Re: Tick repellants

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Sharon, do you know if Tea Tree oil will also help keep ticks off dogs and cats?

Thanks,

JoeannWondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food.

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Thanks for all the tick info so far.  I have been googling for good tick repellent recipies and have also found a few.  I have used a prepared one I bought a year ago, but have not been able to get a hold of the supplier again, so I am going to make my own.  I will let you all know what I come up with in the end.  In the meantime, here are some observations:-Last year, when sprayed regularly on my Airedale, I did not find ticks on him.  But when I stopped (late in the fall), within a week I started finding ticks.  I resumed using it until well into winter.-the same spray used on my recently adopted Australian Terrier has not been as effective this spring.  perhaps because he is lower to the ground? Or his nutrition has not been as good? or his immune system....who knows.  I resorted to Frontline after a week of pulling ticks off him because I am afraid of lyme.  I continue to use the spray and may not use Frontline again if I don't see any ticks on him after a while.-I have read over and over again: DO NOT USE ESSENTIAL OILS ON CATS!!-Dogs have extremely sensitive noses--best to stay away from using the oils near their noses.  I rub some on my hands and gently stroke the hair around his face.  The dogs hate being sprayed.And on a final note:  Some dogs are extrememly sensitive to tea tree oil and it has been know to cause convulsions.  All pure essential oils are powerful--so dilute them and use only what you need.MaraSharon, do you know if Tea Tree oil will also help keep ticks off dogs and cats? Thanks,JoeannWondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food.

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I would not use any essential oils on or around cats, as they are extremely sensitive to them, and can be deadly.

ge

Sharon, do you know if Tea Tree oil will also help keep ticks off dogs and cats?

Thanks,

Joeann

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Hi Joeann

I think Mara already caught this, but I'll reiterate--I would not put tea tree oil on my dog (and especially not a cat)

I'll repeat here the very strange thing I found, accidentally, that keeps ticks off my dog for most of the season. (posted to another list a few months ago)

I used to be a distributor for the Young Living oils company (mlm) and they have a shampoo that I will buy forever, even though I'm no longer a member. It's their lavender/voluminizing shampoo for fine hair.

Went to give the dog her Spring bath a few yrs ago and decided to use this shampoo because of it's purity.

NO TICKS

I repeated this each yr, and NO TICKS for me to remove from her.

It's got to be the lavender.

I do start finding a few ticks sometime in the Fall, however. This dog hates baths so much that she doesn't get them very often.

I think I will put some of the pure oil on her collar, since she got an unexpected shampoo 2 wks ago while in the vet hospital.

I think I will also dilute some lavender oil in a little water and rub it on my hands, then lightly through her fur.

HTH,

Sharon M

Sharon, do you know if Tea Tree oil will also help keep ticks off dogs and cats?

Thanks,

Joeann

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Nutrition has nothing to do with it. If you spend any amount

of time on

the raw feeding lists, not that I am advocating posting

there <grin>, but just

read the results of raw nutrition, which I do think can be

superior to many

other ways of feeding. They do not report any effect on

fleas or ticks -- their

dogs still get them, just as much.

Another myth bites the dust . . .

Go back to Frontline or Advantage, do not use Advantix, it

has a concentrated

synthetic pyrethrin, called Permethrin, it has caused

problems for many animals

and humans.

Garnet

Mara Miles wrote:

> -the same spray used on my recently adopted Australian Terrier has not

> been as effective this spring. perhaps because he is lower to the

> ground? Or his nutrition has not been as good? or his immune

> system....who knows. I resorted to Frontline after a week of pulling

> ticks off him because I am afraid of lyme. I continue to use the spray

> and may not use Frontline again if I don't see any ticks on him after a

> while.

[Guest guest]

Amazon has some good books on the pharmacology of Essential

Oils.

Anyone who uses them needs to read at least one of these books.

They are absolutely not all harmless. Some can cause epileptic

seizures in dogs that are epileptic and abortion, birth defects

etc.

It is a concentrated product.

Garnet

Gail wrote:

> I would not use any essential oils on or around cats, as they are

> extremely sensitive to them, and can be deadly.

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> Sharon, do you know if Tea Tree oil will also help keep ticks off

> dogs and cats?

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> Thanks,

> Joeann

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Nutrition has nothing to do with it. I have no idea whether this is true or not.  But I have found that feeding both my horses and my dogs a garlic based nutritional supplement called Bug Check, seems to make them less appealing to bugs.  The dogs are also fed raw meat and eggs and veggies as part of their no grain diet.  And the children that I work with who are very sugar addicted seem to suffer the most from bug bites.  This is not a scientific study, I know, just an observation.mara

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The people I know who are mosquito magnets, my daughter and

husband, eat the

exact same very healthy diet that I do. They love them and

leave me alone so go figure.

Lots of people swear by garlic. It has never worked for me

and I have tried it over

a period of 35 years. Maybe we have super bugs down in here

in Texas where if it does

not bite or sting it has prickles that will spear you and

never come out. LOL

I have fed raw and everything in between. I still feed raw

fresh farm eggs for the

omega 3's. I think that it is more important to get all the

right nutrients in what

ever form than an unbalanced raw diet. Most raw feeders do

not know or do not

apply the info on balancing a raw diet. It is harder than

most people think. And omega

3's are so important to immune health, prevention of

arthritis and other inflammatory

conditions . . . and it needs to be animal source since dogs

do not convert EPA forms to DHA

forms efficiently, only 10% according to the mfg of Missing

Link, which uses alot

of flax seed.

Sugar metabolism is a very unique condition and I would not

compare it to any total

diet regimen. It makes your system very acid for one thing

and I do believe that could

be why they attract bugs. pH is a powerful parameter that

must not be over looked.

Even a healthy diet can make you acidodic.

Garnet

Mara Miles wrote:

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>> Nutrition has nothing to do with it.

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> I have no idea whether this is true or not. But I have found that

> feeding both my horses and my dogs a garlic based nutritional supplement

> called Bug Check, seems to make them less appealing to bugs. The dogs

> are also fed raw meat and eggs and veggies as part of their no grain

> diet. And the children that I work with who are very sugar addicted

> seem to suffer the most from bug bites. This is not a scientific study,

> I know, just an observation.

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> mara

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