseflies and also one of their top food sources. Flies consume liquified food with their proboscis, then regurgitate and excrete wherever they land next- and if that place is on food or utensils, pathogens can be transmitted to people. According to the World Health Organization:
“Flies have been shown to pick up and carry many pathogens (viruses, bacteria, protozoa, eggs and cysts of helminths, etc.) both externally, on their mouthparts, the body and leg hairs, and sticky pads of the feet, and internally in their crop and intestinal tract…The germs on the surface of the fly often survive only for a few hours,… whereas pathogens can live for several days in the crop and gut of the fly.”
Houseflies are suspected of having a role in transmitting over 65 diseases, including bacterial infections (such as salmonella), viral infections, skin and eye infections, and intestinal worms. Clearly, we want to do everything possible to avoid attracting these disgusting insects to our backyard parties!
Scoopy Doo’s in Longmont will keep your yard clean and significantly reduce unwelcome flies with our pet waste service- call us to set up a visit before your next barbeque!
