TICK!!!!???(skin crawl emoticon)
I went to my trusty computer and searched for TICKS and there is was in all its glory...a picture of MY ticks identical twin brother...(or sister)... YEP....WE HAVE TICK!!!!!!!! Question to the forum....are ticks like mice (which we did have a very long time ago when we were first married in a house by a highway). Can there be juST OnE or should I assume there is a family living somewhere in our house!!!!!??????? IMPORTANT NOTE:...I have brushed both Pearl and Heart many many times since Sheepiepalooza...I (thought) I had checked them out..obviously this tick was wayyyyy smarter than me....To make matters worse...I don't know which dog he was 'renting' from...if ya know what I mean/?????? |
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| They live outside in tall grass and trees. There shouldn't be anymore in your home unless there was more than one on the dog, but it will die if it doesn't have something to feed on. If it was large and gray it is not the type the transmit Lymes.
I wouldn't worry to much about there being any more but I would check them both good just to be sure. The deer ticks are very tiny and are hard to see. If you don't have them on any sort of tick preventative you may want to give them a tick bath just to be sure. They are so gross!!!! |
| Oh, GROSS!!!!!!!!
I found two on my guys last week. They're bad this year. Almost wants to make me grab a ten blade and shave everybody down. The good news is they prefer to lurk on greenery outside waiting for their next victim. http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm ... icleid=603 The bad news is that I have no idea how they get from your kitchen floor out to the great outdoors where they belong!!! I've never heard of a house being infested with ticks the way fleas can take over. I hope that's not possible or I will need to move to the arctic circle or something. 
(I can't even write about this stuff without itching all over!!!  )
I came home the other day to get Sybil and Liz for a mid-day class and noticed some dried blood on the hallway floor. No pawprints through it, not a single dog had any evidence of having "donated" this blood. Nor the cat. It bothered me, but...? The next day I started wondering. I live in a rural area, next to a farm market to boot, yet my cat is a good mouser, so it tends not to be an issue. I won't use poisons because of all the critters. (The ones I actually invited to live with me that is). With one exception (a dead mouse that fell down onto the stove - oh, double-triple gross! when I opened the cubbard above it looking for a flashlight - one fears he sampled my cooking and succumbed for that reason. ) I have yet to see a mouse or anything of that nature.
I wonder if something tried to make its way in. Not much misses Fearless Frankie's attention -- maybe he had brunch. At first I though: gee, I sure hope he didn't share with Sybil. Then I thought: oh, no! What if he decided to share with ME??? 
I remade the bed that night before I went to sleep, just in case. I still haven't figured that one out, but based on the amount of blood I know it wasn't some tick trying to find the exit. Kristine |
Quote: Then I thought: oh, no! What if he decided to share with ME???
EWWWWWWW!!! (good one, Kristine) I can tell you that Heart just came home from the groomer..trimmed her to about 2.5 inches.....NO Ticks were found....!!!! YEA!!!!!! BTW....she looks mahvelous!!!!!!!! Hopefully, Judi will remember to bring her digital to the play date tomorrow and get pics of Harry and Heart, both in their summer cuts!!!!!  |
| Have you seen the tick identification page on this site? How to identify different ticks
What you have described sounds like a dog tick after its last meal. They get all blown up after they've had a really long and good blood meal from your dog. Then they fall off and give birth... Just put the blown up tick in a vial filled with alcohol to prevent spread of disease. I use an old medication vial (you know, the amber ones?) filled about 2/3 or more with alcohol. I have quite a collection. At some point maybe I should take (and post) some pictures!!! |
| I just found a tick on Chewie's ribcage last night (pre-show brushing).
We normally don't have them hardly at all at our house. Must be a woodtick year. Growing up we had tons - it was night-time ritual looking for ticks and brushing our teeth as kids! |
| Thanks for all your posts..I am learning soo much about ticks..whoo-hoo...Seriously, Heart is on Frontline for ticks, fleas and heartworm. Pearl, is not, but will be by Wednesday. I have an appointment at the vet to get the tests and the meds.
Dawn...we used to watch TV, brush our teeth and go to bed...... |
OOOOH I feel Itchy after reading this YUCK YUCK Gross. 
Glad you don't have what we have here the "paralysis tick', now that scares the crap out of you and FOR your dogs, life threatening if you don't know the symptons on a dog when one of these buggars hitch hike on the dog.  |
lisaoes wrote: OOOOH I feel Itchy after reading this YUCK YUCK Gross.
