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Post by vickyb on Jul 25, 2015 4:12:32 GMT -5
I've just found and removed a brown tick from the top of Maddies leg, using a tick remover. It was tiny, I thought it was a little scab so bent over to have a closer look and saw legs waving at me  . So I'd guess it was new? but if so I'm wondering where she got it. We're in Norfolk in the middle of fields but the garden has short grass, no plants and it's quite small. She'd just got up and been out for a wee. We were walking in woodland it was 2 days ago so if she got it there wouldn't it be bigger? They were all done with advocate a week ago but I don't think that kills them. I'm worried now that she picked it up in the garden. They are vile  |
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Post by Nettie on Jul 25, 2015 4:24:13 GMT -5
She could have picked it up anywhere really. They are horrible, when we are in France we do a daily groom and tick patrol on each dog. I think the most effective method of repelling them and fleas is a Seresto collar - they cost about £28 and last for between 8 & 9 months.
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Post by vickyb on Jul 25, 2015 4:43:17 GMT -5
You should have seen my reaction when the legs waved at me  I've seen them on other peoples dogs but ours have never had them thankfully. |
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Post by gazer on Jul 25, 2015 13:54:24 GMT -5
I picked one off Cara a few weeks ago, they are horrid, especially when you see them waving at you  |
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Post by brooke1 on Jul 25, 2015 15:00:46 GMT -5
You should have seen my reaction when the legs waved at me I've seen them on other peoples dogs but ours have never had them thankfully. Did you wave back  |
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Post by vickyb on Jul 25, 2015 16:16:42 GMT -5
You should have seen my reaction when the legs waved at me I've seen them on other peoples dogs but ours have never had them thankfully. Did you wave back  No lol I screamed at Tony to get the dog first aid kit out of the car to get the tick remover and repeated it and repeated it..... |
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Post by lurcherlot on Jul 26, 2015 4:18:50 GMT -5
I remember years ago Maisie the Minx (no longer with us) came back from a walk with over 50 ticks of various sizes on her - it took me hours to remove them all!! We had walked through a field of sheep ... I think sheep are the main culprits for tick-sharing!
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Post by Ted on Jul 26, 2015 6:23:05 GMT -5
There is a spray that is very effective in killing the tick so it falls off. If you do remove a tick please remember to stamp on it with your shoes so that it does not attack anything else. Some ticks especially those in Scotland can carry Lime disease and you have to have treatment from a GP just in case. Menta has a rather solid lump just in front of her right ear and our vets think it was a tick bite that has festered, it feels like a solid piece of rock and does hurt her if you press it. Our vets did send a sample off but it came back as nothing serious. Menta was placed on Anti-Biotics and the lump did decrease in size at first but has stayed the same size for the last three/four weeks, if pressed no pus comes out of it. Just in case I have a can of wound antiseptic.
Although sheep can be one of the main culprits ticks can be in bushes just waiting for a passing animal or even an uncovered human passing by. When we were in Scotland about 12 years ago on holiday my wife found a tick on her arm and had to go to the local medical reception to have it removed and she was warned to keep an eye out for any problems in the area where the tick had been and to see a GP straight away.
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Post by vickyb on Jul 26, 2015 12:42:33 GMT -5
I had a dish with washing up liquid in it ready to put the tick into and that did the trick! that was one of the first things I did so it couldn't run off, I gather that they can run pretty fast. That sounds horrible Ted. Oooh Liz how awful  |
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Post by lurcherlot on Jul 26, 2015 14:44:16 GMT -5
I dropped the ones I caught in a jar of extremely strong dettol mixture - they didn't like it much!
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Post by Nettie on Jul 26, 2015 15:17:03 GMT -5
I have a bowl of water to hand, and when tick patrol is over they get wrapped in kitchen paper and chucked in the fire or just set the paper alight in the fireplace if it's summer, the one sure way to make sure they are dead.
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Post by Andy & Justine on Jul 26, 2015 16:17:28 GMT -5
I had to pull a tick off Ben last year after the council couldn't be bothered to cut the grass verges. Luckily I groom our dogs regularly and went to tickle Ben under his chin when I felt something that wasn't there a few hours earlier. It was fairly flat and flesh coloured so hadn't been there long. I thought it was a tick then saw it 'nuzzling' into Ben's neck so got the remover and on the second go it came away cleanly. I can still remember that 'pop' as I pulled it off - just like a human lip smack. I cut Ben's fur short around the site, bathed it in salt water and kept applying savlon to the area for about a week to keep it clean. All was fine. I hope I never, ever have to take one off my dogs again though - it really was vile and all down to the council being lax. Nothing in the four years before (and so far) nothing since.... J
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