I'm all for Natural and non toxic! But being disabled and having 5 cats-there's just NO way I could do this. Thank you though for this and ALL you do❗❤🐈🐕
TY so much for ALL of your helpful advice! I use DA on my fur babies and I found a little trick. I add some of the powder to a small sock and use it to gently powder them all over, it really helps to get into those hidey places where the fleas like to go. Afterwards I give the babies lots of love and really work it into their coat. We use it in our yards and have converted our neighbors, it really helps!
We used diatomaceous earth on our animals and in our home and it is the only thing that has worked so well for flea control on our animals and home. I HIGHLY recommend it and we drowned our home in it and we were all fine.
You are the best vet ever... You actually care more about the welfare of animals than being greedy... I love your combination of science, ethics, nature & altruism. Thank you so very much, from all the animals in my family, & me. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🇬🇧💞🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾
Absolutely agree!!! Most vets out there just want to sell people that topical poison to put on their furbabies. When those people's critters come up with brain tumours & such, I bet they'll wish they hadn't used the poisons.
A true vet will never push a topical insecticide on any animal , unless necessary . I like the Honesty that you give to your viewers and to your pet owners patients .
I've used this before. I never had a problem with it. I also used it on the carpet and furniture and it does work but not instantly. I also used it in the garden and lawn because it works well on ants 🐜. The food grade version can be ingested by animals and humans also. It makes a great dewormer and gets rid of intestinal parasites. You should move to the USA because we love our alternative medicine doctors and vets!!!
Glad I saw your comment as I adopted a 3 1/2 year old GSD and he has tapeworm, probably had them when I got him but I’m giving him DE food grade and it’s working!!
Thank you!!!Have used this for years! Sprinkle it on doggies beds, blankets and around. Before the flea season begins, I start at my back door, then work out from there. On fold of stairs, on patio, and then circumference of yard outward. We live in rural area with animal life and their fleas are huge. Weather conditions must be dry, if it rains application goes again. I buy a huge bag at feed store to do this. Apply both back and front areas, but primarily where dogs most activity. I hope this helps anyone with those terrible fleas.
Do you sprinkle it around and leave it on the dogs bed and floor, or do you sprinkle it and clean up after a day ( Dr. Jones suggests to shower the dog after 24 hours ) ?
Most of what I out on Dogs will fall as they move around going for water, food, etc. Like when one applies those chemicals down their spine, some of this powder will fall down to the skin, I leave it on. Do this after a bath and when they are well dried. Same with Beds, blankets and around their beds. Most of it will get cleaned or swiped away when I clean around the area, but pretty much leave it until I bathe and wash again in a month or if they get soiled. Thank you
It's been 6 years since I've used food grade diatomaceous earth for flea control and deworming my Maltese. It also works for human parasite control. My veterinarian here in Israel learned from me and gave it to her daughter who had a bad reaction to the pharmaceutical medication meant to kill her abdominal parasites.
I mix mine with neem powder & Yarrow powder to also calm the itchy skin & heal small wounds. It works like charm & smells very nice & gentle. We use an old fat makeup brush to apply & also sprinkle it on the pet beds, on our carpets & upholstery & vacuum regularly. Viola! No fleas!
We moved into a property that was infested with fleas. We used D.E all over the house and it worked a treat! We also use it on live stock and for intestinal parasites too xxx
@@samename6479 Check the bag, it might say equine on it. Meaning, for horses. I got a bag at Tractor Supply once and thought I was getting human grade food grade, but found out that it was for livestock. Not human grade. For around a litter box or for treating all the floorboards or furniture, it's ok. Plus lots of vacuuming. We had a flea infestation once and I think I vacuumed like, twice a day, everywhere in the house, for almost 3 months before there were no more fleas. Good luck with your D.E. experience!
Something I do to help fight fleas in the house: I put everything in a hot dryer for about 5 mins... Fleas can't live in hot dry environments, so this kills them quick; from adults to eggs!
@@Floppycats about once a week or so . I usually do it outside and put the powder in one of those new mustard or ketchup bottles and squirt it on them and fluff it around.
