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What is a homeopathic way to prevent tick bites on dogs?
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Question: I have been finding ALOT of ticks on my two dogs lately, and I don’t want my house to become infested with ticks. I want to be able to sit with my dogs and not have to worry about ticks getting on my or my furniture. If anyone knows any homeopathic ways to prevent ticks from biting my dogs, that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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November 17th, 2009 at 8:45 pm
You can use brewer’s yeast pills. 1 pill for every ten pounds. It works great for fleas and ticks. Its made out of garlic. You won’t smell it, no residue on your hands or furniture.
November 17th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Alcohol. or a flea comb. Sorry dont know homeopathic remedies for dogs that much.
November 17th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
garlic in dogs food you can buy garlic capsules 1 per day will help as it makes them less attractive to bite but you will need to make sure that your home does not become infested you might need to treat it too.
November 17th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
There isn’t any – it’s not truly effective, all the brewers yeast, garlic, etc. – just doesn’t work well.
Only thing absolutely works is a topical liquid every month for fleas and tix – Frontline Plus and Advantix work very well.
You are just fooling yourself i you try all the homemade recipes, your dogs won’t be protected.
By the way, garlic is dangerous for dogs as are onions – can cause blood problems.
November 17th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Why not try a homeopathic version of a dog dip. It should include garlic and essential oils. Here is a product that seems to have what you are looking for.
http://www.earthanimal.com/acatalog/halo_cloud_nine_herbal_dip.html
Hope this helps.
November 17th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
I live in NJ and I just applied the Natural Defense from Senty to my medium sized dog. Upon application my house smelled like someone dropped a pouppourri (sp?) bomb, and the dog was trying to get it off. Very spicy smelling. Well, 4 days later 2 ticks dropped off him – not dead, but fat and happy and gross. And I pulled another 2 off with tweezers.
Useless! I am at my wits end and am going to either clear cut all the forests (oh, wait, they’re already doing that for me here), or apply Advantix and hope for the best. I am not a fan of the toxins. And they ARE toxins. I should have gotten a plant.