Fleas and Your Dog
The natural way:
• Vacuum your home frequently and closing 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 giving your dog Linatone oil mixed with their food. Use Excessive shampooing should be avoided.
• A mixture of yeast s of beer and garlic, available in powder form or tablets can be administered in small dose for your pet. This creates a certain odor in pets, and fleas are surely to avoid them.
• The 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 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 into contact with this solution and also could be used to wash your dog.
• wonders of planting in the yard is helpful too, it repels certain types of errors, and fleas.
• Boiled lemon peel or orange in the water can be used as a dip for dogs and can also be used to soak in dog beds for a few hours, then washed with warm water and soap.
• Lukewarm water with little shampoo and detergent is a good way to prevent fleas. The body of a dog 'S can be immersed in the solution for fifteen minutes and then rinse. This only works if flea infestation is light.
The way natural to treat fleas is effective only if the level of flea infestation is average to very few. This method is generally recommended for prevention only.
Different commercially available products with chemical contents:
• Advantage. The active ingredient is imidacloprid. This is a flea poison, Bayer. What is in liquid form and applied to the skin at the back of the dog, and works for about a month. This works because it alters the nervous system of fleas when they come contact with the liquid. This product is fast acting and is not absorbed into the bloodstream and internal organs 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 nitromethylene kind of a compound. This binds to receptors nicotinyl of insects, thus upsetting normal nerve transmission, causing death.
A set of two vials costs 15-20 dollars.
• Frontline. This product is very similar to the advantage, but is not soluble in water, so alcohol is needed for washing. This security can be used in puppies, dogs, cats and kittens.
Rejection efficiency lasts up to four months.
The active ingredients include: Fipronil 5-amino -1 - (2, 6-dichloro-4 [trifluoromethyl] phenyl) -4 - (1, R, S) - (trifluoromethyl0sulfinyl)-1H-pryazole-3-carbonitrile 0.29 % 99.71% inert ingredients.
Fipronil works as a switch of nerve transmission, causing rapid death to fleas and ticks. It is proven that kills 96% of the fleas in the first two hours and 100% in 24 hours. Ticks die sooner than join the hosts. Fipronil is phenylpyrazole class again.
Very effective and can be considered safe, as long as dogs are not allergic to fipronil.
• Knockout. Performs like Frontline and is as effective, but only can be used in dogs. Active ingredients: Pyriproxyfen: 21 [1-methyl-2-(phenoxyphenoxy) pyridine] ethyoxy .... Cyclopropanecarboxylate 0.05% 2.00% 97.95% inert ingredients Nylar also, which is flea growth regulator.
• Biospot. This is for topical application and kills up to 75 percent of fleas, eggs and ticks. It is also a good repellant of mosquitoes and works for about a month. Temporarily, at times, turns white hair to yellow. This can not be used in cats and contains permethrins and IUGR.
• Proban (cythioate) and Prospot (fenthion). While not to be used in cats, which are widely used in dogs. This is absorbed by the bloodstream and fleas die from the poison that is in the blood. To be effective, requires that the bite of fleas. There are certain conditions considered however. You are injecting a small dose of poison in his body s dog side effects are not known. So this does not help if a dog has flea allergy, and can not run the risk of being bitten.
Generally fleas abound during the summer months, when it is their breeding season. These products trade can help in fighting heavy flea infestation and needed where severe invasion. However, it is always best to consult with your veterinarian as choice of flea control will depend largely on your lifestyle.
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