The advertising jingle "dawn takes grease out of your way" is actually a fact. Dawn is used by environmental agencies for a number of things because of this. For instance, with oil spills, ducks are washed in dawn...it takes the oil off. The same idea applies to the fleas...the slick nature of the ingredients in dawn causes fleas to wash right off. It does NOT prevent fleas, nor kill them...just causes them to fall off. However, I personally would not want to use it long term on a regular basis. It is great for getting a flea problem under control, but once under control, should only be used as needed. Just as it "takes grease out of your way" it also takes oils off....needed oils.
Marsha Do not tell God how big your storm is. Tell the storm how big your God is. ----- Original Message ----- From: Karen Chandler To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 11:43 PM Subject: [Chihuahuas] Re: Bathing & Fleas My daughters Chi had a severe allergic reaction to fleas (fleas acted like a neurotoxin to the dog) and her vet put him on amoxicillin and prednisone. Said to avoid problems with some of the meds for fleas as they can also be neurotoxic, to just bathe her Chi's once a week with Dawn dishsoap and now she has been doing it and not had a problem since, so I started to bathe mine with Dawn. I do not know why or the reasoning behind it but have not had a flea problem so will continue since her dog had gotten so sick. If anyone knows of this or knows how it works I would love to know more. Faithful to Dawn dishsoap now and my dogs are healthy. Karen --- In [email protected], "Toshia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't want to use flea shampoo on my Chi because I'm worried about > it being too harsh on his skin. Does anyone have a good alternative? > Also does anyone use the Vet Flea Drops? K9 Advantix, Frontline, ect > on their chi? I'm not sure where to go with this. He's only 5 lbs > and all the meds are for dogs up to 10lbs. Thanks for your advice. > > Toshia >
