All Natural Dog Flea Treatment-4 Easy Steps

Using a natural dog flea treatment in place of chemicals is something many people are looking for these days. Chemical based products can cause unwanted irritation and even sickness in our dogs over time.

It’s time for us to take a different approach to eradicating the fleas from our dogs while keeping them safe from harmful chemicals that can cause irritation to our dogs skin not to mention bad reactions.

Follow The Steps Below For An All Natural Dog Flea Treatment

Step 1: Bathing With A Flea Shampoo

You will need to use an all natural flea shampoo, you can buy these or make your own. If you decide to buy an all natural flea shampoo, you may want one with essential oils or oatmeal based if your dogs skin is irritated from the fleas.

The all natural dog flea and tick shampoos offer great protection even without the harsh chemicals that can cause harm to our dogs.

How To Bathe Your Dog For Fleas

Step 1:  

I would recommend putting a thick ring of the flea shampoo around the base of your dogs neck before starting. The fleas are going to go for your dogs head to stay away from the water. The thick lather of the shampoo will prevent a lot of them from getting there.

Fill a tub with warm water, your dog will need to be submerged in the water as much as possible, this will cause the fleas to drown while bathing your dog. With your pup in the water rub the warm water all through their coat, down to the skin.

Keep them in the water for at least 10 minutes, while massaging the water into their coats. Not only does this ensure their entire coat is wet but it is drowning the fleas as well.

Step2:  

After your dog is fully drenched, drain the dirty flea water. Don’t rinse your dog even if you see fleas moving, they are drowning and suffocating and the next steps will kill them.

With your pup still in the tub, put a thick amount of flea shampoo starting on the neck and going all the way to the tail. Don’t be stingy with the shampoo, you want to be able to cover their entire coat with a thick lather of shampoo.

Rub the shampoo into a very thick lather, using your fingers and massage the shampoo all the way to your dogs skin.  Remember you want to cover every inch of your dogs coat, including their feet with the flea shampoo.

If you see fleas coming toward the face, push them back down into the soapy lather toward their back. If you have a flea comb handy, use that to comb them back into the flea shampoo.

Keep rubbing the shampoo into your dogs fur, down to the skin for at least 10 minutes. The longer you can leave the shampoo on the more fleas you’re suffocating and killing. Remember also, that while you are massaging the shampoo into their skin, you are also killing the other life stages of the fleas as well, ones that hide deep into the warm coats of our dogs.

Step 3:  

After the flea shampoo has had time to smother the fleas it’s time to rinse.

If you have a detachable shower head use this to rinse the flea shampoo from your dog, otherwise use a cup. Starting behind the ears, rinse the shampoo into a downward motion towards the tail. You want the fleas to keep drowning as you’re rinsing.

As your rinsing the flea shampoo off you’re still going to see fleas starting to go toward their face. Use your hand or a flea comb to push them back down toward the water and away from their face.

Step 4:  

After all of the flea shampoo is rinsed out of your pups fur, refill the bathtub with fresh warm water. Just as in step 1 of bathing your dog. Make sure that the water will cover their entire body as best as you can. This may seem like a useless step but you are getting all of the flea dirt and dead fleas off of your dog along with drowning any that are still alive.

Rub their coats just like you did when you were massaging the flea shampoo into their skin to get all of the excess flea dirt, flea eggs and dead adult fleas out of their coats.

If there are still a large amount of fleas on your dog after doing this, repeat with the shampoo along with the previous steps. I know it seems like a lot but honestly you will be grateful that you took the time to go another round and so will your dog.

Now that you have all the bathing done, you can move on to step 2 for your natural dog flea treatment.

Step 2: Using A Flea Comb To Get All The Dead Fleas Off

Take your dog out of the water and towel dry them the best that you can.  Now you’re going to need a flea comb, if you don’t have one use the finest tooth comb you have. You will also need a bowl of hot water to rinse the flea comb.

Starting at the neck of your dog, right behind the ears, make full combing strokes straight down to the tail of your dog. If your dog has really thick fur, just do the best that you can, even if you have to go in shorter combing strokes.

Rinse the comb after each comb stroke, you are getting any fleas that are dead and left on your dogs skin, along with any flea eggs that may be on them, off.  Continue combing your dog until you have done their entire body.

Step 3: Using An All Natural Flea Treatment Spray

To treat your dog after they are bathed and dry, you are going to use an all natural flea preventative spray. You want to completely spray your dog from head to toe, even the tail and feet. When you are spraying your dogs fur, push it up in the opposite direction of growth. When you do this, you are getting the flea spray right down to the skin.

After you have completely covered your dog with the flea spray, you can comb or brush your dog’s fur in the right direction so that they don’t look silly.

The flea sprays generally need to be reapplied every week until there are no signs of fleas anymore. The natural dog flea treatment spray is going to take the place of chemical monthly topical flea treatments and flea collars.

If you see fleas on your dog, you should be able to re apply the all natural flea and tick sprays without worry at any time. I know with the Wondercide, that’s what I use, it will kill fleas on contact as well and it is safe to use whenever you see any signs of fleas.

Step 4: All Natural Garlic & Brewers Yeast Tablets

You may want to consider giving your dog a garlic and brewers yeast tablet daily as well. The tablets change the taste of your dog’s blood and the fleas don’t like it.  

This is a great alternative to topical chemicals and monthly chewable pills because the fleas don’t like the taste of the garlic. The garlic in these tablets actually change the way your dog’s blood will taste. Just think about when you eat a lot of garlic, onions, etc., it actually doesn’t only give you bad breath but it will also change the taste of your blood as well when eaten regularly.

My dog gets 1 tablet daily and it seems to work well.  I think it’s the same for all dogs but check with your veterinarian just to be sure, it may be more or less depending on the size of your dog.

Your Natural Dog Flea Treatment is Complete!

Now you need to get rid of the fleas in your home and your yard to make sure that the fleas stay away from your dog and your family. You will need to break the flea life cycle throughout your home.  

The adult fleas that you just killed on your dog are only 5% of the flea population that you have in your home!  The other stages, egg, larva and pupa stages are hiding in your carpets, furniture and yard.

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