Natural flea treatments?

Garlic can be both beneficial and detrimental to dogs. As you probably know, garlic is in the onion family and onions are toxic. Garlic, given at high concentrations, can be potentially harmful to your dog, but like many supplements and medications, is beneficial in low doses. It does, to some extent, help keep bugs off.

If you give garlic, you don't want to give it in high concentrations (such as garlic powder), and you want to give it based on your dog's body weight. Cookie and Treader would get very different garlic amounts, of course.

One product that we've used to great effect is a product called "Bug Band". They make a pump spray, pellets you can use around the yard, and the original bands that can be attached to a dog's collar or harness. They use an extract of geranium oil and citrus in their product, which is safe to use around animals. We've had great results keeping off ticks, fleas, chiggers, etc. during our camping trips.

Abby K-9 answered on 4/25/09. Helpful? / 0

This may seem a bit unusual, but I've tried it with very good effect. Sato, my first dog, slept on cedar chips. I would either get her a cedar filled dog bed, or, something I liked even better, I'd get old pillowcases and fill them with cedar bedding for small animals.
Sleeping on the cedar got the oils into her coat. When you brushed it back with your hand you could smell it. The cedar's a natural bug deterrent too.

Ellie answered on 6/22/09. Helpful? / 0