Since winter this year was a smattering of rainy days in December and little more than a handful of days colder than 50 degrees, the yard fleas did not die as we had anticipated. We had indeed anticipated their death because we're too cheap to pay 75 bucks a month to buy the fancy flea goo that is apparantly the napalm bomb of the parasite world.
And the dogs have been miserable.
This weekend I finally felt sorry enough for them to take measures to fight back.
I looked up natural remedies, partly because we have a baby who likes to pet the dogs, and partly because natural usually means cheap.
The concensus: garlic, lemon, rosemary, lavender, and tea tree oil, tea tree oil, tea tree oil*.
So the bug and I went to Whole Foods (love that place!), bought tea tree shampoo, tea tree oil, and garlic tablets. Then the boys got washed, oiled and pilled (wrapped in cheese of course).
Hoo-weee, does it smell tea-tree-y in this place now! The dogs are obviouly less itchy/scratchy already but they are not happy about the smell.
*Tea tree oil is not made from tea trees. We have a little tea tree bush in our front yard (that I keep pruned in the shape of a heart!) whose branches I wanted to pulverize and with which I wanted to slather the dogs. But no. Darn that misnomer!!
Happy 18th Birthday, Alayna!
1 year ago
2 comments:
Charlie, good concoction; however, use REAL garlic; works every time...you can put it in their food.
Aunt Sandi
Well, you are in the land of garlic, so give it to em. If I gave our dogs garlic, I would most definitely pass out when it was transferred to gas
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