Ever heard of giving your dog garlic to keep fleas away?

barbiedoll1973_tn · 08-31-2006

Once one of my friends told me that she gave her dog garlic pills to help keep fleas off of him. I have thought about giving this a try has anyone ever heard of this before. My friend was a huge herbal freak she worked at a herbal store and took all kinds of herbal stuff herself she she gave her dog more than just garlic but I can't remember what all she gave him this has been gosh about 10 or 11 years ago.

PitBullLvr · 08-31-2006

I have done that before. My aunt gives her dog garlic all the time. Basically, it just repels the fleas from your dog because fleas don't like garlic. It doesn't kill them though. If you want them out of your house, you still have to treat your house. I gave my dogs garlic/brewers yeast tablets that can be found at WalMart or Giant Eagle.

barbiedoll1973_tn · 08-31-2006

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Originally Posted by PitBullLvr

I have done that before. My aunt gives her dog garlic all the time. Basically, it just repels the fleas from your dog because fleas don't like garlic. It doesn't kill them though. If you want them out of your house, you still have to treat your house. I gave my dogs garlic/brewers yeast tablets that can be found at WalMart or Giant Eagle.

I think that I have brewers yeast so does that help with the fleas also? and how many garlic pill and brewers yeast pills would you give to your dog each day?

PitBullLvr · 08-31-2006

I think the brewers yeast helps more with the coat than anything. How much you give your dog depends on weight. I think I gave my dogs 2/day. They weigh around 50lbs. Hope this helps

barbiedoll1973_tn · 08-31-2006

My dog only weights about maybe 25lbs so I would say only 1 a day for her then.

Brandy101bbb · 09-01-2006

Why not just put frontline or advantage on the dogs, that way it kills the fleas. I would'nt want the fleas hitching a ride on my pup and infesting my home, thats what will happen, they won't like the dog but they will definatly like your carpet, bedding and furniture, and hey humans are a pretty good blood snack! I just don't understand herbel stuff for pets or humans for that matter! LOL

spike · 09-01-2006

I would like to learn more about this also! I have known of a couple people who say they give their dogs a garlic pill a day to keep the fleas away, anyone have any experience with that? I'm not too sure about dog health ... Isn't there a couple sites out there that list garlic as one of the things that are toxic to dogs? It's hard enough to be so picky about the dog food I buy for my baby and table scraps he tends to get..
Sometimes things like K9 Advantage and Frontline are a little hard to come up with, as they're so expensive!

I can see that as one reason people want to look into alternative methods.

Craztels Malamute · 09-02-2006

I have tried all kinds of Home Remedies, and even store bought medications to slow down the bites from flies, and none seemed to work. I called the vet about this problem, as the ears on my poor dog were all eaten up. She suggested putting on some "Vaseline", and it would stop them from biting. Guess what, it actually worked, and made his ears nice and smooth......

puppylove17 · 09-02-2006

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Originally Posted by spike

I would like to learn more about this also! I have known of a couple people who say they give their dogs a garlic pill a day to keep the fleas away, anyone have any experience with that? I'm not too sure about dog health ... Isn't there a couple sites out there that list garlic as one of the things that are toxic to dogs? It's hard enough to be so picky about the dog food I buy for my baby and table scraps he tends to get..
Sometimes things like K9 Advantage and Frontline are a little hard to come up with, as they're so expensive!
I can see that as one reason people want to look into alternative methods.

I was wondering about the garlic being one of the things that was toxic to dogs as well. I know I read this was included on a list of things you shouldnt give dogs somewhere but cant remember the scource.

bandit_starr06 · 09-02-2006

I'd never heard of this before. I'm not sure I would try it though, my dogs don't like pills, it's hard enough to get the adult to eat his heartworm medicine. It's supposed to be flavored and we make it seem like a treat, but he usually only eats about half of it, then drops it and runs off.

I'm gonna have to try the Vaseline trick though, our puppy had fleas so bad that the constant scratching makes it look like he has mange on his shoulders. Which he doesn't, we took him to the vet & the vet told us it was because of the scratching and we would just have to keep the fleas off him, which is hard to do in Oklahoma, and let the hair grow in on its own.