Other people have told me about the DE, I have to remember to try it. I’m older myself, so with 5 large dogs, we suck it up and have the mobile vet come do their shots, etc. They’re all spayed/neutered, all on Revolution and Hartguard. I clip their claws myself. I’d have every stray mutt I see at my house if my more objective DH didn’t draw the line. I hope this sounds as iI mean it-I’m glad my dogs are old enough to go before I do, because I don’t know who I could trust to love them and care for them as I do. I mean, there’s 5 of them!
I can remember when you could just buy the stuff and give them their shots yourself. Dang government has to mess with everything!
We get ours at the local Co-op. Jungs sells it too. I use it to keep ants out of her food dispenser. I pour a circle about 12” in diameter, sprinkle a bit in the middle and then put her dispenser in the middle of that. I’ve only had to pour out 2 batches of food this summer so far. Which is far different from my having to feed her twice a day to make sure she ate everything and didn’t have an ant nest in her food bowl within hours.
https://www.jungseed.com/dp.asp?pID=50090
I sprinkle it around the perimeter of her carport too, inside, to make sure other buggy things leave her alone. I’ve never found a tick on her either. We discussed putting her on the flea pill stuff but decided to see if the DE stuff would work. So far so good and we’ve had her 6 years now. I just pilled her with the heartworm stuff last week in fact. She’s easy to pill now. She won’t eat it herself but i guess it isn’t so gross that it takes 2 people to do the pilling.
She’s getting on and getting those gray grizzled patches on her snout :( . I know it’s only a matter of time though. I try to feed her as much ‘real’ protein as I can. She gets leftover eggs and stuff along with any meat discards. She seems to be in pretty good shape still, not overweight at all. Definitely not emaciated either.
I’ll hate to see her go. She’s very sweet and a great guard dog. She doesn’t ‘bark bark’ when someone drives up on walks by, she ‘WOOF WOOF WOOF!’s’ UPS guy always asks if she’s ‘up’ before he gets out of the truck LOL.