Natural ways to get rid of flea's ?

Question

Help my dog has flea's! I am working very hard to clean the house very well! I wanted to know how to get rid of the flea's from my dog and house naturaly. There are little kids that the dog comes in contact with so I wanted to avoid chemicals at all cost! I heard essential oils kill them? Anyone know the best way to get rid of them so we can be done with this flea war!!!!!

Thanks

Answer 1

Personally, I haven't found any natural product that kills fleas as well as vet-prescribed remedies like Revolution (which takes care of heart worms, fleas, ticks, and even internal parasites on the pet.) I've tried garlic in the dog's food, diatomacious earth sprinkled in the carpet, etc., and they just don't work for my pets.

After the infestation on your pet is controlled, then you need to work on the house. To get rid of fleas in the house, you need to thoroughly vaccum the entire house, including the furniture, to get all the flea eggs. Dispose of the sweeper bag and/or wash all filters and containers with hot soapy water to kill any eggs that you picked up with the vaccum.

Wash anything washable (dog's bedding, blankets, anything the dog has laid on) in hot soapy water. Then set off a "flea bomb" in your house. Repeat all steps as necessary. but this method should take care of it in only one or two tries.

Like I said, I've never had much success with natural remedies, and once your house is infested, it's going to take more than garlic to get rid of the pests. Hope this helped.

Answer 2

Dish soap will kill the adults, but not the eggs, so you will have to wash your dog often with it to keep on top of the fleas which will eventually irritate its skin - we tried this. You can get flea shampoo from your vet or local pet shop. You can use a spray of water and tea tree oil around the house, or some dried fennel around the place. It keeps most bugs away, including lice.

The spot on treatments and so on are safe for use around children so long as they don't come in contact with the product while it is still wet, so it may be best to go with that and just keep the dog in the bathroom til it dries. Its much more effective then natural things, and more powerful.

Answer 3

Start by treating the carpet, the running boards, and the apartment with Bio Flea Halt! powder, and then spray the edges in your apartment with a spray by the same name. This will keep the fleas from entering. Take your rabbit and tape everything up, and then FLEA-BOMB your place! Come back in a couple hours or so, air out the place, and then start vacuuming. The only natural way I can think of to deal with fleas, is being on Coumadin. They bite you, they DIE. They don't come back for seconds.

Answer 4

Get the animal out of the house the fleas will starve in a day or two. Get it treated by a vet. Put garlic powder in its food when it comes home. Fleas hate it. Orthen is not a chemical, it is an abrasive that cause the little fleas to bleed to death. It works fast. Try it. Vacuum rugs two or three times a day. All of this combines, I know, it works.

Answer 5

Give your dog a bath with LEMON dishliquid. LEMONS are a deadly poison to fleas!!!!!!!! It kills them instantly. And it is safe and cheap. If you have a flea problem in your house, at night before you go to bed put a 1/3 inch of water in a salad bowl, add some LEMON dishliquid. Put a tea light in the middle of the bowl, set on the floor and leave all of the lights out over night! (And keep the animals in a separate room.) With all of the lights out the fleas will be attracted to the light and the heat of the candle and when they try to get to it they jump and fall into the water with the LEMON dishliquid and it traps and kills them almost instantly! Do that for a couple nights in each room and you will have a flea free house in an extremely short time, safe for the animals, and almost no cost!

Answer 6

Garlic! Fleas, ticks and mosquitos all hate garlic. You can actually get super concentrated garlic spray, that only smells for a few minutes after you spray it, but keeps bugs away for 2-3 months. Or add garlic to your dogs food.

Also, ask your vet about Revolution. It's perfectly safe and will not harm your pets or any children playing with them. It protects against more than just fleas to. I use it for my cats, and my mother uses it on her dogs. Works great.

Answer 7

you need to treat your house so that the fleas' eggs are killed. Sorry, but there does not seem to be a "natural" way to do this, although the sprays are too harmful to humans.

We are going to spray the house next June, this prevents fleas for six months, the critical summer period. Fleas can be a serious problem, it is not worth messing about with untried solutions.

Answer 8

Hi. I had the same problem with my cats and kittens. My cats had adverse reactions to flea treatments. I work in a Nursing Home, an old woman told me that putting Brewers Yeast on the cats would kill and repel the fleas without hurting the animals. I could not find it in the supermarket, so I put regular yeast on my cats and it worked. Remember to put it on the animal once a day until the problem disseappers. I was also told fleas hate Cocoa Butter, So I gave my cats baths with Suave Cocunut Shampoo, and used Palmers Cocoa Butter on my legs to keep fleas from biting me. It worked, but my cats seldom go outside so they seldom get fleas. Try it and see if it works.

Answer 9

Okay, this may sound weird but I heard that a really natural and good way to rid fleas of your carpet is to put a long candle in a bowl of water (make it safe and stationary) and put it on the floor. Turn out the lights. Come back later, you will see that the fleas jumped toward the light, thus landing them in the water and drowning them. Good luck to you!

Answer 10

here's some idea's for your pet skin so soft oil from avon . for your home .take a plain white bowl fill with iodized salt andwater put that under a outlet in your home with a plain white nigth in the outlet over nigth and there will be dead fleas by the next day also put the iodezed salt all your carpet leave on 5 mins and vacmue up. the salt has to be iodized salt or it won't work