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sarahcarp · 09-06-2008, 11:40 AM

A friend of mine that has two yorkies fed her girls garlic pills that she got at the pet store (it was one of those health food pet stores) and she would hide one pill for each dog in their separate bowls once a day and her dogs never gots fleas because the garlic in the dogs system in repellent to fleas. It doesn't have any nasty side effects (bad breath or nasty stools) according to her and I never noticed any when I kept them for her while she traveled. It seemed to work really well. I too have had flea problems with my yorkies, and frontline and advantage never seemed to work so I just had to keep everything really really clean, wash their bedding and mine alot as well as bathe them with flea shampoo, vacuum alot and use a flea comb.

charlya · 09-08-2008, 08:55 AM

Nope not one flea in the water bowl. I left it out all weekend and not a single one. I haven't seen any fleas on him since I bathed him in Dawn and treated him with the Advantage so we'll see. Thanks everyone!

09-06-2008, 11:40 AM	#16
sarahcarp Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: oceanside, CA. U.S.A. Posts: 40 Blog Entries: 1	garlic pills A friend of mine that has two yorkies fed her girls garlic pills that she got at the pet store (it was one of those health food pet stores) and she would hide one pill for each dog in their separate bowls once a day and her dogs never gots fleas because the garlic in the dogs system in repellent to fleas. It doesn't have any nasty side effects (bad breath or nasty stools) according to her and I never noticed any when I kept them for her while she traveled. It seemed to work really well. I too have had flea problems with my yorkies, and frontline and advantage never seemed to work so I just had to keep everything really really clean, wash their bedding and mine alot as well as bathe them with flea shampoo, vacuum alot and use a flea comb.

09-08-2008, 08:55 AM	#17
charlya Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Allen, Tx Posts: 10	Nope not one flea in the water bowl. I left it out all weekend and not a single one. I haven't seen any fleas on him since I bathed him in Dawn and treated him with the Advantage so we'll see. Thanks everyone!