I have read in several places now that garlic is a good deterent to fleas. I have been giving my two 2cloves between them a week. Is this a safe amount, should they have more? Or is there another natural way to deter fleas?

Mine get garlic powder and average about a teaspoon a day, which is around about a clove. However powder has less oil in it so may be slightly less effective but is also a lot easier to keep/prepare. I think it would be quite difficult to overdose on it unless you ahve a very small dog and are very kean on it!

It does help keep fleas down, need to keep the immune systme in good shape too as healty dogs are less likely to get any of these things in great numbers. Herbs such as pennyroyal and wormwood help keep fleas and worms down and can be given as an infusion or used about the house as can Lavender.   

I feed a fresh glove of garlic to my dogs each day; if I am travelling I give Dorwest Garlic and Fenugreek tablets.

Ive not long started adding garlic powder to their dinner so dont know as yet whether it actually works :)

I give mine "kyolic garlc capsules" some dogs can get upset tums from too much fresh garlic :)

I also give brewers yeast,i used to give it every day but have cut down now,i give it for the extra B vitamins,protein etc. Altho i would not advise giving it to a dog that has any sort of allergy. The dogs love the taste so i sprinkle some ontop of their food as it also encourages them to eat,sometimes my dogs would rather play than eat :rolleyes:

Lel what kind of garlic powder do you use? I only know of the garlic salt you see in supermarkets,which kind do you use?

There are many contradictory articles on giving dogs (and horses) garlic.   I stopped giving mine garlic because of them.  It may well be safe at certain levels, but there have been no studies which show what amount is appropriate for dogs.  A few articles I read said that dogs may become anemic from garlic, so I decided to drop it from my dog's diet.

Onions are in the same plant family as garlic and are now well known to cause anemia in animals (dogs, cats, monkeys, horses, etc.)

Stacey

Frodo
just a little question, where did you get the yeast in powder form from? :)
I can only find tablet form.
I dont give my dog garlic, as she is always kissing me and i really really hate the smell and taste of garlic lol

Jane

Lazydaze i think i've seen it in health shops(torula,nutritional yeast),at the moment i just crush the tablets and sprinkle over their food.

Hi frodo
Thanks i will go and see if i can find some. I too have the tablet form and crush it, gets on your nerves doing that all the time lol
Jane

gets on your nerves doing that all the time lol

I know :) Most of it pings out of the spoon and flies accross the room :rolleyes:

yeah does a bit lol.
I use a wide knife so , then it doesnt fly everwhere.
how many do you give a day?
Jane

I put the whole lot through the grinder then store it in a jar. ;-)

how many do you give a day?

I give 2 per day. How many do you give?

I used the powder form ages ago,but my shop stopped stocking it,i'm 100% sure i've seen it around again lately tho.I'll go for a search when this bottle runs out!

What's wrong with plain old garlic capsules from tesco? No crushing, no smell (& no pinging lol):-)

Hi frodo
I crush 2 a day but wasnt sure if that was too much ????
do you use garlic also.
Jane

Hi colliesrus
we were talking about brewers yeast, having to crush them. we sort of changed subject in the middle of the thread lol. Good idea on garlic capsules thanks :) i was a bit concerned about the small as i dont like garlic. And if they were good for dogs, as someone has said not???
Jane

Kath
I never thought of doing that, Its my age makes me stupid  lol.
I have a new jar so will do that, if i can find my grinder, doesnt come out much lol.
Jane

Hi i give odourless garlic capsules to all my dogs so far they have had no fleas at all touch wood,& it helps them to have healthy hearts.I was adviced to use garlic from a breeder freind

Lazydaze i also give a kyolic garlic capsule when i remember :rolleyes: every second day or so :)

Hi frodo
Is kyolic garlic for dogs or is it a brand that us adults would use??
Did you read what stacey said about the garlic??
Thats when i start to worry lol, as shar-pei seem to get any thing lol.
I once bought a lovely dog biscuit tin full of dog cookies from tescos for treats, and ended up over the vets because she had a reaction to them :(
Jane

Mine get a garlic capsule each day from the health food shop.  Spoke to very pleasant women in there when I happened to mention that they were for the dogs.  She told me to buy the smelly ones and not the odourless ones as it is partly due to the smell that the fleas hate.  Never had a flea since! By the way the smelly ones were cheaper than the odourless ones so she did herself no favours by recommending them.

Thanks all for your posts. I will continue to give garlic 1 a day each I think and maybe get some brewers yeast.

:-)

I've used the odourless one on my long coated dogs for years and never had a flea problem :)