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If you have pets, you probably have used flea treatments.  One of the more popular methods is to put a medication onto the skin of the pet.  This medicine then absorbs into the skin and spreads through the blood stream to the entire body.  This medicine then causes the skin and/or hair to be toxic enough to kill fleas. 

Have you really thought about this?  I know fleas are small, but how much poison do we have to put into a pet in order to make its skin or hair toxic enough to kill anything.  Not surprisingly, the EPA has confirmed that this is, in fact, dangerous to the pet.  Well, duh?

I am just as guilty because I have used these treatments, but it is time to make a change.  We have purchased diatomaceous earth and are going to try using that.  It is organic and supposed to be very effective.  On top of that it is way cheaper than the dangerous chemicals in traditional flea treatments . . . wow cheaper and healthier.

Check out the article then do some research on diatomaceous earth.  It has lots of uses other than just a flea treatment.

Products intended to treat cats and dogs for fleas and ticks injure thousands of pets each year and kill hundreds more, the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday as it outlined plans to make the products safer.

Flea products can sicken, kill pets :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Pets

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