To avoid breathing in the dust you can scent or perfume it and its easier to avoid breathing it in. As Greta mentioned, the DE works well. I use it on the stray dogs; for it to be effective, the DE should be rubbed into the dogs’ coats and sprinkled on the bedding.
It has no odor but you don’t want to breathe in the dust. Make sure it is food grade.
What is different about the healthy raw fed dog that renders him intolerable to fleas? My dog is healthy and raw fed but used to eat crappy food and get vaccinated. After getting DE there are almost no fleas. I’m still working on it and dreading another hot summer and the possibility of fleas. She used to never get fleas until 2 yrs ago. She’s raw fed for 6mos.
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That is a tough question. It totally depends on your dog and her overall health. How old is she? You say she has had no vaccinations for two years. Was she vaccinated regularly before that? The fact that she is having a recurring flea problem indicates that she is not in optimal health.
Some dogs never can reach optimal health after being over vaccinated and fed commercial pet foods, unfortunately.
Help…..our border collie mix (10 yrs) just recently, after all these years, picked up ticks. We think it was from neighbors’ dogs next door. We’ve sprayed the yard, and will do so again. We’ve bathed her (twice already) with the tick shampoo. And now, we are switching to Advantix (from Frontline Plus) and put a tick collar on her.
I check her daily for ticks. We still find little ones (one or two). We are horrified at the thought that these critters are in the house–how do we check???
On the collar — since she is a border collie mix with thick fur and long hair, the collar does not really rest against the skin. Must it?
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Far more beneficial and safer to you and your dog, spray beneficial nematodes in your yard, dust the dog with DE (food grade diatomaceous earth). Make certain it is food grade and then apply sparsely and carefully to avoid inhaling by you and your dog.
NATURAL FLEA & TICK TREATMENT REMEDIES
Also a very safe, effective spray for ticks….
“Boil 500 grams of dried thyme with 1 liter of water and one sliced lemon for some minutes, let it run through a coffee filter and put it on a spray bottle, leave it in the fridge.
Spray the dog every day, and if you’re in “tickland”, before you get out.
All of these poisons you have just used are quite harmful not only to your pet but also to you and your family. They are neurotoxins, can cause liver toxicity, cancer and various other problems.
Might want to read this article….
Are ‘Spot-On’ Flea Killers Safe?”
It seems no matter what I do I am finding ticks on my dog. I give him 4 garlic (bug off)pills a day. He is 80lbs. I have an herbal collar on him and am using an herbal wipe every time he goes out and yet every morning I find one or two ticks attached to him.
We also when to the vet this week and he is Lyme positive. So my question is what else can I do? I think I had heard about adding apple cider vingera to his water may help. Does this mean that his immune system is not working well? I am open to all suggestions.
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How about grinding orange rinds and massaging the paste to the fur. Bathing her with a Cypermethrin 1% w/shampoo has given me very good result. Also you can dust the dog with anti-tick powders made with Permethrin 1%, before she goes out. We live in a tick infested area and in the rainy season I have to dust them with anti-tick powder every day before taking them out for a walk.
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If your concern is whether or not your dog’s immune system can keep your dog out of chronic stage for Lyme, the Tick List has great info to help you manage and treat Lyme. Your dog sounds like he does not have symptoms so his immune system is probably in good shape.
http://saluqi.home.netcom.com/ticklinks.htm
If your vet screened for Lyme with the Idexx Snap test which is done in-house usually, the test picks up antibodies. You need a strong immune system to produce antibodies.
Did your vet recommend the C6 test? Since the Snap does not tell you how infected your dog is, doing the next test is a good idea for Lyme management. It is the C6 test offered by Idexx Labs only. This test will tell you how much his immune system is working to fight Lyme since it is a quantitative test. If he is fighting hard, he may benefit from assistance with conventional therapy.
http://www.idexx.com/animalhealth/laboratory/c6/
We have two Great Pyrenees and both have their dew claws. Pyrs have double dew claws in the back that are attached to the bone and
removing them causes problems to the dog. This is unlike most other dogs with dew claws. I believe most other dogs’ dew claws are not attached and removing them does not impact their mobility. I am not aware of any Pyrs having problems caused by their dew claws. It may
happen, but it’s certainly not common.
Our dogs’ dew claws are quite floppy, but they have never gotten torn or caught on anything. We have to cut the nails more than their other claws because they don’t wear down on their own.
My impression is that the potential danger of torn dew claws is perhaps overstated. Especially if they are on the back legs and far enough up the leg not to get in the way.