My owner has used Frontline on me to get rid of fleas for years. She just gave me my first “dose” of it for the spring season a couple of weeks ago. I get a terrible rash all over my body with just a couple flea bites, so it’s important to keep me treated.
While we were looking at information about flea repellents, we found that there is actually a natural herbal repellent you can use on dogs, cats and other furry animals as long as their skin is not sensitive to it.
What you do is combine 1 part eucalyptus powder; 1 part pennyroyal, sage or rosemary powder; 1 part fennel powder; 1 part yellow dock powder. Put all in something that has a shaker top…we keep a few emptied spice bottles that have shaker tops around to use for things like this.
Try a bit on your pet to make sure they are not sensitive to it. If all seems okay, sprinkle just enough so that the smell is evident on the fur, brushing hair against the grain as you sprinkle it on.
Do not get it in your pet’s eyes…concentrate on areas like the back and “chest” area of the belly where they won’t lick too much. You don’t want to overdo it, and again, make sure it won’t irritate your pet’s skin.
You can also sprinkle this on carpets to repel fleas in the house, or around the perimeters of the room or outside of the house to keep them away. How often you do this is a matter of trial and error…you shouldn’t have to use it every day on your pet unless they are particularly infested. I’d definitely put some on before going for hikes in the woods or grassy fields.
We have just discovered this, and are thinking of giving it a try. Have any of you ever tried natural herbal flea repellents for your pets? If so, tell us about it in a comment.
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One of the problems that many pet owners face, especially if you own fuzzy pets like we are is hair or fur all over the floor and carpeting when we shed. Even though I’m supposed to be the kind of dog that doesn’t shed very much, I do shed quite a bit of fine hair that my owners find in the kitchen…it hides in the carpet, but it’s there and they have to get rid of it.
Another problem with pets like us, is that sometimes our owners are allergic to us. Not so much dogs like me that have hair that grows, but especially animals like cats who have a fine undercoat of hair or dander. When you vacuum up hair like that, you want to be using a vacuum that will keep all of that inside. Dirt Devil makes vacuum cleaners like this. They make a lot of tools for cleaning floors and carpets, in all different shapes and sizes, and have parts for broken carpet cleaners and vacuums.
If you are looking for a vacuum that is made especially for those with allergies, when you visit the site that the links lead to in this post, look along the bottom for those made for allergies.
The holidays are here, and the Dirt Devil Holiday Gift Guide has been put together with many great ideas for gift giving. There are gifts for everyone, like small hand-held cleaners for cleaning cars and quick clean-ups, heavy duty vacs for those man-sized clean-up jobs. There are over 300 ways to save money with the gift guide, and people are all trying to do that this holiday season with the way the economy is at this time…there are a lot of great shipping breaks as well.
Take a look and see what you can find for your family and we all wish you and your furry, feathered for finned friends a great holiday season!!
I really hate bath time…it’s easy to tell when I’m going to have a bath because my owner does the same routine each time, empties the sink, gets my dog shampoo out from under the sink, then goes to the closet to get a towel to put on the counter. I’m small so fit in the kitchen sink. By the time she’s done doing all of that, I am usually cowering in the corner of the couch, or hiding under her bed.
I know it’s silly, because my skin gets itchy and oily, and after she is done with the bath, I feel really good. I am not sure whether to be nervous or happy, because today she wants to tell you about a dog shampoo that is soothing to dog skin, and even has something in it that helps to repel fleas. If this is true, then even I might like to take a bath.
Even though I get treated each month for fleas, sometimes I get a bite anyway, and since I’m allergic to the bites, this leads to a skin reaction, and my skin gets really itchy. Dinovite has a shampoo that is soothing to the skin, cleans you real well, rinses away easily, has natural therapeutic-grade essential oils that have natural, healing properties which would be great if I get bit by a flea or two again this summer…and maybe it will even stop me from getting bitten because it contains that NATURAL FLEA DETERRENT I mentioned earlier.
So if your looking for a nice shampoo for your big or little dog, please visit the links above or below so you can see more about what we’ve been talking about.
Hope you had a happy 4th of July, and that your pooch survived the fireworks!
Just this week my owner gave me my first flea treatment of the season, something that is pretty important because not only do fleas love me, but they cause a terrible allergic reaction, and some of them carry a disease called Lymes Disease.
My owners are dreading another kind of bug that likes to bite them just as much as fleas like to bite me. One of my owners gets bit more than the other. We used to call him a “mosquito magnet” until we found out that there is a REAL Mosquito Magnet. It is the first devise of it’s kind, and has a special attractant that mosquitoes love, so they will go to the mosquito magnet and leave you, your family and your guests alone.
You will have to stop by and read a mosquito magnet review or two, and while you’re at the site, you’re going to want to look at the video and click on the link that gives you details about the Mosquito Magnet.
Like dogs can get Lyme’s Disease from ticks, people can get diseases from mosquitoes, like West Nile virus. My owners and the family like to spend their time out on the deck in the summer, and it doesn’t take long for one of them to start getting bitten and go in the house, so they will be taking a closer look at this interesting mosquito trap, maybe you will want to too.
Humans aren’t the only ones affected by the peanut butter recall that is going on right now because Salmonella has been found in peanut butter products who use peanut butter supplied by a particular peanut butter manufacturer, the Peanut Corporation of America. If you want to find out whether your pet food is safe, there is a searchable list (more…)
