Natural flea treatments?

Does your dog have fleas? Our dog is 6 and has never had a single flea as far as we are aware. We have never used any flea preparation on him.

If he needed it we would get the stuff from the vet.

I believe tea tree oil works but I wouldn't chance putting anything on him till you have spoken to the vet . Google natural flea treatments and see what comes up x

Lots of dog owners won't use chemicals and there is a lot of information on line about natural treatments.

Many years ago, I came home from holiday to find my house infested. I'd left the dog with a friend, who called every day to feed the cat. I'd been using an off the counter treatment for the dog and the cat wore a flea collar. Needless to say, all my pets have been treated with the dreadful chemicals, as recommended by our vet, since then. Once bitten as they say.

Flea infestations are a nightmare - you'll certainly know it if your pet does have fleas. It's never just one or two.
We had to burn floor mats (luckily floors are all tiled) and set off "bombes" in the main rooms before going to bed. And used chemicals on the pets.
They can return too, I've heard of them hibernating under wallpaper.

Was it a liquid de-flea er?

If so the symptoms you describe are normal. It's nothing to do with the chemicals but the feeling of the slightly viscose liquid on the skin. Our vet described it as a creeping feeling lol so it might just be that.

No, she doesn't have fleas, never has.

We use a "spot-on" tick and flea treatment which some dogs and cats are allergic to. Frontline combo, or Advantix. There are a lot of ticks in the long grass around us.

When we got our first dog, over 20 years ago, our lovely vet also told us not to treat her for fleas unless she actually had them. In 16 years we had one tick but not a single flea

I use Advantix as the vet says fleas seem to be bursting through the Frontline protecter. My one experience if flea infestation led me down the chemical route and despite the anxieties this causes, we've never had a flea and all our dogs have lived to ripe old ages, in good health to the end of their lives.

She's been scratching though and nibbling her hind leg. I know she has no fleas so could this be because her fur is getting longer and she is getting too warm now the weather is changing? I have started to trim her up today and hopefully it will calm her down a little? It's like having a baby, not knowing what is wrong.

I got Nexguard for Grace last summer as Frontline clearly wasn't defeating them. She wasn't scratching, but being short haired and white, the flea dirt (which I thought was black dandruff) was visible. I had already spent a fortune on big cans of Indorax spray too for the carpets and skirting in the whole house but the new treatment worked immediately.

Well, she seems a lot calmer today after I gave her a tiny bit of an antihistamine for her allergic reaction. She's not drowsy and has just been back to her normal self since she took it. I will research natural flea treatments in depth and then I am not putting insecticides on her from now on.

Thanks for your replies.