Saturday, February 25, 2012

Flea removal Naturally

By Yvonne Ralph


As your pets come back home from a playing outside, so do some undesired hitch-hikers. Fleas and ticks can be attached to your pet via gardens and contact with other pets & animals. Fleas and ticks could cause plenty of harm to both your pets as well as humans. At the Pet Lovers Network, you'll find diverse choices to eliminate these fleas and ticks.

There are a large number of healthy alternatives that you can use to eliminate fleas and ticks.

- Use herbal flea powder sparingly To your pet's coat.

- Use herbal flea collars.

- Apply natural skin tonic as a general skin toner, bug repellent, and mange treatment.

- Add nutritive or brewer's yeast and garlic to the animal's diet.

- Sprinkle your carpets with a special anti-flea mineral salt or plain cooking salt will do, It'll dehydrate the Fleas.

- Occasionally (a few times a annually) sprinkle natural, unrefined diatomaceous earth (which kills bugs) along your walls, under your furniture, and in cracks where you cannot vacuum, though not immediately on your pets.

- Use sprays or powders containing pyrethrins or natural pyrethrums, because they are the least toxic of all pesticides used on animals.

- Another mild weapon against fleas is a good flea comb with closely spaced teeth. Your pet should be brushed often during flea season, likely each day. When you discover fleas, place them into a container of soapy water to kill them and halt their spread.

- Try 100 percent natural, preservative-free foods, a healthy pet is better able to fight Fleas: Additions like brewer's yeast, raw garlic, zinc, and barley grass concentrates. Check with your veterinarian about the correct doses depending on weight.

- Natural repellents do exist. Essential oils like citronella, tea tree, wintergreen, and eucalyptus have been proven to work. Please be cautious as some of these oils could be harmful to your pet if they lick it off their coat.

- Vacuum all surfaces where fleas and their eggs may live, and wash blankets and sheets in hot soapy water.

Once you have a flea break out you need to remain tenacious in continuing treatment of your pets and your environment in order to ensure there is no return of the issue.

If these natural remedies do not work it may be necessary to call in the experts and have you home professionally treated for fleas. Although this uses strong chemicals it is effective and can result in happier pets.






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