Minutus

This is a great approach.
NEVER USE THIS DE !
IT IS VERY DAMAGING TO THE GUT LINING, THE LUNGS (when groomed) AND
WHATEVER ELSE IT CONTACTS (INCLUDING FLEAS - BUT THE COST IS TOO HIGH)
Oops sorry about the capsloc.

DE does the same damage to gut lining and lungs that it does to fleas
and parasites.
Stick with the brewer's yeast.

Namaste,
Irene
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Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."

Just to clarify, I was not suggesting to use DE on the animals. But
it's useful for killing the ones that are already making themselves at
home in couch, blankets, rug, vacuum cleaner. I tuck it into an
out-of-the-way corner--*under* the couch cushion; or at the *foot* of
my bed (the cats don't sleep there BTW; only my feet) underneath the
sheet; etc. Once the fleas have been gone for a couple of weeks, I
vacuum it up. Fleas travel and explore. I've found this to work just
fine, with no need to spread it far and wide, no need to get it
anywhere that an animal's face or my own will be, just tucked in
between and underneath, in a smallish but strategically located area
for burrowing fleas to find. I guess another possibility would be to
rely on vacuuming more thoroughly than I tend to, and emptying the
cannister more promptly. On one glorious occasion I managed to
vacuum up fleas from the downstairs, then vacuumed upstairs, left the
vacuum up there for several days--et voila, now we had fleas upstairs
too! Yuk... I used to put a bit of flea collar into the cannister to
prevent that, but I like the little bit of DE much better.
Cheers,
Shannon

--- In minutus@yahoogroups.com, Irene de Villiers wrote:

Not cat and dog fleas.
Only rat fleas hop off the animal to lay eggs. Cat and dog fleas HAVE
to stay on the animal or they die.
They stay on the cat or dog where they spend all their time eating
having sex and laying eggs which drop off.
The only way yo might interrupt them is if you put DE under the
chairs on the floor.

Eggs hatch and the larvae would be vulnerable. They travel down and
to darkness by 18 inches or more. You have a small window of
opportunity only.
There they pupate and nothing touches the pupae. When the pupa is
ready to hatch, it does not do so till it detects CO2 from teh breath
and/or floor vibrating from an animal walking - it then hatches and
hops on the individual in one move as the animal walks past.

So there are no cat or dog fleas on the ground much less in the
cushions.
There is no such thing as a burrowing flea:-)
Effective for eggs, but not larvae as they grip the carper fibers hard.
Put a flea collar in the cannister to kill any flea that hatches.
The cannister will not be poisoned by it:-)

DE may be too fine not to get through the cannister air holes

Namaste,
Irene
--
Irene de Villiers, B.Sc AASCA MCSSA D.I.Hom/D.Vet.Hom.
P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."

I suck up a little piece of recycled cotton (from vitamin bottle) dampened with lavender essence or pine essence into the vacuum cleaner before vacuuming the house (or the half that I manage to get done any one time). We have never had flea infestations since I started doing that. I used to use a moth ball, but this is MUCH nicer. Teresa (Northern VA)
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From: minutus@yahoogroups.com [mailto:minutus@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Shannon
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 9:55 PM
To: minutus@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Minutus] Re: Fleas - was Advice on Thyroid issue in people and giving garlic to dogs
Just to clarify, I was not suggesting to use DE on the animals. But
it's useful for killing the ones that are already making themselves at
home in couch, blankets, rug, vacuum cleaner. I tuck it into an
out-of-the-way corner--*under* the couch cushion; or at the *foot* of
my bed (the cats don't sleep there BTW; only my feet) underneath the
sheet; etc. Once the fleas have been gone for a couple of weeks, I
vacuum it up. Fleas travel and explore. I've found this to work just
fine, with no need to spread it far and wide, no need to get it
anywhere that an animal's face or my own will be, just tucked in
between and underneath, in a smallish but strategically located area
for burrowing fleas to find. I guess another possibility would be to
rely on vacuuming more thoroughly than I tend to, and emptying the
cannister more promptly. On one glorious occasion I managed to
vacuum up fleas from the downstairs, then vacuumed upstairs, left the
vacuum up there for several days--et voila, now we had fleas upstairs
too! Yuk... I used to put a bit of flea collar into the cannister to
prevent that, but I like the little bit of DE much better.
Cheers,
Shannon
--- In minutus@yahoogroups.com , Irene de Villiers wrote: