European blood sucking ticks found in UK

Uh oh.....guess what I'm going to be working with for my dissertation over summer...!!
I guess I'm going to have to be very thorough in checking myself after a days work!
K x
 
Ihad to take six off one of my cats the other day . He had three duck egg blue ones and three white ones that were HUGE .What type would they be? I couldn't believe how fast the little feckers could move when I took them off Cassius . To make sure they died I put them in a cup of water added some bleach and then a good splash of Jack Daniels !!:D My son left two bottles when he moved out and I hate it so trying to use it up . Drains next I think !
 
I got a brilliant little spray from the pet shop, just spray it on the little beggar and after about an hour it goes black and dead and drops off. No risk of leaving the jaws in to cause infection that way. Flipping dog hates sprays though so takes two of us to hold him down while the third one sprays lol
 
To be honest I really haven't seen very many of them - I think in the past maybe 3 years I've only seen one and that was on Kelly - she dragged me over to a bush and stuck her head in to eat and came out with a little pink one on her nose which just brushed off and luckily hadn't had time to attach.
K x
 
trakehnersrock! said:
I got a brilliant little spray from the pet shop, just spray it on the little beggar and after about an hour it goes black and dead and drops off. No risk of leaving the jaws in to cause infection that way. Flipping dog hates sprays though so takes two of us to hold him down while the third one sprays lol
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ooooooo? what's it called?
 
And as if by magic, I found a tick on B's eyebrow yesterday, obviously from his so-called tracking :p at the weekend.....not sure how to proceed without putting his eye out, he's a squiggly fecker....and I nearly flambe'd his sister last time I tried to remove a tick...
 
You have to be so careful with the foreign types, it's not just Lyme's Disease they carry. We used to take my previous dog Max to France with us, he was getting on a bit (13) and had a benign tumour on his leg that that had abscessed a little but he didn't seem to be in any pain and seemed well enough to travel out with us, we took him cos he LOVED coming away with us. Anyway my dad took him out there, we followed a few days later and the last time Max left the house was to slowly come up the stairs to greet us, then he stayed inside and collapsed a few days later, and died when we rushed him to the vets. We were in shock because he had been fine, several vets had seen his leg and said not to worry. We tried to speak to the vets where he had died (dad's french is not quite that good!) and they said that it was a tick-borne disease. I did some research and I believe it was Babesia, which we don't get here (yet!) but it can affect british dogs horribly because they're not used to seeing it, and Max was too old, and probably a little poorly from his leg, to overcome it. I worry because it says that it is Dermacentor sp. that has come over, and I know they can carry the protozoa that causes Babesia, whether this has come over with them or not I don't know but I would keep an extra careful eye out for ticks if you live in these areas.
 
Babesia is rife here and everyone has to be on the look out for early signs. If you catch it early enough it is generally treatable, but can be extremely serious either way. A combination of Advantix (which in only available on prescription in the UK) and Scalibor colars (which are toxic to cats and should not be touched by babies/young children) are the best defence from ticks.

So sorry to hear about your dog gemstone.
 
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