Flys Off Review
One of the bad things about summer around the dog yard is the flies. We are situated between cows to the West, and horses to the east. That means there is no shortage of stable flies around the dog yard in the hot months of summer. In the average year, they show up sometime in late June, and stick around until late August. They seem to enjoy the hot temperatures of summer.
They are harder to control than your regular house fly. House flies are attracted to decaying material, and there are plenty of very effective attactants on the market that make them easy to capture. Stable flies are attracted to large, dark shapes and carbon dioxide. There are contraptions that simulate the size and shape of cows that emit low levels of carbon dioxide and rely on knocking the flies out of the air and drowning them in water. They are a little pricey and take up a fair amount of space, so we opt to deter the existing flies from getting on the dogs.
The stable flies are blood suckers, and the easiest place for them to suck the
blood from a dog in on the ears. Left untreated, the flies will continue to
feed from the ears, large amounts of crusty blood will accumulate on the
dogs' ears, and scar tissue can even form. The best way we have found to
keep the flies off is
Flys-Off Fly Repellent Ointment
The ointment comes in a plastic jar, and is thick like a paste. To apply, I use latex gloves, scoop a little ointment onto my index finger, dab the ointment onto each ear, then massage it in real good. The dogs are pretty good about letting me do it. Some try to rub it off right away by rolling in the dirt, but it sticks to the ears well.
The ointment makes their ears sticky, and it attracts dirt, so the white
dogs have brown or black ears, but this is a minor side effect. Flys Off also
makes an
aerosol spray
Overall I highly recommend
Flys-Off Fly Repellent Ointment
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