The Good Shepherd Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 Triple Yuck This morning at 6:00 am and before my second cup of coffee I found a Tick on Spyder What the heck - it was 26 Fahrenheit out this morning!!!!!!!! Where are theese little devils coming from???????????? Tonight EVERYONE in getting a dose of Natures Guardian Last year I did not have to until the end of April, beginning of May!!!!!!! Anyone else seeing the critters already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
love1dawson Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 Not on the dogs, but DH just caught a coyote that was COVERED in them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MicheleS. Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 I found a tick on Chase a couple of days ago. It's been warm here, last week mid to high 60's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alligande Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 Here in Rhode Island I found my first ticks about 3 weeks ago. This year we are trying advantix as frontline was a disaster last year for ticks and fleas, and revolution which killed the fleas does not work for ticks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aphillippi Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 I hate ticks! I hope you can keep them away! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SecretBC Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 I Frontlined at the beginning of last week, after finding a tick on MYSELF. Ugh. I hate them. And while I won't complain about our beautiful warmer-than-usual March weather, I will complain that it brought the ticks out several weeks earlier than usual. They are hearty buggers -- even the Wisconsin winters can't kill them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Good Shepherd Posted March 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 It would be interesting to see what everyone is using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alchemist Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 We're using Frontline at the moment for fleas and ticks. Last year we used Vectra 3D but Duncan absolutely hated it. Acted totally weird for a full day each time we administered it. I've spotted ticks on him with Vectra 3D but not with Frontline. But I'm not certain that this really counts as a "controlled experiment", as he was on Vectra through the worst of tick season. We live in Tick Central, USA, so I feel the risk associated with any chemicals is less than the risk associated with tick-borne disease. Duncan has also been immunized for Lyme disease; the vet said that he sees a very large number of cases of it each year. My neighbor hates to use chemicals so is just giving her dog garlic tablets. I've expressed my concerns, but to each his (or her) own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MicheleS. Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 The blue merle aussie gets sprayed with an herbal flea spray and wears an herbal collar. A few years back I stopped using Frontline on her because she developed these odd watery cysts after applying it. She has allergies and seems to have odd reactions to any kind of chemical. I may have found one tick on her last year. Right now both Chase and her are wearing the herbal flea collars. Last year they were both on Revolution and I had no flea problems. Chase did have a few ticks. They have a vet appointment in a couple of weeks, with a new vet so I'm interested to see what they recommend. I want to try to stay away from any kind of spot-on treatment if I can but not opposed to using Frontline on Chase if I have to. I have never used it on Chase but used it on other dogs (besides the aussie) with seemingly no adverse effects. I won't use it on the aussie though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urge to herd Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 I've found 2 ticks on Shonie. We've had a very wet winter, and our temps are fluctuating day to day from a high of 76 one day to a high of 63 the next, with corresponding lows. I hate ticks. Haven't dosed them yet, but will do so soon. Ruth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbc1963 Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Pulled a dog tick off Buddy on February 15. Frontline seems to be useless here now - so I use K9 Advantix. Mostly, it keeps ticks off for 6 weeks, so I don't dose as often as they say. Late April/early May seem to be the very worst time here, and then again in early fall. I also hate ticks. Hate hate hate hate hate hate hate. My vet said that something like 50% of the dogs here test positive for Lyme. Mary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommy Coyote Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 The blue merle aussie gets sprayed with an herbal flea spray and wears an herbal collar. A few years back I stopped using Frontline on her because she developed these odd watery cysts after applying it. She has allergies and seems to have odd reactions to any kind of chemical. I may have found one tick on her last year.Right now both Chase and her are wearing the herbal flea collars. Last year they were both on Revolution and I had no flea problems. Chase did have a few ticks. They have a vet appointment in a couple of weeks, with a new vet so I'm interested to see what they recommend. I want to try to stay away from any kind of spot-on treatment if I can but not opposed to using Frontline on Chase if I have to. I have never used it on Chase but used it on other dogs (besides the aussie) with seemingly no adverse effects. I won't use it on the aussie though. I just put both my dogs on Revolution. I think it is only good against dog ticks. Nothing else. I don't have a tick problem here so its not an issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eeyore51876 Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 We pulled one off of our Kaycee last night and put the Frontline on her right away! I was soo upset! YUCKY TICKS GO AWAY! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Elle Posted March 26, 2010 Report Share Posted March 26, 2010 Ticks have become a fact of life here. We have them year around, although they are worse in the summer during monsoon. I have tried *everything* to get rid of them and nothing works. At one time I was doing all of the following at once: spraying the yard weekly refusing to allow any weeds or grass to grow in the yard at all advantix monthly on both dogs weekly washing and treatment of their bedding weekly tick shampoo baths daily plucking of ticks from dogs garlic in their food .....................................and I was still pulling ticks off the dogs every day. I stopped doing all of those things and the number of ticks that I was pulling off the dogs daily neither increased nor decreased. Conclucion: everything I was doing made no difference. So now I just pull ticks off the dogs when I find them, which is every day. This has been the same in all 3 places I have lived here, although I went to very elaborate precautions to attempt to avoid transporting any ticks with us when we moved. I sure wish there were something that would work to keep them off but I have not found it. I know other people who just use Frontline or Advantix and never have a tick, so I do not know why my dogs have them. I have followed every piece of advice I have ever gotten, even the ones that sounded ridiculous, and I am still open to anyone's suggestion if I haven't already tried it. I can't even hate them any more. When you simply have to deal with something so regularly, you cannot afford to spend the energy to hate them. You just have to deal with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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