I can say, from diatomaceous dust cloud experience, it caused little to no ill effect. It was my first time doing it, there were 4 dogs and a bunch of cats and i took them out to the yard and dusted them but they would shake themselves and it was an absolute cloud! I did use a lot because most were long haired and i was waging war againt a flea infestation that was so bad and so resistant to pesticides, you could directly spray them and they were fine. So i went crazy. But it worked! I definitely breathed in a bunch of it and no issues. Nowadays i go a lot lighter, but food grade diatomaceous earth and a dawn bath once a week knocks out flea infestation. Its a harsh routine, i feed my pets fish oil to help with the dry skin, but its temporary and better than poisons and constant flea battle
I use it around my cat litter boxes to keep beetles out during the summer when it's hot and they're looking for moisture. it also works well along door jams and windowsills to keep the ants out. I will never apply the topical insecticides to any of my pets. Diatomaceous earth is so useful, I love it! I found it at my local lawn & garden store in the fertilizer section. :)
Please make sure it is food grade for use on and around pets! If it was at a lawn and garden center they may carry the dangerous type of DE. It is processed and contains toxins. Food/human grade is the safe one 😊
And why wouldn’t you use it topical on pet? A little drying but fleas carry disease and can cause anemia. Not many other options out there. Fleas are resilient and don’t die easily
I have been using it for years. The caution is to make sure it is the food/horticulture grade not the pool grade. The pool grade is highly toxic and used in pool filters.
I've used DE on my chickens, ducks & for ants but never thought to use it on my dogs. Great idea. DE is wonderful. I've never lost a chicken or duck from DE. If your worried about them ingesting it make sure to have fresh water available, its safe for humans to use as drink.
We place some of it in our rug deodorizer and let it sit before vacuuming. We've been using it over 20 years on our dogs. We get ours at the Tractor Supply Company or any local farm and tractor.
I also helps get grease off of them. Must be food grade. I believe it’s made from fossilized plankton. It’s also used if it’s mfood grade as a dewormer. I use it on my veggie plants all the time. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️❤️🐾❤️🐾🐾🐾🐾💪🏻🖖🏻
Would you mind sharing with me the various ways in which you use DE and whether you've had any concerns or cautions for it's use? Thank you for anything you care to share.
@sheri4673 I also use it as a deformed for my 🐈 and chicken 🐔. I add a small amount to their food periodically. When I first heard about DE, I was scared to try it. But I'm glad I did.
Both my cat and my yorkie rub up on the bag and sit by it until I put the diatomaceous earth on them. At a tractor supply company you can get a large bag of food grade diatomaceous earth. You can also sprinkle it in the yard if you have sand fleas out there. When I sprinkle it on the carpet my cat will roll around in it like it's catnip. Been using it for about four years. Works very well.
I've been using diatomaceous earth (food-grade) for years. And it has been very effective. Thank you for confirming. I appreciate all your videos. I've even used it, when the conditions are right, around the foundation of my house.
Jovalle Puhrmann Agreed! I use it outside across the door jams of my house and along the outside windowsills to keep ants out of my house. It's cheap and effective. :)
@@jameswinfree3175 I've just bought 2 kg off ebay for £11.98. Or 1 KG for £6.90 These prices include P&P I'm very impressed with that! This gives me enough for my 2 dogs, 11 cats, the whole house, garden, car AND give some away to other pet ppl to try. as well as have a good stock for future use. It's food grade as well....
The best flea control or elimination, in my case at least, is coconut laundry soap bars. Here in Brazil it's very easy to find. It kills all the fleas on the animal! Believe me. It does. The vacuum cleaner is your best ally in your fight against flea eggs. They hide in rugs, carpets, in the blankets/beds your pets sleep on, and if you have wooden floors keep an eye open for gaps between the planks of wood. There are products you could use on the floor. Fun (maybe not that fun) fact: flea eggs can live for over a year as eggs. I got rid of the rugs and my pet's beds and blankets. I have a cat. They sleep anywhere. Your bed, couches, chairs, boxes... I, personally, don't like carpets or rugs. So I never put them back. If you do, maybe have them professionally cleaned.
