Ticks

[LindaJD]

We took the dogs for a walk yesterday and when we got home I found a tick on both dogs. Last night watching tv I found one on my neck so had my husband look me over for more and we found another on my back. Now I have the heebie jeebies.
My oldest dog is 10 and not very healthy so we ended up carrying her half of the walk and I think that's how I got the ticks.
Next time I will load up on the bug spray. I hate ticks.

 

[SarahHound]

Yuck, I hate ticks. I always feel itchy for ages after I find one on myself.

 

[sparks19]

ewwwwwwww I too hate ticks. I think this year is going to be bad for the creepy crawlies

*shudder*

 

[LindaJD]

My husband must be creeped out too, he just came out of the shower to show me the tick he found. It was a piece of lint ha ha. I told him to hurry up and burn that sucker.

 

[momto8]

We did our first run at the lake since spring hit and we came home with ticks too. I can't stand ticks lol! Normally i brush all the dogs out before we load back up in the car if I suspect them and check over us and the kids really well.

 

[Fran101]

I hate them!! I get so paranoid when I find one ANYWHERE

Like..clean the whole house.. shower 4 times.. shampoo my hair 12 times.. kind of stupid paranoid lol

 

[LindaJD]

I hear you, I am washing my sheets, blankets and bedspread today. I hate them so much. I put tick stuff on my lawn every year and I don't think it does anything.

 

[MinPinOwner]

I hate ticks. I feel like they are crawling all over me after seeing one. lol

 

[Snark]

Yeah, they're already bad this year. I've been pulling them off the horses all winter. Frontline seems to work pretty well on the dogs, I wish they had something like that for people...

 

[Fran101]

I've had really good luck with Neem Spray.. keeps off the bugs/mosquitoes/fleas/ticks and I always just do a quick spray before walk and such (on the dogs and me!) lol

http://leerburg.com/57.htm

It works really well and is organic/natural so doesn't smell awful lol

 

[AussieAshley]

I found my first tick of the year yesterday, ewww. I think this is the earliest I have seen them out.

 

[Kat09Tails]

I think the only thing I hate more than ticks is deerflies... evil little bastards. Happily I haven't seen a tick here in years.

Here's a nice little article about dealing with the evil little bastards in the world.
http://www.lymeneteurope.org/info/deet-versus-permethrin-as-a-tick-repellent

 

[LindaJD]

Thanks for that article!

 

[Aleron]

We had a horrible tick experience last weekend. Took the dogs hiking and ended up pulling 80+ ticks off of four dogs over the course of many days. To make matters worse, the ticks appeared to be deer ticks and Ziggy now has swollen lymph nodes. In researching this issue, I learned there's a lot of misconceptions about deer ticks. They are a tick which is active year round, even in the winter. They feed at all life stages, with the nymph stage being the most commonly seen on humans (the very tiny deer ticks you always hear about). The adults are larger and would be more typically what you'd see on animals such as deer...or dogs. According to our health department there is a big surge in their popularity, even just over the past year.

 

[smkie]

I about died of laughing when I read on the DAily Coyote "found a tick on my arm, I may have to cut it off" or soemthing like that, meaning her arm, not just the tick. I have been battling chronic lyme for 5 years. You couldn't pay me to step in the woods right now. Once winter's over, that's it for us until frost.

Hope your all ok, if anyone comes down with flu like symptoms, get checked. Insist on the Western Blot test.

 

[Aleron]

I about died of laughing when I read on the DAily Coyote "found a tick on my arm, I may have to cut it off" or soemthing like that, meaning her arm, not just the tick. I have been battling chronic lyme for 5 years. You couldn't pay me to step in the woods right now. Once winter's over, that's it for us until frost.

Hope your all ok, if anyone comes down with flu like symptoms, get checked. Insist on the Western Blot test.

Good to know! Dogs are already started on antibiotics - with the number of ticks they had, it's unrealistic to think they weren't exposed. Luckily, the ticks seemed to stay off us.

Unfortunately, deer ticks are active year round and feed on hosts at all life stages

 

[MinPinOwner]

I about died of laughing when I read on the DAily Coyote "found a tick on my arm, I may have to cut it off" or soemthing like that, meaning her arm, not just the tick. I have been battling chronic lyme for 5 years. You couldn't pay me to step in the woods right now. Once winter's over, that's it for us until frost.

Hope your all ok, if anyone comes down with flu like symptoms, get checked. Insist on the Western Blot test.

I go hiking all the time in the summer. The best tips I would give is leaving the least skin exposed while hiking and checking yourself all over for ticks while taking a shower after getting home. People think I'm paranoid doing so but I don't care. lol I read that about half of deer ticks carry lyme disease.

 

[smkie]

Not everyone gets the rash either, so you can't just go by that.

 

[Romy]

Oh my gosh, one time I went out to feed my aunt's goats, went back in to take a bath and there was a HUGE tick on my STOMACH. I almost died. It hadn't buried its nasty head under my skin yet so I fwinged it off and smashed it about fifty times with a shampoo bottle. I swear the evil thing was the size of a nickel.

Ticks = The Debil. I hate ticks.