Flea and tick repellant

[jst]

What is a good flea and tick repellant for the dogs that is not to expensive. It looks like it is going to be a bad year for both.

[Calkins]

Not sure, I'd like to know too. I usually buy flea and tick collars but everytime I do my dogs get sick. They won't eat or drink for days at a time. We used to use flea and tick powder and it worked great but can't seem to find it anymore.

[Jason Waterhouse]

I use some stuff called seven dust you can buy it in the farm stores its a powder sprinkle it on the dogs and rub it in.You can sprinkle it around there dog house also.I beleive its usually used on vegatables and flowers but works on dogs i have been doing it for years and it work.I also use cedar shavings for bedding it will also repel fleas and ticks.

[blackpaws]

the stuff you squirt down their spines works good. you don't have to buy the expensive stuff. i buy mine at walmart and it's nott expensive. the product has to have the ingedient called PERMETHRINE in it or it won't work as well or at all. i usually try to put it on every month and it seems to do ok. my lab was having ticks all the time this spring already and i put that stuff on him a week ago and he hasn't had one since.

[JimE]

I have had the best luck with Happy Jack Novation collars if you can find them. Lion Country Supply has them.

[Arkansas Frog]

Wash your dog in Dawn dish washer soap. a friend put a table spoon full of clorox if 5 gal of drinking water. those flea collars will make a dog go deaf I have heard.

[nmplott]

search the ukc forums and search for beyer tree and shrub, its for trees but has the same stuff in other flea and tick but you buy it in a gallon for like 25 bucks

[Budd Denny]

7 dust here. I put it in there bedding also. Have heard of people having ill effects on there dogs but I've never had a problim.

[Poundhound]

I use the Frontline Plus each time I see them itching. It is a little spendy, but it does a great job. The dogs can be itching like crazy one day and not itching a bit the day after I put it on them. I had to buy a box of the "next recomended" stuff once. It worked but not as quick, took about 2 1/2 days for that stuff.

I usually have to pay about $40 a box, and it has three doses. The box says give them a dose every month, if I do my dogs once each summer they never itch the rest of the season. I have enough darn dogs I have to buy three boxes for a total of nine doses. Ouch ! ! !



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[cecil j.]

Forget sprayen em use Front Line down their back and accrost their shoulders and also puta sliver of garlice clove in their feed 1 time a week >For your self you might spray on DEET and eat some raw yellow or white oinon befor ya good too the woods that night ! If ya don`t have achole in your system, nor sodda in your system the oinon smell in your skinspoores will keep most mesquitoes from landing and drawing blood !They don`t like oinon !Nor much garlic either !

[Melanie Hampton]

search the ukc forums and search for beyer tree and shrub, its for trees but has the same stuff in other flea and tick but you buy it in a gallon for like 25 bucks

Yep... I finally broke down and tried it... Put it on the dogs twice last year and it seemed to keep them flea clear all year.. I think I might have found one or two ticks.. Just put it on the dogs last night and already they quit chewing on themselves...

I did 10 dogs 3 times with it, used it on my rosebushes and still have enough for probably 1 more dosing I don't think I spent more then $20.00 on it at Walmart..

[Shorty]

If you use the 7 Dust make sure it's 10%. The 5% 7 Dust doesn't work at all here where I live.

[cecil j.]

Keeps west nile away by mesquitoes not biteing ya and use it generousilly on your clothing too ! But front line absolutely is worth every penny it costs for a dog too be used on him or her !Mesquitos carry so many desesses and can infect a dog or man easelly/ do what ya need too do !

[Spokerider]

I opt for no treatment......... I figure dogs have been dealing with fleas and ticks for eons and they've learned to live with them, plus, a few fleas and ticks ain't going to kill them, and is the lesser of the two evils.

Premethrine is a pesticide. Any "medication" or "treatment" you put on the coat of the dog eventually goes systemic, in otherwords, is absorbed into and travels everywhere in the dogs body, to every organ system.

Ever wonder why the instructions tell you to avoid contact with human skin? The stuff is a nasty carcinagenic, and I figure that I and my family / dogs are inadvertantly exposed to enough cancer producing agents without adding more. Want more info.......Google it....I did.... and thus my opinion.

Ditto for weed killer on the lawn and pesticides in the garden.....not in my yard.

[mountainboy]

put med ear tags up under there collarwith a zip tie .i live in north east al. i use 2 a yr pretty good luck so far