Princess16
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Beware of a fatal disease called Babesiosis caused by ticks which has just arrived in Uk. First cases been found in Harlow in Essex.
Dog owners in Essex
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Thistle
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Not just Essex, Harlow is Herts borders
Clodagh
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I have never routinely used anything for ticks and fleas. We are only a few miles from Harlow so I do wonder if I ought to start. Is it advocate that is best?
fiestiemaestie
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advocate doesn't do ticks. To do ticks you can either use advantix - a spot on that is applied monthly, though is fatal to cats if so you need to be a cat free household. Other wise bravecto is a tablet that is given quarterly that does fleas and ticks. They could also have a seresto collar which lasts 7 months roughly that repels fleas and ticks.
Pinkvboots
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I also use advocate and thought it covered ticks I will look into the other treatments mentioned thanks for the information.
Clodagh
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Thank you fiestiemaestie, I will try one of those.
JasonW
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I read it will soon spread across the whole of the UK which is obviously a worry 
Keep vigilant!
Keep vigilant!Thistle
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Was at the vets today (I live 15/20 miles from Harlow) they have completely run out of tick treatments!
Clodagh
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I said that to my Mum today, Thistle, that it was bound to happen.
Alec Swan
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Dectomax, whilst unlicensed for dogs, is used by many, despite the fact that the manufacturers cover their rear ends by issuing cautions. I know a professional greyhound trainer who blanket injects all his dogs with 1.5mm annually, and has never had a problem in the last 10 years.
Dectomax works on all parasites, both internal and external, and that's it!
Alec.
Dectomax works on all parasites, both internal and external, and that's it!
Alec.
blackcob
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I must have taken a dozen calls about it today despite being a long way from Essex. Call me cynical but The Big Tick Project behind this research is sponsored by MSD/Merck who happened to launch a big new tick product last year... it would be very much in their interests to whip up some hysteria!
Princess16
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Ask the deceased dogs' owners how cynical they are !
twiggy2
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scaremongering at its best
MotherOfChickens
MotherDucker
unfortunately, its this sort of use of a drug that leads to drug resistance. Quite apart from the risk to herding breeds should someone take your recommendation.
Clodagh
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My OH agrees with you Twiggy, he points out that our dogs have never had a tick and the chances of them getting one now and it carrying the disease are remote. So I am undecided! We prefer not to blanket chemical the dogs.
MotherOfChickens
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do you not have deer ticks down there then? terrible up here for them and actually, my old BC used to pick them up on the South Downs.
Clodagh
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The foxes and badgers have ticks I presume as when we had terriers who used to go to ground they picked them up sometimes but since we upgraded to labradors we have only seen one and that was after a trip to Norfolk.
Alec Swan
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That will probably be because we up here have a far higher and more dense population of deer. Deer are the main tick reservoir.
Alec.
twiggy2
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my uderstanding is that only certain types of tick carry the disease and they are generally found in other areas, also that all the dogs had been walked along the same stretch of meadow.
Best advice I have heard is check your dogs for ticks at the end of each day-well who would have thought that might be a good idea?
the ticks take 24-48hrs to pass the disease to their host.
Best advice I have heard is check your dogs for ticks at the end of each day-well who would have thought that might be a good idea?
the ticks take 24-48hrs to pass the disease to their host.
Alec Swan
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Drug resistance is almost exclusively limited to the over usage of antibiotics and the sustained use of the 'white' wormers in sheep, and both are actually uncommon.
Alec.
twiggy2
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Essex is kown for having a really high deer population, lots of deer farms and escapees
ester
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I'm sorry what? Drug resistance is not restricted to antibiotics or white wormers or that uncommon.
MotherOfChickens
MotherDucker
it's not and its not uncommon either. and if there's resistance to a certain drug in another part of the world (as there is to dectomax), its only a matter of time before we get it here-unless we are careful.
Clodagh
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We do have a lot of deer but still fingers crossed no ticks.
Slightlyconfused
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Same with us.
We are in south beds, have a bit if a muntjac population and some deer.
Will speak to vet when we next see them
We are in south beds, have a bit if a muntjac population and some deer.
Will speak to vet when we next see them
hobo
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Just thought you may be interested in Red Water in cattle . It is the same parisite as the dog one and is spread by the ticks from deer. It becomes a problem when the ticks get in to a new area where it has not been before. Once it has been around for a while and young cattle that have had exposure to it they develop their own immunity to it. On our own farm it arrived 10 years ago and we had a few cows with it, we saved them with blood transfusions, the correct special parisite treatment and antibiotics as backup. We did joke with vet as she was a new vet and the first 3 times she came it was RW I thought it was the only thing she had learnt at vet school! After about 3 years touch wood it has not been a problem though we still have a few normal tick fevers that only need antibiotics to get cow better.
Hopefully as people and vets become more aware of the dog one it will settle down and not cause undue problems. As prompt treatment works well.
Hopefully as people and vets become more aware of the dog one it will settle down and not cause undue problems. As prompt treatment works well.
Clodagh
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That is interesting, Hobo, thank you for that.
freckles22uk
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Any more news on this spreading? I cant seem to find anything on google and someone has asked me.. I use the scalibor collars for ticks as my dogs run a lot in the undergrowth