Tick Season
It is apparently going to be a really bad tick season this year.
I have found 3 ticks on Piglet, 1 on me, and 1 on Himiko. And it is only April.
Make sure your pups are treated with some sort of preventative and have their Lyme vaccine.
It is apparently going to be a really bad tick season this year.
I have found 3 ticks on Piglet, 1 on me, and 1 on Himiko. And it is only April.
Make sure your pups are treated with some sort of preventative and have their Lyme vaccine.
Comments
your tick counts scare me!
vetting, so we're waiting on getting him a frontline treatment for this
month.. we want to go hiking! but i'm scared of ticks.
We have to use preventative year round being in GA. NO RISKS here!
There aint no bugs on me, there aint no bugs on me, there may be bugs on some of you mugs but there aint no bugs on me!
Hey, get that Frontline or Advantix going.
When we found Josephine a year ago she had 30-40 ticks on her (was lost in the wilderness for a week or so, we guess). Sure enough, when we got her back home to the vet for full diagnostics and parasite treatment, etc. she tested positive for Lymes... This was from ticks in the SW. (Good news is a full course of antibiotics puts it to rest for a doggie.) We live in the upper Midwest, so the Frontline season has beginning and an end. My husband found one tick on Josephine after a trip to our farm in central MN. 2 weeks even though snow was still on the ground in some places and major snow fell thereafter. Those ticks come in April in MN regardless of the weather, it seems!!
sujewel - you live up east, right?
I use frontline from April to October because when the ground is frozen its impossible for fleas to survive outside and if we have no fleas inside, how can they get them?? But since it gets so cold and snowy up east, my treatment seems to be effective. No fleas yet!
found another one on piglet today.
as i mentioned earlier the only time ticks are not out is when the ground is frozen solid. Being that winters have been mild lately i don't risk it.
also make sure to get lymes vaccinations for pups. While it is treatable for dogs' watching your dog cry in pain and not be able to use their back legs is heartbreaking.
(which she never will) we will go back to advantix.
Never heard of Sentinel.
Yes, I live in NY. As Jess pointed out, it's been a really mild winter. I'm not too certain that the ground even froze here. Since we're in the city and we don't let the dogs out into the backyard, just the courtyard which is concrete. Since it was such an early flea season and such a mild winter, I might use Frontline, like Jessica, year round.
Sentinel is a combo ptoduct that a lot of my friends (non-shiba owners) use. It is a heartworm preventer as well as a flea/tick preventative.
Hmmmm. Have you ever had a headache and a shoulder or knee or whatever other pain at the same time? This just happened yesterday. I used to be big into weightlifting. I was young and I worked myself too hard and I ended up with Knee and Shoulder issues. I worked with 3lb weights on my back yesterday, doing various back exercises. The 'fly' motion gave me an ache in my left shoulder.
Of course, I had a super busy day and I didn't eat enough for lunch, so by the time dinner rolled around, I got a super bad headache. With the headache and the shoulder pain, I took some Motrin after dinner. The Motrin did kick in, but I still had the shoulder pain. Know what I mean? I just feel like those products that are supposed to do everything can't possibly be 100% as effective as heartworm specific or flea/tick specific products.
If fleas and ticks were both worms, like the heartworm, than I could buy into it. Now, I'm not a biologist, I'm a different kind of scientist. But that's how I look at it.
We had a pretty cold winter here, I have not spoted any on Nemo yet. All the other bugs are out though, I figure they must be around here somewhere though. As the grass gets taller at the park they start to appear more and more.