Garlic is a great flea retardant but will also thin your dogs blood. If you run your dogs with vests you should be ok... but if you don't run vests thin blood = bleed out when your buddy gets cut down.
Garlic may very well thin the blood a little but it does not thin it to the consistency of water. I have had several dogs cut in the last year, some pretty good, and none of them bled profusely due to thin blood. In fact, the difference is not noticeable by the human eye. I'm sure that it does thin the blood to some degree but that has not caused any problems for me.
Ill keep using it because I sure do like not having a flea one on my place.
Steve