Posted on 04/06/2019 6:09:08 PM PDT by knarf
My dog has tics. It’s at its worst when he’s barking at people. I think public speaking makes him nervous.
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A coke bottle works great. Put the mouth of the bottle over the tick and smack the bottom.
We’re in the same environment ... and Bubba’s in the woods almost daily (’cause we are)
diatomaceous earth
dust the dog, chickens, livestock, etc with it - cheap and effective and won’t harm them - you can buy the food grade but I don’t think it matters
can use as a non-chemical cheap pesticide for ants, spiders, earwigs etc
give it a try and thank me later - it’s cheap and it works
you can also mix it in dog or cat food for worms
Funny!
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Just passed a farm the other day that had those out by the road- heard they are great tick eaters- chickens are also great- let them roam- they will clean your yard of all kinds of nasty critters-
Even the dead ones.
How do you stop the dog from licking it off? I don’t own a dog, but wouldn’t there be a problem with him licking and ingesting the sulphur and tick spray, even though it’s mixed with Vaseline?
Frontline
It worked perfect on my borzoi.
The ticks she picked up outside the bathrooms at the big park while taking a rest in the shade would fall off her dead within around four to six hours at home. I’d pull them off and they were dead or so groggy to move much. It was lethal to them.
She never had fleas.
And...it was not too toxic.
git some fahraints
Diatomaceous earth will kill any insect it touches. The diatoms its made of are like tiny razor blades and are a natural desiccant. It sticks to the moist joints between the insects exoskeleton, shreds them and starts them to leaking precious bodily fluids. Food grade can be used for internal parasites like worms. Externally it works great on fleas and ticks inside the house and in the yard. Sync your useage up with the insects egg cycle of the critter bugging you and their strangle hold on you is over!
Absolutely right! DE kills bugs in 48 hours. And if you use it in the yard; bug free. Safe for pets. Since it’s ground Scalia, it like razors on bugs bodies. They crawl on it, it slices them up and they just dry up. Great for bed bugs as well. Sprinkle around baseboards and carpets to get rid of them and fleas. Vacuum in 48 hours and gone.
bfl
I also used Borax Powdered clothes detergent on rugs and furniture bedding etc. Left it on for a day then swept. What that does is dries their shell and it cracks and they die. Also worked great from any recurrence.
Lyme vaccines cause an incurable, untreatable Lyme syndrome.
The dog gets all the symptoms but nothing will ease them.
Real Lyme is easily cured with cheap Doxycycline.
If you give your dog a preventative 100mg tablet every day, it will never get Lyme and the pill will do your dog no harm.
You couldn’t pay me to give that crap to my dogs.
It was created for human use years ago and then banned for horrible side effects so they palmed it off on innocent dogs rather than lose all that lovely money spent researching a developing it.
That, and Lepto shots [not even the right serovar for canine Lepto is the devil.
Avoid at all costs.
Every year, my vet argues that I NEED Lyme vax because of my area but I opt for SNAP 4DX test instead.
He always seems annoyed that my unvaccinated dogs never have Lyme.
If you add the DE to a spray bottle of water and spray it on the dog and your home, when it dries, it’s just as deadly as the dry powder form.
Southern States used to carry it ready-made and it was viciously effective, but they went out of business in my area, decades ago.
Possums!
:D
I also use the AdvantageII yard spray to knock them back. We haven't seen a flea yet this spring, and only 1 tick, and it was on the cat.
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