Picking up ticks...in the snow?!
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| Hate to say it, but they may be inside. You may need to treat your home. For topical flea & tick treatment, I prefer Advantage over Frontline. Although there are a lot of different opinions on this. So sorry you're going through this. |
rdf wrote: Hate to say it, but they may be inside. You may need to treat your home. For topical flea & tick treatment, I prefer Advantage over Frontline. Although there are a lot of different opinions on this. So sorry you're going through this. Tick infestation in the house? Yuck. I hope not. Seems like if that was the case we'd also be finding them on ourselves and the cat. I remember having a discussion with my vet about which preventative to use, and he did seem a bit down on Frontline. He ended up recommending it for our situation, though, because we live in the country where there is a lot of wildlife (deer, rabbits, groundhogs) around. Is it that Advantage is more for fleas than ticks and Frontline is more for ticks than fleas? I can't remember. But I'm going to have to talk to him again about this because we need something stronger. LOL! We always get a ton of ticks in the summer (on us humans and the dog), but I have never seen it in the winter, especially as it's been cold and snowy here of late. I'm going to call the groomer tomorrow and see what we can do. My plan was to grow the coat all winter and shave down in May when the hot weather hits. But I may have to shave sooner, or at least try to get a puppy cut that will allow me a better view of what's going on tick-wise. |
| Yes, ticks are present during winter months especially in Feb and March. Make sure you are using a product like Frontline year round. Instead of shaving your sheepie down, place them in a shorter puppy cut so you can brush and comb easier. A good link is http://www.tickencounter.org/ |
Guest wrote: Yes, ticks are present during winter months especially in Feb and March. Make sure you are using a product like Frontline year round. Instead of shaving your sheepie down, place them in a shorter puppy cut so you can brush and comb easier. A good link is http://www.tickencounter.org/ Thanks for the info and the link. We are very used to ticks and tick removal, and the dog is on Frontline year round. In the summer we have a huge tick problem here--more than I've ever experienced any place I've ever lived. I grew up in Wisconsin, and I never heard of a person or dog being covered in ticks unless they were out camping in the woods or something! I had horses and spent all my time outside in fields and riding on trails and not once in ten years did I get a tick on me. But at our house in Virginia, we deal with multiple ticks every single day in the summer. Hate it. I took the dog in for her first haircut in November, but the groomer refused to do a puppy cut. She said it would be "too traumatic" for a young dog. ??? So I'm going to try a different groomer this time and see what she says. |
| We are using Comfortis. It might not be appropriate for puppies, however. Frontline and Advantage was not 100% for us with fleas, and Tonks is allergic to flea bites We've yet to have a tick on either dog, though I have found them on the bed, so I assume it came off of one of the dogs due to the Comfortis. |
| Ticks can indeed be indoors. They would be near baseboards, or even behind baseboards. Quote: When individuals of each feeding stage become fully engorged, they drop from the host and seek some protected situation in the immediate surroundings. For this reason, all tick life stages may be found behind baseboards, under window and door moldings, in window pulley openings or in furniture. Couple this behavior with the climbing behavior of newly hatched larvae or other stages which have not obtained a blood meal recently, and one can understand why nearly all cracks and crevices in an infested premise must be carefully treated in order to obtain good tick control. Homeowner calls usually occur in the late summer and fall when ticks are encountered crawling on carpeting, walls and sometimes furniture. http://www.pestproducts.com/ticks1.htm#Tick%20Life%20Cycle%20and%20HabitsBrown dog ticks can be found outdoors in the southern United States during any time of the year, but are found outdoors during the warm months in the northern United States. It is generally believed that this species of tick cannot overwinter in the more northern United States except within a heated structure. So if you continue to find ticks, then assume you will also need to treat your home. |
SheepieBoss wrote: Brown dog ticks can be found outdoors in the southern United States during any time of the year We're in the south, so that means ticks are living outdoors (and indoors, potentially) all year round. So for now I'm going to pretend she's picking them up outside. If I find any in the house or on humans or the cat, I'll consider this idea of indoor infestation. YUCK. |
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