[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Holy Ticks!!!! (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 6/14/2014 10:32:22 AM EDT
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It seems that they are really bad this year. Last week on vacation we pulled 8 off of our shepherd and 2 off of our lab.
Over the last few days we have taken a total of 12 off of the dogs and I had three crawling on me. What are fellow arfcommers using on their dogs to combat these little fuckers? |
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We just moved back to New Hampshire where the ticks have always been bad. We had been using Advantage but our vet suggested Advantick (sp?). The first month with Advantage we found several ticks a day, this month with the Advantick we haven't found one. I have no stock in any of these products. |
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I hate ticks so much that I bought a gallon of Equine flea and tick concentrate , poured it into a hose attachment bottle that mixes hose water and spray it out all in my fenced in backyard. I let it dry for a couple days after a rain in hopes to repel and kill ticks. Naturally I don't let me dog eat or play unsupervised. Wouldn't want her getting sick of course. I don't exactly advise doing what I did lol. |
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Not bad here in Michigan. I was walking my dog and found one digging in on her front leg. Yanked it off. I applied some frontline when we got home. SHIIIITTTT I pull a couple a week off of the dog and a couple of me/my wife a week. S/E lower michigan, in a subdivision and I have sprayed the yard twice. Dog gets sentinal and frontline topical. J- |
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If I didn't have cats I'd be using permethrin on clothes and pyrethrin on the dog and the yard.
Both are excellent, the pyrethrin is biodegradable, the permethrin is very persistent on fabric, even through multiple washings. Both are very very toxic to cats and fish. So the cats and the stream on my property both say no for me, but they might work for you. |
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Did a survey along the Snake River a few years back. During the ride in the truck back to the hotel each day we'd pull 30+ ticks off of one my coworker's dogs. Most of them had not burrowed in and were crawling around. They were crawling all over the inside of that truck. Pick a decent spot to eat lunch and sit down, you could see ticks crawling everywhere. Nobody on the crew had any that were attached IIRC. |
| Love being in states with little to no tick population. It's amazing the ecological disaster that ticks have become. Between being vectors for various disease they also literally bleed to death non grooming animals like moose. Ticks are thought to be the culprit behind the drastic moose population decrease from ME to MN. |
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Love being in states with little to no tick population. It's amazing the ecological disaster that ticks have become. Between being vectors for various disease they also literally bleed to death non grooming animals like moose. Ticks are thought to be the culprit behind the drastic moose population decrease from ME to MN. You got that right...'shivers' We ain't got none of those nasty creepy crawlers here on the Wet Side...no ticks, no chiggers, no poisonous snakes. The yellowjackets do their best to make up for it though. 
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Here is the solution to your problem.They will exterminate all of them and other bugs. http://cdn.sheknows.com/articles/free-range-chickens.jpg do you take them hiking and hunting with you? |
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Not bad here in Michigan. I was walking my dog and found one digging in on her front leg. Yanked it off. I applied some frontline when we got home. You must not be in the UP. Last hunting trip there before a big freeze we pulled 70+ ticks off five people and four dogs. We probably found another 20 dead where the dogs had been sleeping. That was the first day. We didn't bother to count the next three days. |
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They've been bad down here since early March. We were pulling 5-10 off of us every time we ventured into the woods and Deet was simply not working.
That's when we discovered this: http://www.amazon.com/Sawyer-Products-Permethrin-Clothing-Repellent/dp/B007VCRX2S |
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Thank you for all of the info. We had been using Frontline Plus but stopped because it seemed ineffective.
I have been reading about all of our options and think that Advantix II is what we are going to use. I hate putting topicals on my dogs but it is really bad this year. Next year I think we are going to try the Bug Off Garlic from springtime. Does anyone use this product? |
| We have pulled more ticks off in these first few months of warm weather than in the past six years combined. Some areas they literally start walking up your leg the moment you enter. Never seen it so bad. Makes me wonder what causes a population explosion like that. |
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We have pulled more ticks off in these first few months of warm weather than in the past six years combined. Some areas they literally start walking up your leg the moment you enter. Never seen it so bad. Makes me wonder what causes a population explosion like that. Global warming. Or George Bush. Or something. |
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I eat a shitload of garlic, and I take the garlic pills
It's been working for me for 10 years now, To include the army's worst tick infested places Everyone I'm talking to say this is e worst year for ticks they can rememeber. My old man lives in michigan, and says their camp is literally overrun with ticks, they've never even seen any up there before this year |
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We have pulled more ticks off in these first few months of warm weather than in the past six years combined. Some areas they literally start walking up your leg the moment you enter. Never seen it so bad. Makes me wonder what causes a population explosion like that. Global warming. Or George Bush. Or something. Odd, in that the "brutal winter" was blamed for the poor economic results in the first quarter. Ticks got no time fo dat! 
None here so far, and we have a short hair dog. Naturally, after reading this we'll be overrun. 
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| I use this stuff for my Golden. I've only found two on her so far this year, and a couple months apart. |
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We have pulled more ticks off in these first few months of warm weather than in the past six years combined. Some areas they literally start walking up your leg the moment you enter. Never seen it so bad. Makes me wonder what causes a population explosion like that. Global warming. Or George Bush. Or something. I think it has to do more with the lack of forest fires. Areas that traditionally had forest or grass fires would wipe the tick population down every good burn. Very few fires are left to burn anymore. |
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My personal record is 175 that I've pulled off of myself in one day. I cold feel them crawling up my legs...I stopped at a traffic light and pulled my pant leg up and they were so thick that it looked like I had scales.  I go nuts if I even feel one of those bastards crawling on me.
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| I pulled 60 of the buggers of me and my son after paintballing in a field a few years ago. We were coated in repellant as I was diagnosed with Lymes a few years earlier. Deer ticks are teenie tiny and about 1/16 the size of a dog tick. I wont run my German Shorthairs in grass fields till fall (freeze) |
| I noticed as well. For those of us that have lyme what was your treatment like? I was diagnosed like 2 years ago and had doxy for a while then a PICC for a month but I still feel the same. Some lyme forums say to go see a LLMD closer to the north since most in the south don't know how to treat it. |