What can I feed my dog to prevent ticks?
Maxwell Dach
2025-08-06 13:55:02
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Feed your pet products that are acidic or that have live healthy lactic acid bacteria, like garlic, apple vinegar, buttermilk, or kefir. It makes your pet’s blood taste less attractive to ticks and fleas. You can feed your pet garlic from your kitchen, but there are also garlic tablets available. Garlic can be given every day for your dog, but don’t use garlic with cats. Various herbs have a superfood effect on pets and they are used generally to improve health and immunity. A healthy pet with a strong immunity has a stronger natural barrier against fleas and ticks. A herb that has found to be effective to combat and prevent ticks and fleas is fenugreek. Spread ground fenugreek over your pet’s food for approximately 10 days. When the fleas and ticks are more active you can feed fenugreek to your pet for 3 to 4 times a week. Dogs of a regular size can have a small handful, a cat shouldn’t get more than a teaspoon. There are treats available that are made from sheep’s fat and contain garlic. These treats have an antiviral and antiparasitic effect. Set your pet up for succes with a healthy natural diet. A healthy pet will be less likely to be picked by fleas and ticks.
Kristian Schroeder
2025-07-30 04:09:36
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Essential oils have been used for centuries as natural remedies for various ailments in humans and animals. Rose geranium is a sweet, yet strong smelling, essential oil. Because ticks live off their sense of smell, and they evidently do not like the scent of rose geranium, this essential oil works wonders to keep ticks away from you and your dog while being all natural. Make your own tick repellent spray using distilled water, drops of rose geranium essential oil and either vodka or witch hazel to disperse the oil throughout the water. Discuss the dosage with your vet before trying this repellent.
Citrus is a natural repellent for many insects. Citrus works against ticks too. Boil the peels of lemons and oranges, then let them cool at room temperature in the water for 24 hours. Once your mixture is cool, the natural citrus oil will seep from the fruit rinds and into your water. This water can be strained and poured into a spray bottle.
Apple cider vinegar is an easy-to-use natural tick repellant. You can add a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar per quart of water to your dog’s water bowl to keep ticks away from your dog. Apple cider vinegar can also be mixed with water to make a tick repellant spray. Mix ½ apple cider vinegar to ½ water and mix before spraying your dog’s coat. This simple spray can be applied once every morning before heading outside to keep ticks off your dog.
Doyle Conroy
2025-07-30 00:13:23
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Stop ticks from biting your pet by using a tick treatment that either kills or repels them if they attach themselves. There are different types of treatments, such as spot-on treatments and tablets. Ask your vet for the best tick treatment. Be careful, never use dog tick medicine on cats or vice versa. Some dog tick treatments contain chemicals that are toxic to cats, and can even be fatal to them.
Alisa Jenkins
2025-07-30 00:00:03
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Include raw garlic in their diet: Cut up a clove of garlic, and keep it aside for 10-15 mins. This releases allicin, the active ingredient in garlic. Feeding this to your dog, will help the smell of garlic escape through the skin and repel both ticks and fleas. Use 1/2 teaspoon for every 7 kgs of weight. Apple cider Vinegar: This wonder ingredient not only repels ticks and fleas but keeps your dog healthy too. Ticks are put off by the acidity which comes along with ACV. You can add it to your dogs meals, and spray them with a 50/50 solution of water and ACV pre-walks. Maintain strong immunity: it is important for your dogs to remain healthy and build a great immunity, and a great diet helps with that exactly. Consult a canine nutritionist for a fresh diet for your pet. Tick Off Combo - Our Happy Puppy Organic's Natural Anti-Tick range is powered by neem and a pest repelling blend of essential oils. You can use our Anti-Tick oil as a spot on in the places mentioned in the picture, one drop rubbed into the fur to prevent ticks from latching on.
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