My dog has been constantly plagued with ticks recently. Even after baths, thorough hair checks, short hair cuts, flea collars, pet spray, and that liquid flea-collar substitute, I still find them on her (and I mean huge bastards that appear overnight). Once in a while I’ll see one crawling up a wall in my house, which frustrate me even more since I’ve fumigated my house. If anyone knows anything about these pesks or has any other anti-tick tips, please let me know. :help: :help: :help:
If you’re finding ticks around your house, alive and not on your dog, then you probably have an infestation – the dog picked up a pregnant female that fed and dropped off the dog in order to find a place to lay. You must fumigate, fumigate, fumigate! After that, you have to wash everything down meticulously. Then spread tick poison around your place – everywhere your dog can go. You need to get it right down into all the cracks and crevices. But this won’t end the problem, as the dog will still pick up ticks when outside. It’s a constant summer battle, or at least it was with mine, may she rest in peace. There’s a spray you can get from the vet (could be called Foremost or something like that) with which you spray the dog against the nap of his hair and rub the stuff in. It works well and is safe for the dog, but needs to be done regularly.
Oh, Christ. :help:
I will get to fumigating again. How the heck do they get to be so big so quickly? One minute she’ll be fine, then I’ll find a couple huge ones on her.
Where I lived in the States (OR) the ticks feast on humans as well, but I have yet to find one on me. Do these ticks just not like foreigners? 
There is also a kind of chalk that contains insecticide. You can draw lines with it in strategic spots, e.g. around bed, chair and table legs. It attacks the nervous system of insects that crawl over it. I found it very effective against bed bugs. You can get it from those cheap hardware stores, of from chemists/drugstores. Orange/brown pack, if I remember right. I suggest wearing gloves when you hold it.
My dog used to get them everytime we went for a walk. Any plant matter over 1-2cm can be a good place for a tick here. I started using Frontline tick repelent. An oil you spread down the dogs spine. It kills them and works quite well. Put a dab on the tick itself and it’s dead in an hour then falls off.
Mosty importantly starw away from grass and shrubs. Sidewalks and roads only. Beaches are good too. I’ve only had one tick in the last year.
Good luck
Ticks need food. They can’t live with out a source. Queen or no queen. I doubt you have an infestation unless they are feeding off you your dog and you.
Ski
[quote=“ski”]Mosty importantly starw away from grass and shrubs. Sidewalks and roads only. Beaches are good too. I’ve only had one tick in the last year.
Good luck
Ticks need food. They can’t live with out a source. Queen or no queen. I doubt you have an infestation unless they are feeding off you your dog and you.
Ski[/quote]
Sandman: Frontline, that’s the name. However Ski, if you do a search on the tick life cycle, you’ll see that there is indeed a possibility of infestation. I know – it happened to me and I too felt like you when the vet explained things to me. It wasn’t until I did a little research that I realized he was right.
BTW, my vet has several – several – clients who have contracted Lyme disease off dog ticks here. Stamp those fuckers out!
Thanks for the good advice. I just got back from Sri Lanka to find our sheepdog had been utterly infested with two masses of ticks, bleeding and painful. His frontline had run out. Does anyone know a good way to remove them en masse?
Vorkosigan