Treating your dog is the first step to flea eradication, but you must also simultaneously eliminate all stages of the flea life cycle in your home and yard.  Thoroughly treat high-traffic areas and locations where your pet spends any time, especially shaded, protected areas where fleas like to incubate.

·        INSIDE:  Bedding should be washed and dried with high heat.  Mop, vacuum and treat the basement, garage, and laundry room.  Discard the vacuum bag outside since hundreds of eggs may have been picked up during cleaning.  Natural borate crystals are non-toxic and easy to apply to your carpet.  They act as a desiccant to dehydrate and kill fleas.  Natural pyrethrum powders are very effective and can b used safely indoors.  Apply them to floors, along baseboards, and under pet sleeping areas.  Use pyrethrum indoors only; it breaks down quickly and harmlessly outside when exposed to sunlight.

·        OUTSIDE:  Treat your yard with diatomaceous earth (purchased at swimming pool supply stores), especially spots where dogs like to nap.  This natural, non-toxic product is made from one-celled plants called diatoms.  Mined from lake bottoms and dried, the inert, finely ground fossil material kills fleas by absorbing and removing the insects’ outer covering.

Source:  The Whole Dog Catalog , By: John Avalon Reed

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