Daaaangggg....I didn't have this problem before I had cats! TICKS!
I just found a tick on my side! EWWWWWWW
Last week I found one on my leg!
This is NOT ok! I've had my dog for several years, she goes in and out of the front yard without it ever being a problem.
Murder is the only one that goes out and roams…..it has to be her. I doubt she will ever let me hold her long enough to check her.
They all have the pill that kills fleas and ticks.
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Yeah, but the pill only kills the tick when it bites. Little pests can still ride in on fur.
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I've pulled a total of 3 ticks off of my cat this season so far and he is an INDOOR only cat!
I hate them bugs with a passion and this year has been really bad for them due to the very mild winter here.
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So far I haven't seen or heard of a single tick around here. The occasional winter time dip to less than -30° does have some advantages.
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Not uncommom for us to find one on a cat or dog but My wife has found three ticks on her self this year
our best guess one of the cats that comes in and goes out (hobo he is about 13 or 14 yrs old now ) brought the presents to her lucky none had set up shop before she found them
So far I have not ben blessed with one which is surprising as I mow the grass and get into some low hanging bushes and tree branches while mowing the back sections hope my luck holds out
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Tick free here, and thankful.
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We treat Martha with a medication that goes on her back and spreads itself all over her. I have never seen a tick on her…. Now I have picked up a few myself this year while out fishing or working around the farm.. It has been a bad year for them overall..
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Move to Kalif. I've heard rumors that it's tick free if you are deep into one of the big cities like LA or SF.
The ticks in the brush in Kalif are getting burned but do not move into the burned areas, it's going to rain eventually and more problems.
If you move to Kalif and find a tick on yourself or they have ticks, it will be the least of your worries.
Sorta in the same category of,
if you get a severe cough that will just not go away, take a strong laxative and you will swallow the cough when you feel it coming.
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The Beagle Daisy brings in ticks, even though we treat her with expensive flea/tick medicine.
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Our dogs are in and out all day.I give them a monthly pill called Trifexis.Its prescription from a vet and expensive,but we never find a flea or tick on either dog.One of the dogs is a Jack Russell shorty and he is in,over and under everything but still tick and flea free.
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I think some of the so called flea and tick medicines cause the ticks to just drop off the animal before they die, I have had a few this year just not act normal crawl slowly and such, as if they are poisened but not normal before they die, they then get a ride down the toilet to die in peace………..
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I had a little copper nose beagle show up about two months ago and I felt really sorry for him. He absolutely had wads of ticks on him, probably 50 or better in each ear and all over his body . I put him in the kennel and called the vet and they gave me a Nexgard pill. I gave him the pill and within 48 hours every tick on him was dead. It works thru the blood stream. They all fell off in a few days. It also takes care of fleas. Cost was $30 and lasts a month.
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Use to hunt around Union, SC, last of December.
I figured we were doing the deer favor by giving them a lead pill as their underside was heavily tick infested.
Very rare to find a tick here, I use a granular pesticide on yard areas. Seems to keep them at bay even with all the wild critters running around, squacks, bear, rabbits, bear, hicoons, you name it.
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I will guess about six or seven years ago,give or take we had huge fle problem the vet told us it was a bad year and had many people coming in for the same reason
Any way we gave our dogs a pill suggested by the vet . Supposed to last 6 months at the time it had not been out that long but remember countless tv Comercials about it
i can't rememer which one by name the med was. However, was not what I would call cheap, but in no time, like a day or three it killed all the fleas even the ones the out side cats had .
that part, amazed us it wiped out every fle . and saved us another trip to the vet with the cats
It was Worst year for fles I can remember, and as I stated, the vet said they had not seen such a bad year also . I am sure the vets loved the $ $ part of it
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Lyme disease. Time to wear those flea and tick collars around your ankles.
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We use Simparica Trio. It works on fleas, ticks and heartworms. I buy it from Canadapetcare.com and no prescription is needed. Very good product.
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My brother in law has that meat allergy because of a tick bite…..its very difficult to work around his problem as far as meals are concerned. He can't have beef or pork, no gelatin, no marshmallows, no sausage casings that are pork/beef based (even if it is "turkey" they'll use beef for the casings sometimes.)
I used to treat the yard with spectracide granules. I would get the big bag, dump it in the spreader and walk the entire front yard where the dogs area is. It kept the fleas and ticks from ever being a problem. Before we moved here, they didn't have a "yard" but we kept them inside and would let them out to go to the bathroom, they didn't wander far. So, the drop on their neck or the pills were our solution to keep things under control.
Since we've had the yard for the dogs for the past several years I've not had any issues like what I've had lately.
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permethrin is your friend. check it out, google. when i had several outside animal i used it during the summer as a dip. very safe to use.
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Permethrin not so good it can kill a cat they lick it off their fur and lights out
Good for dogs and goat's and I am sure many more all good
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I look like I hear voices and I'm being tickled by ghosts from time to time.
Its caused me to think everything I feel MIGHT be a tick.
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I look like I hear voices and I'm being tickled by ghosts from time to time.
Its caused me to think everything I feel MIGHT be a tick.
a big ole glass of vodka will get rid of that……………….
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Get some Guinea Hens
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Or possums. Tick eliminators al la natural.
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From 1998 to 2002 there was a vaccine called LIMErix for humans. 2 shots the first year & then a booster each year. I had it & ticks fell off dead. That is until they cancelled it. After 2 years, it wore off. Different reasons why it went away, from side affects, to anti-vaccine mania, to not enough sales.
They're supposed to be working on new vaccines. Heck, sign me up for the old LIMErix. It worked for me.
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Been my past experience, if you have one, you have thousands. Get a handle on it. Good luck
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Get some Guinea Hens
She'll want to kill them and the critters they'll attract will want to eat them.
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When I lived in Georgia I gad a huge Tomcat named Batman. In a regular, little suburban yard there I had about 20 fire ant nests. I got the poison and killed all the fire ants. A month later, I noticed that Batman was bringing ticks into the house, even though I had him on the flea and tick medicine.
I asked myself, "What do fire ants eat?" I figured they probably would eat ticks. I left the yard alone, and being central Georgia, in 3 months I had 20 fire ant nests again. A month later the ticks were gone. I proved that Georgia fire ants will wipe out the local tick population.
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Guinea fowl have long been kept for their ability to keep home sites free of insects (particularly ticks) and they are born alarm systems (like peafowl) as well.
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Get some Guinea Hens
We call her murder for a reason…..just this morning there was a shockingly large gut pile on my front porch. I'm guessing she got herself a large squirrel.
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Wow….who knew???
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Guinea Hens do eat bugs, but they make god awful noise and wonder all over onto other properties and bother your neighbor's, the guy on the next property "had" about 25 of them… I only see one once in awhile now and it learned to be quite around my place… I'd rather have just regular chickens they eat bugs also without the noise.
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