Flee and Tic med. for pets

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Hi all,

 

Just wondering what you all with pets do about flee and tic med. Is this bad to have it on the dog? We tell our son to not touch the dog for a couple days after she gets the medication. What do you all think, and or do about this topic?

 

C.P.

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Hi C.P.

 

The first year in the city with my black lab, I had a horrible issue with fleas. Never before moving to the city had my dog had trouble. I took care of it with frontline at that time and killed all the fleas in the house by using a light over a bowl of water at night.

 

However, this past year for my two black labs, I used a tick & flea recipe from a book I found at the library. I mixed it up once for the tick flea season and will make some more next year for my dogs. It worked very well for both dogs and no outbreak of fleas. It involved glycerin and some essential oils all gotten from the health food store.

 

The recipe was in one of the two books below, but I can't remember which one it was in:

 

The Good Earth Home & Garden Book by Casey Kellar

 

or

 

Natural Cleaning For Your Home: 95 Pure and Simple Recipes by Casey Kellar

 

 

 

Carolyn

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Thankyou, Thankyou, Carolyn,

 

I will go on a hound hunt for those books.

 

C.P.

[Chemar]

CP

yes, I agree to avoid pesticide chemicals under ALL circumstances (home, yard, pets etc)

 

there are many natural ways to control fleas and pests and some health stores even sell ready made products

 

(we used to use penny royal as a rub, but there are now health warnings about it being toxic to the pets liver if they injest it, and so i make a cinnamon oil spray instead....fleas hate it as do ants, roaches etc)