Guest Freckles LaLa Mom Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Freck had a tick on her. arlglladkjfldlsk gross!!!!! blegh!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShoresDog Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Eeek, poor baby! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Ick! I hate ticks. I was rubbing Zeb's tummy recently when I felt what I thought was a scab, so I absentmindedly picked it off and took a look at it. It was a tick! I was so grossed out. They're just the ugliest things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chesney's Girl Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 A tick is better than the 50+ I pulled off Chesney one afternoon while running him through the horse trails and creek. My skin was crawling for days! Lucky I found them all and pulled them off that afternoon/evening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OurBoys Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 I think in 3 years I've found 2 ticks on JJ. I panicked both times. They just freak me out! Ewwwww!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TheRuffMuttGang Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Ha, Danielle! 50+ is better than the nearly 200 I pulled of of Pepper when he flew in from Wisconsin and the probably 500+ I pulled off of the 5 Oklahoma dogs that all arrived at the same time. I was finding engorged ticks on the floors, in cracks & crevices, in crates after that ordeal. Lexi also came covered in these microscopic ticks (also from OK). The first night she was here I thought there were just a few so I stuck her in her crate and went to bed. In the morning there were 100+ teenie ticks in and around her crate. I promptly took her to the vet for a tick bath as these ticks were too tiny to pull off. So, I'm quite comfortable pulling ticks off now...but I still hate them. OK is one of the worst places EVER for ticks. I had my dogs on K9 Advantix when I lived there and still had to scan them daily for ticks. If we went hiking I had to do a "tick check" after each trip and I pulled several off of each dog after those trips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Freckles LaLa Mom Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 note to self....NEVER EVER go to OK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OurBoys Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 note to self....NEVER EVER go to OK Ditto! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bo Peep Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Only noticed one tick on my dogs and I wa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyoBC Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 I'm lucky. I haven't found any on Black Jack yet. WY is pretty good about ticks. We don't get to many, except up in the mountans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maralynn Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Ticks are nasty and gross, but honestly, I'd rather find them on the dog than on me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Freckles LaLa Mom Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Ticks are nasty and gross, but honestly, I'd rather find them on the dog than on me! excellant point lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luv2napp Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Yes, ticks are gross! Laredo, TX is also a place with a LOT of ticks. I had to check the dogs every night. But that wasn't the worst part....I had to check my husband also. With his work, he was always walking through the brush. One day, he had so many of them, I made him get undressed in the shower! And he ended up with Lyme disease one year. Poor guy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
setsail Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 I had to stop taking Jackson to one state park because he routinely came home with 100+ ticks from a day of hiking and playing. I pulled 25 or so off his head on the drive home (hadn't attached yet). *shudder*. I work outdoors, but luck for me I work on the water lol. I don't have to worry too much about ticks out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoffrey Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Ahh, ticks bring back fond (NOT!) memories. I remember when we found Zeke at ~5-6wks old and was more tick than dog. There were actually CLUMPS of them stuck to each other and to him. He bore the scars for several years (his hair came in the wrong color in the places where he had the most severe tick bites). It took weeks to fix him up.....not to mention the piles and piles of worms he "deposited" everywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kayleegator Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 Another Tick-lish place is Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where I lived for half a year once. The White Mountains there are real pretty, but I couldn't believe the ticks. I had 50-60 little ones crawling up my legs after a casual stroll through a weedy lot. And every fence or old tree you lean against is infested with chiggers, too, which bother dogs as much as humans. I felt so sorry for the miserable hounds I saw there. I can handle spiders, but ticks make me shudder, ick! I know there are some around here (far northern California), but they seem to be less of a problem at higher altitudes... Beki Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iluvlucy Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 north and central louisiana are full of ticks. southern doesn't have any because of the salt content or the marsh or whatever thank god. i think the small ones you are talking about are the ones my grandma called "seed' ticks. they stack up in piles on weeds etc. and when u brush against them u become covered. thjere is a bush called laurel that will take them off if you break off a limb and swipe your leg with it. well it gets most of them. chigger-----if u go fishing don't sit on a log!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerboy Posted September 4, 2007 Report Share Posted September 4, 2007 we have lots of ticks in the forest where i walk Badger, they are deer ticks. He always comes home with a couple, i have to wait till they are at a stage where i can pull them out, yuk!! he thought i was being nasty to him when i first started doing it and had a really hurt face on him so now i pull it out and have to show it too him just so he knows what i have done, well really i think it just makes me feel better as it makes him jump, but i often wonder what point in life has a tick got Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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