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Does anyone have problems with Ticks?

Since we've moved Star and Alf have been getting loads - they are so horrible!!!

We've treated them with frontline now - will that be the back of them?

Also - Dan read that human's can get them in the groin area (!!!!!!) is this true???
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We had loads of grief last year with ticks....dogs were always coming in with them...yuk...not had any probs so far this year though..and we ahve always used frontline anyway but last year it didn't seem to make any difference.
 
Ticks - bleurgh
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They make my skin crawl!

Henry is Frontlined but he still gets them, it only protects against them for a limited time. I am going to the vets tonight anyway, am going to try and remember to ask if you can use tick collars on a frontlined dog. Will let you know!

I have got a tick remover now, following my first tick experience not long ago. Cost about £4 from the vets.

Humans can get them, and I seem to remember being told that they do like to find nice warm spots - so the groin seems like a likely spot
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You can get tick removers to use on people too, not sure how they differ from the dog ones. I have nenver got one but if I do I will just use henry's tick removing thing!
 
Can you imagine finding one of those bad boys in your pubes!!!
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How do they get them? They've never had any before we moved house..
 
Ticks live in the grass and drop from animal and go to a different animal. Our dogs get them sometimes (we have a lot of deer and sheep round our way) and sometimes the horses get them too. I just use tick tweezers to get them out, got ours from the local pet shop.
I've never had them on me but I know the little lads across the road sometimes get them from running out through the meadows in the summer.
 
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human's can get them in the groin area (!!!!!!) is this true???

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Quite possibly, but I've also had one on my shoulder blade.
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Bl**dy painful, and left me suffering with other problems for months afterwards........
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We have a tick tweezer for Tugg as he's picking the blighters up on almost every walk at the moment. (Metal tweezers though - much more reliable than the plastic ones.) OK, we have to check him after every walk, and last thing at night, but it's worth the hassle. Got the tweezers from a local chemist - bit expensive, but again, worth every cent.
 
What problems did you get afterwards?
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They don't seem to have an tick removers at "Pets at Home" which is a bit poo... maybe i'll ask the vet.
 
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Can you imagine finding one of those bad boys in your pubes!!!
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How do they get them? They've never had any before we moved house..

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I've had that happen more than once, I get a few here and there on my body every year it seems, but luckily most of them thinks my legs is "juicy" enough. I have several tick removing things, including one in my purse all year around, so I wont forget putting it in when the spring begins.

For the dogs Frontline, Exspot, Scalibor collars and such things works, but not 100 %. They can still get ticks, but they don't get as many and those that does bite usually dies after sucking a while.

The most embarrassing one that I've had, was one summer only a few years ago, when I had a very small one on a very inconvenient place and I simply couldn't get a grip around it with any of my tick removers. So after crouching over a small mirror for a while fiddling around, I had to call my mother and bend over.


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Sweden
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! All my life, when I was going to register I thought of several things to call myself, but then thought that since I feel I've found my dog breed in the Finnish Lapphund, calling myself that would be easy for me to remember.


And I did think it was very embarrassing when it happened, not that she saw something she had never seen before, but still when you're over 25 years it is just not the same as when you were a little baby...
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The most embarrassing one that I've had, was one summer only a few years ago, when I had a very small one on a very inconvenient place and I simply couldn't get a grip around it with any of my tick removers. So after crouching over a small mirror for a while fiddling around, I had to call my mother and bend over.


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I am quietly dying on your behalf (I'm not even going to ask what you were doing to get one there...
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My vet said Scalibor is the tick collar he uses and that you can use them with Frontline as well - will have to see how it works!
 
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What problems did you get afterwards?


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Despite a course of powerful antibiotics, I was left feeling tired and run down. Not long afterwards, I discovered an abcess in rather a delicate place.
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This had to be lanced, and the wound re-packed and re-dressed daily for about 10 days afterwards.
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, as well another course of antibiotics.
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GP put it down to the tick-bite, and being generally out of sorts after a fairly major operation earlier that year.
 
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The most embarrassing one that I've had, was one summer only a few years ago, when I had a very small one on a very inconvenient place and I simply couldn't get a grip around it with any of my tick removers. So after crouching over a small mirror for a while fiddling around, I had to call my mother and bend over.


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I am quietly dying on your behalf (I'm not even going to ask what you were doing to get one there...
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My vet said Scalibor is the tick collar he uses and that you can use them with Frontline as well - will have to see how it works!

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You didn't ask but I'll answer it anyway, I sat in the grass and it must have crawled all the way up on the inside of my jeans looking for the best place to feed
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but greed never pays...

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My JRT gets loads, probably cos we have a lot of sheep and deer in this region, I find nothing proprietory works to stop them, its all just a waste of money.
Most effective is just to develop a knack of twisting them anti -clockwise - (why I don't know but I am left handed so find it easy) 'til you get a crack sound and inspecting them to ensure that the mouth parts aren't left behind in the dogs skin ( if they are you need to do minor surgery with a sterilized pin and dog muzzle on!). You can also dab on alcohol like rubbing alcohol or gin to dope or kill the tick first so it slackens it jaws!

I find that the the ticks do not cause my dog any ill-health ( he is probably immune), but they can get lymes disease from ticks as can humans, and which is a very nasty flu -like illness that lasts months and can kill.
 
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