Comments on: Stop Fleas And Ticks On Dogs-Alternatives To Frontline Medicine?

By: pgeorge

pgeorge — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 18:41:34 +0000

I have found an efficient and very cheap way of KILLING FLEAS. Believe it or not, very diluted Dawn dishwashing soap will kill fleas within approx 6 seconds after contact. I did a test of combing fleas from my dog and then subjecting some to ‘store bought’ spray, and some to the soap solution. It took the store bought stuff about 10 seconds to perform.

By: anna

anna — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:36:04 +0000

Frontline is great as it stops the fleas from being able to breed so you won’t get any fleas in your home. My vet advised me to switch every year to a different product tho so now trying another chemical they gave me applied monthly. Stopped the dog from scratching too as I think he may have become allergic. If you are reading this in Spain you must get a scalibar collar or a treatment monthly applied to the skin to prevent this horrible tiny mossie that flies at over 20 degrees and is all over Southern Spain, biting your dog and basically causing it huge problems/death. Your dog can start to lose its fur or have internal organ damage and will need medication for the rest of its life or to be put down. I know several owners that have had first hand troubles with the mosquito and the scalibar collar lasts 3 months is not expensive and saves your dogs life potentially. Around 35% of dogs in Spain have this disease…..the plus side of living in Spain is that you don’t need to worry about heartworm as we don’t have this in Spain. I now we all want natural treatments but fleas cause so much distress and the mossie bite can kill your dog…..so a bit of chemicals, well I don’t think it does them any harm at all. Just like drinking the odd can of diet coke does us no harm and bathing in bubble bath full of chemicals…..

By: lorraine

lorraine — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:05:38 +0000

coconut oil wiped on my boxers itching sores sooth and heal well.. she likes to lick it off though. Fish oil orally is helpful from the inside out.

By: emma jones

emma jones — Sat, 28 May 2011 11:16:20 +0000

Does anyone have any ideas or have they tried a more natural way of replelling fleas? my westie seems to have some sort of reaction to spot ons, i have tried all different ones and still the same, his skin goes all red and blochy. so i am after any ideas on anything natural please

By: sunny tait

sunny tait — Wed, 25 May 2011 14:33:48 +0000

Great research and much appreciated that you are interested and took the time to pass on the info.
Thanks,
Sunny

By: RoseofSharon

RoseofSharon — Tue, 17 May 2011 14:56:59 +0000

I found your article extremely throuough. Thank you for such well researched information. A comment I wanted to leave is that I have Samoyeds. The ticks are seeming to be running right now, but I did not know it. I was washing my guys for a show this past weekend, and I make my own shampoo using a natural dish soap that uses lavendar and eucalyptus oils plus I add apple cider vinegar to make it the proper ph for dogs. I scrubbed the living soul out of them, and then rinse with an apple cider vinegar solution. When I went to blow dry the male, I found 4 ticks just wandering around deep into the hair. I used a very powerful force on the water hose, so I thought perhaps I dislodged them. Now after reading your article, I am wondering if the lavendar, eucalyptus, and/or apple cider vinegar upset them and they pulled out on their own? I am certainly going to make a mixture of the oils and vinegar and use it and see if I can keep the little buggars for burrowing in. Thought you might want to know for your continuing research.

By: Shirley Hassan

Shirley Hassan — Thu, 12 May 2011 22:14:59 +0000

Before removing the tick with a tweezer it is important to soak the tick with surgical spirit on a bit of cotton wool. This sedates the tick enabling easy removal thus reducing the risk of leaving part of the tick inside the skin. This is how ticks are removed from us humans!

By: memie

memie — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:47:35 +0000

I like the video becouse my dog got 2 fleas that’s like it has claws!

By: Beth

Beth — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 08:31:10 +0000

I have been using Frontine for years with great success. I note the date on my personal calendar so the uses are given regularly. However, this fall, this month, Frontline stopped working on one of my dogs. Since she’s already been treated I don’t want to try other chemicals, so am willing to try the lemon thing. Anything to stop her from itching.
Would appreciate ideas.

By: all about dogs

all about dogs — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:55:35 +0000

I have read positive result from dog owners about frontline plus but haven’t really tried to use it to my dogs. I use a tick and flea collar for my dogs flea problem. It works well and up to 4 months.