Yes, I got a kick out of your "not so fun-fact"! Been there - I actually was going over all of the piping on our couch to make sure there were no eggs anywhere; had to buy special hand held vacuums for some of the places that had to be cleaned. So glad that is over. Another thing you can do as far as bedding or, in our case, cloth toys that our one cat was really attached to: If it's small enough to go in a plastic bag and then in the freezer, put it in there, for like 2 weeks or so then launder them when they come out of the deep freeze. I am not sure if that will get the eggs (I think it does) but it gets them at every other stage. You know, if the eggs are laying around somewhere and someone walks past, the vibration of their steps can actually trigger the flea to break out of the shell, and then you have one jumping around till it gets on the cat. I think someone said very hot temperatures kills them in the egg stages, so sometimes we would put the heat on (this was in July/August/Sept for us) and keep it on for several hours at a time, along with a woodstove fire to heat up the house and kill any eggs I didn't get with the vacuum or with hand mopping the floor. What a nightmare. I agree with you about carpets - don't have any wall-to-wall ones, but I do have an area rug in two rooms. Does this coconut laundry soap have a name? Is it Zote?
I use on my cats been 1.5 years. It's organic food grade. When an out break happens I use a small amount sometimes daily. The one cat licks it off it can be immediately. I have put in the carpet. I think the flea liquids are really bad. This stuff does work! I am using the CBD oil from you keeps the coat shiny.
I do this on my dogs and use on my chickens as well. My only complaint is when they decide to shake right next to you it does create the dust cloud. I definitely recommend over those harmful drops for sure. Thanks again friend!!!
This video came just at the right time. I had just been thinking of searching your channel for natural flea control products. You must have sensed it! :-)
My dog had fleas for the first year or 2 of her life. I used DE as well as trifexus from vet. I started researching & found out about raw fed dogs. I started raw feeding my golden at a year old.she is 13 1/2 . Hasn't had fleas for over 10 years. I Don't use any flea prevention. She has nice soft skin & that isn't what fleas are looking for. Thank you Dr for your ❤ for dogs Tula so wants to please you! She's adorable!
Really love watching your vids, Dr. Jones! Always something interesting and helpful! As a rescue mom for cats, you've saved me so much money! I can't thank you enough! THANKS for thinking of the pets FIRST and the $ as a 'bonus' to your job! Also; I'm so tired of the toxic products and foods that are being marketed for our fur babies these days! Thank goodness you have much better recommendations and products!! THANK YOU!
You are amazing. Every issue that our Lhasa Apso has you have covered. I am a natural health provider for humans and your recommend things that I have in my house and that I recommend to my patients. Thank you 💝
I just finished covering my goats, chickens, dogs and cats in DE- I use it to kill hard shelled insects in the garden too!! We use it to detoxify ( banana/ kale/apple milkshakes)ourselves too!!!
I used it for awhile on my dog and her coat became super dry. She started scratching more from the dry skin than any fleas. So use caution. It is not for my dog. I make homemade flea repellent with lemons and apple cider vinegar. Good for the coat and effective at repelling fleas.
I did not find it to be effective as well as drying out their skin. I wish it did! I hate the toxic chemical drugs. I bought food grade from two different suppliers thinking that maybe I received something that was substandard from the first supplier. I read as soon as you get it wet it doesn't work so I made sure to spread it around the house and didn't wash the floors for 3 days, leaving the powder there, dry. Still, last year I ended up having to buy the pills because they really were suffering with the fleas. I hated having to give them those pills!
@@blaze3884 Frequent vacuuming is the best thing to prevent fleas as well as washing their bedding at least once per week. People should be worried about the next generation of fleas instead of the ones on their dog. I make my own repellent with lemons and apple cider vinegar. Works great.
@Mama Bear You can mix up a flea powder with DE that is easier on their skin. 1 part neem powder, 1 part yarrow powder, 2 parts DE. Neem helps run off the fleas, and the yarrow powder is soothing to the skin. For dogs--but never for cats--you can add a few drops of eucalyptus oil.
@@Floppycats Slice lemons thinly with skin on, cover with water and boil for about ten minutes. Add a bit of rosemary. Let it cool and strain it. You can use it like this. I just put some on my fingers and then rub into the fur. You can also mix with a bit of apple cider vinegar.
I have been using DE on the dogs since one of your previous videos and it works a treat. Tula is lovely! Thanks Dr Jones, you’re a great vet and a nice guy!👍
I have 5 pups & 2 kittys ❤️ 1- do you apply it to cats the same? 2- Do you HAVE to bathe them? Or can you leave it on? 3- will it hurt them if they lick it? 4- can you apply it on the tile & carpet and leave it? Thank you so much❤️🙏
Another super video! I've been using it for years on my furbabies as a flea treatment and on their food to fight off parasite infections. Also great to use on the veggie patch at this time of the year. Thank you.
