actually I have been using garlic for myself as a skeeter repellant for years it works . now dogs don't sweat but , I imagine a feller could make him a spray out of garlic for the dogs . I just use the permethrin 10% and spray my dogs pretty regularly for flies and skeeters as well as fleas . I keep a spray bottle out at the dog yard and will hit their ears where the flies bug them about every other day .
are you diluting the permethrin 10% or sprayin it on em as it comes out of the bottle?
i use a double shot if I'm spraying the houses and the ground, but if I'm spraying the dogs, i use a single concentrate shot. i do add water, but its like 1 shot per gallon for going on the dogs, but if not, its a double to triple shot per gallon of water for everything else