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Apple Cider Vinegar Flea Treatment for Dogs

| Modified on Jun 16, 2019
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Apple Cider Vinegar
Posted by Martie (Carmel) on 08/30/2017
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Apple cider vinegar solution on bottom of spine and scruff of neck has been a life saver! We have such an issue with fleas because it is dog heaven in Carmel! I use Advantage on my dogs but still fleas jump on them on every walk and one of my dogs goes crazy chewing his tail raw from the fleas... within minutes he causes the area to bleed and then starts whimpering because the wound on his tail hurts so much. Poor baby! I apply a hot spot tea tree oil spray but sometimes it makes him run around because the spray burned him. I feel so bad!!

Any way, yesterday I found the Apple Cider Vinegar method for fleas and applied it by dripping 1/2 organic apple cider vinegar and half water from a cotton ball onto the scruff of his neck and then as close to his tail as I could without touching the wounds he had caused (the whole area around his bum and up and down his tail has scabs on it.

There was NO CHEWING or SCRATCHING last night. No new wounds this morning. Thank God. I am going to keep applying the Apple Cider Vinegar to both areas morning and night even though my dogs for sure don't like it!

To anyone trying this... please be very careful not to let the ACV solution touch a raw or red area on your furry friend. But it is very effective. I am guess fleas just don't like the smell of it and stay off them, right? Is that why it helps?

Apple Cider Vinegar
Posted by Charlotte (Fairfield, CT) on 08/08/2017
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We have a lot of fleas this summer. I have been squeezing a cotton ball that has been soaked in ACV (50/50 ACV and Water) to the back of my dogs' necks and at the base of the spine every morning while they eat. They don't notice it this way and shake it off immediately! So it gives the ACV an extra minute to soak in.

I did not give them their monthly flea medication liquid on the back of their necks because I wanted to see if this natural method would work okay. They are biting and scratching much less since I started the ACV treatment two weeks ago.

It's easy to forget to apply the ACV in the morning, so I keep my cotton balls out on the kitchen counter so I don't forget.



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