I use Diatomaceous Earth on all my animals. Including my chickens, Ducks and Geese! Their dust bath. I clean my chicken house and sprinkle it everywhere, especially in the nesting boxes. I put DE in with the chicken's feed too. I also put it in my cat's food and dog's food. It works on carpets too, leave it on for 24 hours, then vacuum.
Yeah my dogs don’t enjoy taking a bath either they want to get out. It is the best time then they’re very happy and excited. Thanks for the video. I really appreciate it. I’m sure we all do. God bless you for being a good honest veterinarian that really wants to help.🥰❤️
The key words here are "food grade" DE. The swimming pool stuff is what can really tear up your sinuses, eyes and lungs. I'm assuming the pool filter kind is ground less fine but from experience it is pretty finely ground!
I bought a huge bag of it years ago from store where you buy feed for livestock, I sprinkled on yard and against house and never had a roach, ant, spider enter my house.
Margie Provencio I have roach baits everywhere but I still see small cockroach baby entering my house so I bought DE hopefully will prevent it thanks 😊
Hello Dr Jones brilliant I always want to learn more of natural way. Thank you for debunking this topic Great 👍🏻 vid and advice too Keep safe too Dr Jones 🥰👍🏻
I also use this orally mixed with water for the dogs diarrhea & it works great! Also used one time as a face mask. I use a food grade one if you want info.
I have used this in my home and it worked great. However I have asthma and had an attack when cleaning it up. If you have breathing problems I would suggest not disturbing it and having someone else clean it up.
@@selinaoakley3613 Great advice. This stuff is very fine and becomes airborne easily and clings to clothing and hair etc. A mask may help but for anyone extremely asthmatic I would still suggest having someone else clean up.
My dog is licking her paws and I was thinking it is allergies, but just now I saw a flea on my hand after petting her, yikes! I am not sure if that there is a connection, but no matter what I have to treat her against fleas. Thank you so much for this video! I happen to have D.E. in my house, I use it for many things and I love that it is natural. You are the best! I can start immediately now to de-flea the house.
Hi i already knew about it but few of my doubts been cleared in this video....thanks a lot... Love from India....Very first time to ur channel and nice knowing u and ur channel, just subscribed
You probably won’t ever get to read this. However. I am wanting to know how to prevent fleas. Not waiting until my dog gets them. Hopefully using this earth product will prevent. Thanks for this wonderful information.
Scrolling through the comments to see if anyone uses it also for ticks on dogs. Arachnids have an exoskeleton made of chiton same as insects (all within the phylum arthropoda). I just don't want to assume DE works for ticks as I live in Australia in an area with the deadly paralysis tick (Ixodes holocylus) is prevalent and can kill dogs fast. I have had a few scares with my dogs over the past 25 years.
I use plain regular table salt , fleas eat the salt - they swell up and pop & i spread it in my carpets too - then vacuum the floors up. And their all gone .
@@kristenmarie9248 When I have used the salt in the house or where ever needed it to be spread around ( the effected part of the home* ) I sometimes shake a little lightly on the coat - thus for ANY remaining fleas/ticks to eat the salt and it will get rid of them - & some pets have rather thick fur - so a light dash of it from neck to tail an a gentle rub down their back letting it flow thru the fur helps those grains filter thru the fur and the bugs go after it - but do* comb thru the fur later in the day and give them a good lathered washing the following day so the salt doesn't irritate the skin. Works very wonderful on my pets. I Generally shake a container of table salt in the carpets or on furniture in the house I know the pet has laid on this attracts the bugs to the salt they eat it swell up & pop & die off - then you use the vaccum and clear out the remaining salt an dead pests.
I love the way you so patiently explain in detail what we need to know....Thank You. Dr Jones; could you help with hot spots... my dog is chewing himself (and me ) crazy and I can't figure out what is causing it; I can't find anything on him; I comb him out everyday, and I make a natural tonic of cedar, olive, ginko, cammomille, alittle home made acv, and coconut oil weekly, and (we call it "spa night") and give him a sponge bath with it, as he hates getting wet; I works great for a while, and then he's right back at it... He just started chewing on himself a few weeks ago... He is a puppy mill victim, and he has a few issues; and I'm wondering if this isn't an emotional nervous thing. How do I stop it; and is there any natural product; herb that might help? I've had a few dogs; and have never had this problem before; it's perplexing to say the least, and I'm worried that he will cause secondary infections.
