FLEA TIPS

Bathes:
For dogs that have become heavily infested with fleas shampoo with dawn liquid dishwashing detergent. Leave heavy suds on for 10 minutes then rinse and shampoo with your regular dog shampoo or something calming and soothing such as Oat Mella Dog Shampoo. We purchase this shampoo at RevivalAnimal.com
We find this a safe and effective method.

Yard Control:
One method is to use Hartz Flea & Tick Shampoo in the YARD SPRAYER with a little dawn dishwashing liquid and a dab of bleach for each application. This can help up to a month and in infested situations need to do every week. Too much bleach can kill your grass. We don't recommend this shampoo for Chows skin.

Another method is a powder product 5% Sevin Dust or the liquid for the sprayer or both. Dust can be used on the dogs and their bedding. This product can be purchased at K-Marts and Wal-Mart stores.

Natural Remedies:
This works great for around the house foundation to keep fleas from traveling indoors -  also using outdoors to help control the yard becoming infested.
The secret is WALNUT LEAVES and/or SHELLS. We have pallets covered with plywood for their beds out doors and that our dogs are commonly allergic to cedar, we can put the walnut shells and leaves under their pallets to repel fleas. Walnut shells even make attractive flower bed cover instead of bark dust. Puppies and some dogs may want to chew on the shells so they may need placed in areas where the dogs cannot get to them. I have not heard of any health issues from that but I suppose they could choke.

We recommend using the Dawn Dishwashing Liquid in the Spring. After 3 days use Frontline Plus first and follow every month in using Frontline Original (Top Spot). We also recommend the natural remedy using the Walnut shells and/or leaves.

Updated 10/15/2008

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