Vacuum your home frequently and seal vacuum bags before
disposing.
Wash the bedding of your dog weekly in warm soapy water.
This is where fleas usually breed.
Bathing your pet weekly with a mild dog shampoo prevents
flea invasion.
Use cedar shampoo for your dog, and put cedar oil in
their sleeping mats. Cedar will repel fleas and other
insects.
Fleas are attracted to dry skin, so to avoid it, give
your dog Linatone oil mixed with its food. Excessive
shampooing should be avoided.
A mixture of brewer's yeast and garlic, available in
powder or tablet form can be given in small doses to your
pet. This creates a certain odor in pets, and fleas are
surely to avoid them.
Fresh or dried pennyroyal leaves is a natural flea
repellent. Use this in carpets to avoid the abundance of
fleas in the home. Do not use it if you have small
children around, as this could be toxic.
A mixture of 60 ml of lavender oil with 2.8 liters of
rock salt can also be placed in areas where dogs usually
come in contact with and this solution could also be used
to wash your dog.
Planting marigolds in the yard is helpful too, it repels
certain types of bugs as well as fleas.
Boiled lemon or orange peel in water can be used as a
dip for dogs and can be used too to soak in dog bedding
for a few hours, then washed with warm soapy water.
Lukewarm water with little shampoo and detergent is a
good way to prevent fleas. A dog's body may be dipped into
the solution for fifteen minutes and then rinsed. This
only works if flea infestation is light.
The natural way of treating fleas is effective only if the
level of flea infestation is average to very few. This method
usually is recommended for prevention only.
Different commercially available products with
chemical contents:
Advantage.
Active ingredient is imidacloprid. This is a flea poison, from
Bayer. It is in a liquid form and applied to the skin, at the
back of the dog, and works for about a month. This works by
upsetting the nervous system of fleas when they come in
contact with the liquid. This product is fast acting and is
not absorbed into the internal organs and bloodstream of the
dog.
Studies indicate that this product is highly toxic to fleas
and other insects as well. A dog will be free from fleas in
just a couple of days.
Ingredients are: imidacloprid -- a chloronicotinyl
nitroguanidine integrated from the nitromethylene class of a
compound. This joins the nicotinyl receptor sites of insects,
thus upsetting normal nerve transmission which causes death.
A set of two vials costs 15-20 dollars.
Frontline.
This product is very similar to Advantage, but is not water
soluble, so alcohol is needed to wash it off. This can safely
be used in pups, dogs, cats and kittens.
Fipronil works as a nervous transmission interruptor, which
causes quick death to fleas and ticks. It is proven to kills
96% of fleas for the first two hours and 100% within 24 hours.
Ticks die sooner than they attach themselves to the host.
Fipronil is from the new phenylpyrazole class.
Very effective and can be considered safe, so long as dogs
are not allergic to fipronil.
Knockout. Performs like Frontline and is as effective, but can
only be used in dogs. Active ingredients: Pyriproxyfen:
21[1-methyl-2-(phenoxyphenoxy)ethyoxy] pyridine....0.05%
cyclopropanecarboxylate 2.00% inert ingredients 97.95% Also
has NYLAR, which is flea growth regulator.
Biospot. This is for topical application and kills up to 75
percent of fleas, eggs, and ticks. It also is a good repellent
of mosquitoes and works for about a month. Temporarily, at
times, it turns white hair to yellow. This can not be used in
cats and contains permethrins and IGR.
Proban (cythioate) and Prospot (Fenthion) While not to be used in cats, they are widely used in
dogs. This is absorbed by the bloodstream and fleas die due to
the poison that is present in the blood. For it to work, it
requires the bitting of fleas. There are certain conditions to
be considered though. You are injecting a small dose of poison
into your dog's body and side effects are not known. Then this
does not help if a dog has flea allergy, and can not risk to
be bitten.
Generally fleas abound during the summer months, when it is
their breeding season. These commercial products can greatly
help in fighting heavy flea infestation and needed where
severe invasion occurs. However, it is always best to consult
with your veterinarian as the choice of flea control will
greatly depend on your life style.
Jay is the web owner of www.dog-training-tips.org Dog Training Tips, a website that provides information and resources on dog training, puppy training, and more.
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