PSA for dog and outdoor cat parents

[a la izquierda]

The ticks are horrendous this year. We are pulling multiple ticks off our dogs daily...and we found one in our bed.

[Earth_First]

1. Yes...

I had to make a visit last week to have a heavily embedded tick removed from our 5 year old Golden who LOVES the wooded outdoors.

The vet says it's especially worse this season already.

Good PSA!

[a la izquierda]

2. I've never seen it this bad.

We used to use an herbal topical that I made at home for my two little guys (one has terrible reactions to the chemical stuff like Biospot and Frontline). But as much as I hate to do it, we're going to use Advantix this year. The dogs are also getting Lyme vaccines. We live out in the country and the ticks are everywhere!!

[Earth_First]

6. We generally do not start with the Advantix until May 1

We don't usually spend any amount of time in the woods until then, however the vet has suggested year-round treatment given the mild winters we've been having...

There was a thread last week a out this..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018373904

[hlthe2b]

3. You have ticks on your outdoor car?

It would help if you indicated what part of the country you are talking about. This may well be a bad tick season for many regions, but given some of us had 16 inches of snow a mere few days ago, not all is equal.

[a la izquierda]

4. Ticks don't die because of snow.

http://www.veterinarypracticenews.com/vet-cover-stories/tick-populations-to-explode.aspx
But I am in Ohio.


And I need to turn off autocorrect.

[hlthe2b]

5. They are hardly active in 16 inches of snow... I take it you didn't get any?

Climate change is surely going to add to your flea and tick problem, though (along with mosquitoes)

[a la izquierda]

7. No, not the other day.

We had a lot this winter though. Depending on where you are -CO I assume- the ticks might be really bad once y'all finally get your spring, despite all the crazy snow. We had a mild winter last year and not many ticks. Awful, long winter this year...and tons of ticks.

I would be suicidal with the winter you guys have had. I like snow...but to a degree.

[hlthe2b]

8. I'll take CO snow over the heavy rain of elsewhere any day... One day 16 inches, the next 70 degrees

sunny and we're sitting outside watching the distaant snow piles melt over an excellent microbrew.