If theres fleas on your dog, theres fleas on their bedding. **looks over at MY bed**🙄😭😭😭😭😂 I have DE and im so glad i found this video so i can try something more natural. I just used k9 advantix but was scared to used nexguard bc a girl said she gave it to her dog and it had a seisure and died. Thank God for hollistic vets like this man who dont push prescription meds as the starting point!! Thank you
Keeping your dog's bedding flea-free is definitely important. It's wise to be cautious about medications, and holistic approaches can offer valuable options.❤️
I found on researching why the ants kept coming into my house. I found that they have a benefit in my yard, in that they eat flea eggs. So if one is fighting ants outside, you might want to consider they are reducing the flea population and then not kill them but coax them away from entry to your home.
I don't have a problem here with fleas, it's TICKS. I haven't been able to find a natural preventive way for those. I always try, but they fail and then I HAVE to resort to a poison collar unfortunately. If she gets a tick, then we have a chance of getting the ticks on us and that's a really high price to pay. Thank you for this video, this is a great option.
I’ve heard really bad things about the flea collars. One person put one on cat and cat can lick it when washing the cat got mouth cancer a few months later.
you are awesomer! thank you for being on youtube and helping me help my dogs and cats and thank you for your free book its fabulous!! You're The BEST!!!
This helped and I prepared the tea and separate honey mix...I tried the honey and my cat fiercely hissed. He's hiding under the bed and I hope he comes out.
It works in your carpet, rugs & pet beds, all natural, non toxic. It also works on your lawn to kill flees and nourishes your soil. Food grade is also available for human, (& all mammals), consumption for purpose of detoxification and anti parasitic treatment. My animal friends & I consume it daily in water or moist food for detox, anti parasitic & calcium. Organic cattle ranchers use it food for anti parasitic & also calcium. Natural is always better.
This is great. Also, nematodes and then later applying all natural herbal granules in the yard REALLY helps too. If you live in the south like me, that is a must...if not you can probably just get away with the DE alone. So glad Yah gave us natural ways and caring professionals sharing, to deal with life's problems effectively.
My friend went through a whole house infestation and got rid of all of them relatively easily even though he had 4 cats: 1. With a good vacuum, go for it 2x a day making sure to concentrate on the floor and floorboards. Empty the vacuum bag into a plastic bag out on the middle of the street and take a hot shower when you have returned inside your house. 2. Mop up with a light bleach solution EVERYWHERE you can. (a stressor) 3. A low bowl with detergent water mix with a light over it as a heat and light source in every room. They jump right in. 4. Pure food grade diatomaceous earth on furniture, baseboards and as the Dr stated, directly onto puppy or kitty. YOU must treat all animals in the home! I also used top quality flea treatment from the vet onto pets. 5. I used the most popular bug spray product in the gallon size around the baseboards only. Spray NOT aerosol. 6. Washed and dried everything every other day. 7. Took pets OUT of the home and turned the dehumidifier to HIGH as well as the heater to 90' F for 24 hours on Monday and again on Thursday. Fleas were gone in 1 week, found 2 strays that were too weak to even jump on the 15 and 16th day. None on animals... 8. FLEAS WERE DELIVERED TO HIS HOME VIA AN INTERNET PET FOOD COMPANY ! BE CAREFUL AND LOOK AT THE PACKAGING INSIDE AND OUT BEFORE YOU TAKE ANY PRODUCTS INSIDE YOUR HOME ! A pain in the rear end...
Have always watched your Videos and they are very helpful. Have used Diasematios Earth for a few years now buy it by the sackful on Amazon not to be confused with the stuff they use for swimming pools this is for Humans I use it on my Chickens and they have never had mites etc on them or bedding and Ants hate it I sprinkle it around the house where there are Ants and Have used it on my Golden Retriever Dog Gemma who is no longer with me she died this year age 14 years and you have always been there when I needed advice for her and your advice was always helpful so I thank you for that You are a great vet and it shows Rosemary from the UK
I’m from USA and never heard of that product. Is it the same as baking soda because that’s what are you say sprinkle it all over the carpet for the same reason sometimes I put a drop or two of essential oils in there and then it becomes a nice fragrant lavender or whatever you want.
I've use DE but never taken dog a bath after 24hrs... then I apply it again in a week or 2... I even dust outside where she goes potty... thank You Dr. Hope I receive a reply.. thank You so much You are such a Blessing 💞
