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  • From: "Marc Winterburn" <marcw AT iinet.net.au>
  • To: <bob AT akasha.net>, "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Keeping ticks off a farm dog
  • Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 09:21:50 +0800

Plant fennel round the kennel it keeps the fleas and ticks away from the
sleeping /Resting dogs at least it does here in the land of Oz.
Kind Regards
Marc Winterburn
The Oz Chilli Man


"A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves."
- Bertrand de Jouvenel


----- Original Message -----
From: <bob AT money-net.com>
To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 2:29 AM
Subject: RE: [Market-farming] Keeping ticks off a farm dog


> Fresh thyme or catnip or mint just about any of the really aromatic fresh
> oils repel ticks. For the radical treatment eucalyptus oil, camphor and
the
> like. PS the dog will not like it at all.
> I observed the neighborhood cats come and roll in my fresh thyme to get
rid
> of ticks and fleas so I tried it on the dog - seemed to work. Some times
if
> they are licking a wound to much I put some Tiger balm on the wound and
that
> works well. I have not found anything to keep the dog from coating his
neck
> fur with what ever dead and decaying filth of extreme high odor content he
> can find after a bath.
> Bob C
>
> Just wondered how other people kept ticks off their working dogs.
>
> Dorene
>
> Dorene Pasekoff, Coordinator
> St. John's United Church of Christ Organic Community Garden
>
>
>
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