Flea Control is Easy Once You Know the Cause

Flea control doesn’t have to be chemical laden to be effective. But let’s put that aside for the moment and focus on the cause.

Fleas are rarely a problem for people without pets. But they can become a nightmare for people with pets. So the most likely cause of your flea control problem comes from your pet. Possibly your cat, but more likely your dog, as cats take their body hygiene more seriously.

Wild animals aren’t infested with fleas as their domestic cousins are. At least not healthy wild animals. So what is it about domestic dogs that attracts fleas?

Let’s look at the skin. This is the least important organ of the body. So when the dog has a problem, such as a high toxic load, the easiest way for the body to get rid of the toxins is through the skin.

This is likely to produce unsightly eruptions, but it will also alter the skin pH.

The one thing that dogs do every day is to eat. You may have heard the old saying ‘you are what you eat’. Dogs are too. Good food in results in good health. Poor food in results in poor health. Garbage in - garbage out.

Most commercial dog food consists of poor quality meat (more likely meat by-products), lots of cheap filler, some isolated and synthetic nutrients and very toxic preservatives, despite what the label may say.

None of this is in your dog’s long term health interest, but the worst part is the toxic preservatives. To try to get rid of these, your dog will develop a skin eruption which is just heaven to fleas, so they will quickly breed in such lush conditions.

Couple that with the poor nutritional content, and your dog’s skin pH is all wrong.

If you feed your dog raw meat and bones, this is very acid. And this is just right for dogs. It’s how they evolved. Raw meat, with no preservatives, means your dog will be getting the natural nutrition in keeping with his evolutionary history.

Suddenly the environment has changed. There are no skin eruptions. Fleas don’t like it as much. You may see the odd flea, but the proliferation can no longer happen.

Feeding your dog on raw meat and bones will have other benefits too, besides controlling fleas.

• bones help keep the gums healthy
• bones help clean the teeth
• bones provide essential calcium in the way dogs need
• crunching up on a bone keeps your dog emotionally happy
• raw meat provides nutrients in a natural and balanced form
• raw meat is easily and quickly digested
• raw meat makes evacuation easy
• raw meat creates a natural skin pH to dogs

Holistic vets have found that when dogs are fed raw meat and bones, chronic disease just melts away. But returns with a return to commercial pet food.

Think of the whole picture rather than zoning in on just the flea control. Then everyone is a winner.

The Most Efficient Home Remedies for Killing Fleas

Lets face it, fleas aren’t most people’s favourite animal. They irritate the skin, they bite and they leave their eggs (white specks) and their poo (black specks) in your dogs fur.

There are various home remedies for killing fleas, some good, some bad, some indifferent. But all of them, including those you buy from your veterinarian, are highly toxic and do far more harm than good.

Flea collars, flea sprays, flea spot-on, flea powders, they’re all toxic to us. Read the label if you don’t believe me.

So what does that mean for your dog? They have it put directly onto their skin, where it is quickly absorbed into their body.

Environmental Protection Agency has reported an alarming increase in the number of adverse incidents from anti flea and tick products. These can vary from mild effects such as skin irritation to more serious effects such as seizures and in some cases death.

Over 44,000 potential incidents associated with registered spot-on products were reported to EPA in 2008. And I doubt that is half the real number of total adverse reactions. Many people just don’t report these incidents or don’t even see them to report them.

If your dog is kept outside or you’re away, you would not necessarily notice a reaction.

According to the EPA the following companies products represent about 80% of the reported adverse reactions.

Promeris, Frontline, RF, Zodiac, Farnam Companies, The Hartz Mountain Group, Sergeant’s, Tradewinds.

But that doesn’t mean the others aren’t safe, just perhaps less hazardous.

So what can you do to control fleas? Are there any natural and effective home remedies for killing fleas?

Before we go there, I can never really understand why the cause of problems aren’t looked at. Why produce a toxic product to kill off a parasite without looking at why the parasite is there in the first place? Aren’t humans meant to be intelligent?

Or is the profit motive so strong, every other voice is drowned out?

You might think that dogs and fleas go together. That’s just nature’s way.

Well, I’m telling you that it isn’t nature’s way. Wild dogs may well have the odd flea, but they don’t have the infestation that you see with untreated domestic dogs.

Wild dogs don’t have access to any home remedies for killing fleas. It’s a bizarre thought.

So what could be the answer?

The answer lies in the daily habits of domestic dogs which is totally different from that of wild dogs.

Their diet!

Commercial pet food is to blame for the vast majority of flea infestations. Why would you need home remedies for killing fleas, when you can stop the infestation from happening in the first place? And so easily.

Once you get your head around the idea of feeding your dog a natural diet, you and your dog’s flea problem will disappear.

Forget about home remedies for killing fleas. Because none of them get to the cause of the problem, they can’t be effective indefinitely, even if some are initially.

reference - Truth about Petfood