[Errant]

Sounds like a wise vegetable plan. A plan "B" might include consideration for living as a nomad and eating plants available in the wild. With a little knowledge of what's edible, there is no reason for one to succumb to starvation. Not with all the cattails, dandelion, seed producing plants (you're going to need that grinder), nettle, and many other edible plants growing wild in the South. ;)

This is a post I made sometime back, if you aren't against using chemical flea treatments. It will significantly lower the cost of using Advantage for flea control - works for cats too. :-)

When buying advantage one month flea/tick treatment for dogs/cats, buy the largest size available. For example, the Advantage II Blue 6-Month Flea Control for Extra Large Dogs Over 55 lbs -- 6 Tubes costs $62.54 with free 2nd prime shipping and NO sales tax. BTW, Amazon Prime is a great deal, for about $79 per year, you get 2nd day free shipping on many purchases + free streaming video = > Netflix for an entire year, also free kindle book library access. The Advantage over 55 lb pack contains 6 each 4.0 ml tubes. The dosage rates for both dogs and cats can be found online. What I do is pour a tube in a small test tube with a rubber cap. These are available at vet and farm supply stores. Then I use a 1 ml syringe (with needle) to draw the amount required (for a 12 lb dog, 0.6 ml works great) from the test/blood sample tube through the rubber top (without opening the tube) and squeeze out the liquid as recommended behind their shoulders. This does two things, if you purchase prepackaged treatment for 10 - 20 lb dog, you'll get a tube with 1.0 ml. This is too much flea control for a 12 lb dog (remember only 0.6 for 12 lb dog). By drawing only what is needed for a particular size of dog, you prevent both waste and overdosing. The package size above, contains 24 ml of treatment. This is enough for treating a small 12 lb dog for 40 months, and in the winter you can skip several months. If you buy the package for 11-20 lb dogs, you get only 6 - 1.0 ml tubes, the price is quite high at $51.66 and only contains enough treatment for 6 months. Btw, Purchasing from Amazon will save you about half the cost of either size verses buying from a vet's office. If this tip saves you money, please consider donating a few extra bucks to FreeRepublic.Com will ya??? ;)

[Georgia Girl 2]

The problem with Advantage and Frontline is that the fleas have developed an immunity to the chemical. The lady at Petsmart told us to save our money that nothing except Trifexis (which we used last year and it worked) works anymore. It will slow the fleas down but not kill them. We were wondering why the Frontline was not working and we used Advantage and it did not work at all. The diatamaceous earth works fast and its non toxic. You can eat it. I highly recommend it.