Occasionally I am called upon in my Animal Communication and Healing Practice to help a client deal with fleas or ticks.
My personal philosophy on helping our animal companions stay flea, tick and even heartworm free is by maintaining a strong and healthy immune system by feeding them a 100% natural diet (yes that means real food!) and avoiding placing any toxins either on or near them. While this goes completely against the grain of conventional Veterinary treatment, I do it myself and it works. In fact natural prevention is all I do with my own almost 14 year old Golden Retriever, Jiggs, who is now virtually flea free in an area, know for heavy flea population. I also include regular swims in the healing and very salty ocean water as I find this a wonderfully natural and low cost flea preventative (it also helps his arthritis immensely but that’s for another story). I don’t give Jiggs heartworm medication either, as I have been relying on his vibrant health and salty coat as a preventative.
When clients contact me regarding trouble with fleas and ticks, I always recommend the following:
• Speak to your Holistic Veterinarian about natural prevention and cures
• Find supplements to boost his or her immune system
• Try to make your animal companion as least desirable to these parasites as possible, as they tend to prey on the weaker, less healthy animals
As far as the actual animal communication goes, I use it to connect with the animal to find out what they need and want in relation to immediate treatment and preventative measures. More often than not, if one of my clients notices a flea or two, my first approach is to connect with the fleas themselves. This is a very unconventional approach and is based on the belief that all sentient beings have divine wisdom. They are living beings with their own opinions and perspectives to share and might even just be here as a wake up call for those of us who are ready, urging us to look deeper into the health of our animal companions to see what we can do to boost it.
I first of all thank the fleas for whatever information they are bringing to me or the animal’s guardian, as I find that gratitude goes a long way in negotiating with them. I then explain to them the havoc and discomfort they are causing, assuring them that we have received their message, whatever it may be, loud and clear, and then ask them to move on, or even transmute, by leaving this life form and reincarnating as another. What I do find, is that if they are given a voice and allowed to share their wisdom, they are often very willing to help by moving on. Unfortunately what can often happen in our quick fix world is that we humans get so resistant to them (you’ve all heard the saying ‘what you resist, persists’) that they tend to stay and increase in numbers.
I prefer to put my energy and focus on a healthy vibrant animal companion, and build the energy around that thought rather than giving it to thoughts of the fleas. To some of you, this may sound like ‘pie in the sky’ thinking but I truly have found it to work. Years ago I had a regular client with 12 dogs and 3 cats call me up in a panic. She lives in a high flea area but chooses to use as natural an approach to flea prevention as possible. She had taken a couple of her dogs out to an agility event and when she returned she found a few fleas on one or two of them. She was mortified! If they had spread through the pack and to the cats it could be disastrous and she would need her whole house fumigated, and this was something she was definitely against. I used my communication skills to talk to the animals in the home and the fleas and taught her how to connect with them herself (she was a past student of mine) and ‘low and behold’ the fleas chose not to take up residence in her house.
I know for some of you that I may be stretching your comfort zone by suggesting these methods but in my decade plus practice, I have seen positive results and much prefer this method to using harmful products that weaken the animals immune systems further and therefore increase the vicious cycle of making them more susceptible to the fleas. Can I convince you to talk to your holistic vet about this?
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