Nick shares a three-part flea and tick strategy using herbal supplements like Verm-X mixed into food, plus external sprays with essential oils including lemongrass, rose geranium, and cedarwood. He recommends DermaDog Insect Defense Spray and the American-made Cedarcide line as pharmaceutical-free alternatives.
Non-pharmaceutical means. Bren has just shown us the dreaded pharmaceuticals, and they are generally quite effective, but they have other effects on you, the dog, the family, and the planet. I use a 3-point approach, guys, in order to try to hit dogs really, really hard in order to not have to use the pharmaceuticals. So we'll go from the inside, work outside. So on the inside you can either use Vermex, do Verm-X, do a product called Flea and Tick, okay, and it's herbs, you put them in the food and 99% of dogs will tolerate them very, very well, and they make you slightly, make the dog slightly less attractive to fleas and ticks. What about on the outside? There's two products that I use. Number one product, which I think is fantastic, it's a DermaDog Insect Defense Spray, okay, and it contains amazing things like lemongrass, rose geranium. That's the— that's one of the keys. The other one is cedarwood, cedarwood oil, and that's really, really important. Which leads us on to the other one, which is an American product called Cedarcide. C-E-D-A-R, like the tree, C-I-D-E. The regular one is called Cedarcide. The super— the extra strong is called Cedarcide Extra. So if you're in a really ticky area, that's definitely the one to go for.
