How to Get Rid of Fleas on Dogs Without Toxic Chemicals
By learning how to get rid of fleas on your dog, without the use of toxic chemicals, you can not only save your dog’s life, but your wallet as well. Common and highly toxic pesticides that masquerade as safe flea treatments are, in fact, derivatives of nerve gas. Each time you use them, your dog’s health drops another degree, or three.
How much better it would be if you knew what causes fleas on dogs. At least then you had a chance to figure it out.
The cause of fleas on dogs is, in most cases, the diet with which they are fed. Commercial dog food alters the pH of your dog’s body, which then becomes irresistible to fleas and thus they breed outside of their natural order and control.
By feeding your dog a natural diet, based on its evolution, you are maintaining its natural body pH. Fleas can’t survive in this, so they can’t reproduce.
Let’s compare a typical commercial dog food with which dogs evolved.
A wild dog will generally hunt in packs, taking down a well-muscled prey animal. This means that the food is of quality, with little fat, some organ meats and lots of juicy raw bones. Dogs also eat carrion, so they can eat rotten food quite happily, as long as it’s raw.
By comparison, many commercial dog food manufacturers often source their “meat” from processing plants, where dead animals such as euthanized pets and horses, road kills, laboratory animals, and slaughterhouse waste are shipped, as all fat is not desired. Carcasses can sit for days before being processed.
Processing uses high pressures and temperatures, destroying what little nutrition there was. The result is called ‘meat by-products’. This is then stuffed with a cheap filler like melamine, sugar, any cheap grain that is often unfit for human consumption for various reasons, walnut shells, and the like.
Then, to address the nutritional deficit, isolated and synthetic ‘nutrients’ are added, which are not easily digested at best and can cause harm at worst.
Other chemical additives preserve, color, flavor, improve texture and smell, stimulate appetite, etc.
Can there be a comparison? Do you wonder why your dog has fleas? Maybe you would too, on the same diet.
