Ticks. Where are they coming from?

[steve69]

My Cocker spaniel does like to bring friends home with him but I really hate ticks. I found two on him this morning. Luckily I come prepared with tick tweezers.

We are staying at the wonderful Doubletrees Farm in Par, Cornwall which has several fields to walk the dog round.

They haven’t had livestock on the farm for many years apparently but still the little blighters appear each time we come here.

Buzz does have a penchant for sticking his nose down rabbit holes so is that the likely source?

How did you know the ticks were on your dog in the first place, what gave them away?

 

[Janine]

How did you know the ticks were on your dog in the first place, what gave them away?

Buzz is very touchy feely so I can find them quite easily by running my hands over him.

 

[tribalbrit]

Couple of summers ago the record removed from our cocker was 54 not all attached some just loose in her fur. We live in Sherwood forest so expect a few.
She now has a Seresto collar fitted which repels them in the first instant, very few come near now.

 

[Janine]

Couple of summers ago the record removed from our cocker was 54 not all attached some just loose in her fur. We live in Sherwood forest so expect a few.
She now has a Seresto collar fitted which repels them in the first instant, very few come near now.

What is it with Cockers?? No-one else on the site has had any problems

 

[Speve]

We find Nextgard excellent and when we find ticks they are usually dead with no blood in them.
Whilst in Spain earlier this year we were regularly finding three or for on him per day

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[JimmE]

We live in Devon, and adopted a springer spaniel last summer. With the type of walks he enjoys are regularly removing ticks from him. One earlier today!

He has Bravecto (flea and tick treatment in chewable tablet form) from the vets every 3 months, and the majority of the ticks we find are still tiny, and already dead, so it seems to work!

 

[Simon Meadwell]

Warmer wet winters and global warming according to BBC countryfile a couple of weeks ago. For the rise in ticks.

 

[Pausim]

Warmer wet winters and global warming according to BBC countryfile a couple of weeks ago. For the rise in ticks.

Tick Tock, Tick Tock “The Times They Are A-Changin”

 

[Grianan]

I no longer have dogs but am still curious about how one best disposed of them after you have extracted them?
We know you shouldn't leave any part of them in one's body because, after a number of days while nothing appears to be wrong, suddenly one has problems?

We have a jam jar with meths in - ticks go in there.

 

[Spriddler]

A friend's two collies get loads. For years she has drowned the ticks in a yogurt pot with some water and a couple of drops of washing up liquid.

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[L' Hobo]

We have a jam jar with meths in - ticks go in there.

I have to admit, that in the van, to keep the number of things in my medical cupboard to a minimum, I always carry a bottle of Surgical Spirits as my initial go-to treatment for most things external.

IF I ever had ticks, I would dispose of them in a sealed bottle of a small measure of S/S combined with a drop of washing up liquid to break the surface tension and make sure they sank quickly.

There would be no explosion with the combination?

 

[PaddyM]

Same question re carrot root fly , have grown own veg for 20 yrs but never carrots until last year , planted them and they were decimated by carrot root fly , where had the buggers being living for the last 20 yrs and what had they been eating? No one within three miles of me grows carrots !

 

[L' Hobo]

Same question re carrot root fly , have grown own veg for 20 yrs but never carrots until last year , planted them and they were decimated by carrot root fly , where had the buggers being living for the last 20 yrs and what had they been eating? No one within three miles of me grows carrots !

Climate change!
Carrot Fly FLY, and the damper weather has brought about changes including Potato Blight.

Try some companion planting such as Marigold, it's thought to mask the Carrot smell?

 

[Northernraider]

I've been getting 4 or 5 a day everyday now in Greece for the last fortnight ...must be the season for them , but the tick treatment the dogs have had must be working because none have attached themselves ....strangely they've not attached to me either I just keep finding them crawling on the dogs ,me and the sofas etc. Hard to kill the wee shites too . I've taken to burning them now

 

[Manic]

Sorry I wasn't suggesting you didn't, I thought it was generaly worth mentioning about the tool and the problems of lymes disease and thought your post was a good one to tag it onto.

No worries, I was just saying we have proper tool and good for you to mention the tools and lymes disease

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