How to use all natural dog flea control in a yard

Would you like to use an all natural dog flea control to keep fleas out of your yard and off your dog? There’s an easy-to-apply forumla that can help prevent fleas, that we just started using in our back yard. It’s also supposed to be effective against ticks.

Start by mowing your grass as short as possible. Don’t cut it so short that it’ll burn, but do cut it short. Then, on a day that it’s not supposed to rain, gather your supplies and apply this mixture.

You’ll need a new sprayer that you won’t use for any other purposes–that’s because you want to make sure you won’t have any non-pet-safe residue in the sprayer from other pesticides.

You’ll also need neem essential oil, garlic, pyrethrin, water, and canola oil. You can get the neem and pyrethrin at your local garden supply store (call first in case they need to special order it for you). The oil will help the natural dog flea control pesticide to stick to the lawn and plants.

Mix together two parts water to one part canola oil. Then, mix this oil/water mixture four parts to one part pyrethrin.

In other words, you’d start with two cups of water and one cup of canola oil for a total of three cups. Then, mix in 3/4 of a cup pyrethrin with the oil/water mixture. Next, mix in the neem oil according to the directions on its package (they vary depending on brand).

Spray the yard thoroughly. And I do mean thoroughly! Get everything from the lawn to the bushes–you want to make sure there’s no place for fleas and ticks to linger. It’s safest for your pet if you don’t let him out in the yard for 24 hours after spraying the yard, so make it worth the inconvenience by snuffing out all the bad bugs.

Depending on your area and how prevelent fleas and ticks are, you’ll want to spray the yard every 7-10 days throughout the summer. This should keep the fleas and ticks at bay.

What kinds of dog flea control do you use?

Dog suppliments–do you use them?

Our dog, Vance, is getting a little older (he’ll be six this year), and since he’s a big dog (a yellow Lab), I worry a little about his joints and wonder about the effectiveness of vitamins for dog. I want to make sure that he has plenty of mobility and pain-free joints as he gets older.

I’ve been looking into dog suppliments and thought I’d post here to ask if any of your use them with your dogs. If you do, what do you use? And does it seem to be making a difference? If you don’t use vitamins for dogs, is there any particular reason? I’ve always believed that a healthy dog food would mean there was no need for dog suppliments, but now I’m not so sure.

I’m looking forward to knowing the approach you take with your dog and I’ll be sure to share what I turn up in my research about vitamins for dogs along with what we decide to do for Vance.

Dog clicker training: Amazing video!

Some dogs really respond to clicker training moreso than training with treats. The great thing about dog clicker training is that you don’t have to worry about giving your dog too many treats during a session. Plus, it can be used for advanced dog training.

Take a look at this dog clicker training video for inspiration and then for more details on the training program that got these results, visit the site: