Skystar66
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I have a project I could use some help with.
I'm making a flea powder for my Golden Retriever and hope to find a 'food grade' inert that will disable fleas but not hurt my dog if he licks it off
his fur.
Potassium sorbate
Corn gluten meal
Putrescent whole egg solids
Corn oil
Sesame (includes ground sesame plant)
Eugenol
Sodium lauryl sulfate
Geraniol
White pepper
Lauryl sulfate
Are all these powders (as opposed to oil or liquid)?
Are any 'granular' (like salt as opposed to baking soda)?
Are any destructive or poisonous to insects?
Thank you,
Michael
rjw4244 [at] gmail.com
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CHRIS25
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I hate to state the obvious but I feel I have to since I do not know who you are. Firstly a google search will answer all of the above ingredients;
secondly, well..I see you have Corn oil and then ask:"Are all these powders (as opposed to oil or liquid)"? thirdly, why not search for the
manufacturers' listings of ingredients in flea powders as a starter, either online via manufacturers codes and funny numbers or by going to a shop
with a pen and paper. And lastly I doubt whether the Physics forum was a suitable place to put this question.....there are quite a few dog forums
that would help though.
I do not want to appear to be rude, but maybe people might help if they were given some of your background reasoning behind wanting to make the flea
powder instead of buying it.
Kind Regards
[Edited on 21-7-2012 by CHRIS25]
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blogfast25
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Nobody uses flee 'powders' anymore. Drops that are put at the back of the neck of the animal are very effective, have no side effects and the animal
can't reach that spot easily. Consult a vet, not a science forum.
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bbartlog
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'Disable' fleas? You could (possibly) drive them away, or else kill them. I don't think you can exactly disable them. Anyway, why are you trying to
mix up your own flea powder? Do you have an objection to commercial offerings?
FWIW my dog has fleas (as do some of my carpets, now :-( ) and at my wife's insistence we have thus far used only relatively non-poisonous treatments:
flea comb, diatomaceous earth, some repellent sprays based on essential oils. Remarkably ineffective, overall!
I am probably going to get some pyrethrin-based flea killer and use that, next. I can understand avoiding imidacloprid (such as in Advantage) due to
its implication in colony collapse disorder, but pyrethrins are no less natural than geraniol and eugenol and are vastly more toxic to fleas.
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chemrox
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I love dogs. Please give yours the love and respect he deserves by getting the drops.
"When you let the dumbasses vote you end up with populism followed by autocracy and getting back is a bitch." Plato (sort of)
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actually some dogs get seizures with the flea drops although not all dogs and only if you use more than recommended. i know because my dog had
seizures and i could never figure out what was causing them and i started to google like mad. the vet thought it was epilepsy but my dog would only
have seizures right before or after it rained.after googling some more i accepted that it was a rabies shot which dogs only need once in their
lifetime but since texas erradicated rabies from dogs they will not release a dog without a rabies shot if it is picked up by the dog catcher.my dog
never recovered and the seizures would render him blind for an hour after every fit. i miss my dog Barrabas and for many nights after he was gone i
would look out my bedroom window and hallucinate him sleeping in different areas in my backyard.keep looking and looking and asking and asking.it is
worth it.
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