Glad you don't have what we have here the "paralysis tick', now that scares the crap out of you and FOR your dogs, life threatening if you don't know the symptons on a dog when one of these buggars hitch hike on the dog. Any experience with these??? Symptoms? Are they prominent in the USA?. Very creepy!!!!!! |
| You know you've got a problem when you look across the room on the wall and there's a tick! They naturally climb up onto something in hopes of latching on to a passerby.......but a wall? It was where at least one dog sleeps. You can bet I had the vacuum out and sprayed around the area. After a few hours I washed the area well to remove the pesticide and kept on vacuuming daily in case there was any egg hatch........only then did the dog get his sleeping area back. |
| I just found a tick on Bentley. Yuck! I've absolutely no experience with ticks.
What does it mean when you see a tick on your dog and the first thing you think of is Ron's stomach???? |
| Ewww gross!
I hope I never see one. |
floofdog wrote: What does it mean when you see a tick on your dog and the first thing you think of is Ron's stomach???? It means you love me!  |
| LOL
Actually that's the first thing I think of when I see the word tick |
| yuck yuck yuck!!!
ive had to pull 3 off of panda this winter.....when and if you remove them, find a pill bottle or a container with a sealable lid, fill it with alcohol and drop them in there....they will die for sure.... i learned from my vet that if you squish them, they might live and breed...so dumping them in alcohol is death for sure...then dump the whole bottle in the trash..... |
Willowsprite wrote: LOL
Actually that's the first thing I think of when I see the word tick Me too... I think we are scarred for life! |
Quote: i learned from my vet that if you squish them, they might live and breed...so dumping them in alcohol is death for sure...then dump the whole bottle in the trash.....
There's another reason, the tick's ........ah......guts and dog blood......can get into your system thru minute cuts. OK, not nice, but especially not nice if you have the deer ticks. Also don't flush them, they don't always flush away. They can survive the whirlpool........ |
| what about the ticks that borrow deep inside the victim? we've had a few of this kind- and they leave scares! are they bad ticks?????? |
Ron wrote: At some point maybe I should take (and post) some pictures!!! Uh, no you really shouldn't. A collection that important shouldn't be shared. |
Quote: What about the ticks that borrow deep inside the victim? we've had a few of this kind- and they leave scares! are they bad ticks??????
There are different species of ticks, the brown dog tick being just one. Most of the real yuckky diseases, Lyme for example, are not carried by the brown dog tick. There is one exception I can think of......and that's one of the Erlichiosis diseases (which have some fancy new name). Dog get his from the brown dog tick........and people can get a close variant also from the same tick.......but dogs cannot transmit directly to us...for those who worry about "kisses." So to answer your question, what about those that borrow deep into the human......I'm not sure that's dog tick.....I'd worry about those borrowers as they seem to be the smaller ticks which are the carriers of Lyme, Rocky Mtn Spotted Tick Fever, etc....remember different species of ticks. You are right about scars. My sister in law has a doozey on her shin from a tick that needed to be cut out. It was not a dog tick, but rather a deer tick and she was on antibiotics for quite some time to prevent disease...and from the cutting. |
| I got surprised this morning.
I was taking the bed sheets off for usual washing and something black/brownish fell to the floor. I wasn't sure what it was so I picked it up in my hand (YUK) and brought it out to the kitchen for my husband to look at. For sure was a tick with it's little ugly legs still moving!!!! Totally creeped me out to think that thing was in my bed with me, oh and Cooper lays up there too, probably how it got there in the first place. I was stripping everything off that bed and running the sweeper everywhere at 7 am (before having a first cup of coffee). I usually toss them into the toilet and didn't know about the alcohol way to kill them, good heads up for next time, but I hope there is no next time if you know what I mean. I'm glad Cooper has him Frontline treatment. |
| Last month, I was removing Chaucey's eye booger's and my hand bumped something by the inner corner of his eye, off fell this huge engorged tick. I have never been one to do ticks. Needless to say, Bob was at work, so I grabbed half a roll of paper towels and burried it at sea with one swift flush......YUCK
No way was I wasting alcohol on the tick, I was the one that needed a drink  |
Chauncey wrote: Last month, I was removing Chaucey's eye booger's and my hand bumped something by the inner corner of his eye, off fell this huge engorged tick. I have never been one to do ticks. Needless to say, Bob was at work, so I grabbed half a roll of paper towels and burried it at sea with one swift flush......YUCK
No way was I wasting alcohol on the tick, I was the one that needed a drink |
(  I'm too embarrassed to post this under my name, so sorry)Just a little quick note about checking your human children for ticks. Please remember to check around your sons scrotum. My five year old woke up one morning after hiking the previous day, said "mommy my pee pee hurts," When I looked there was a tick embedded on the side of his penis. I felt horrible for not thinking of checking that area. It was embedded and I had to take him to the dr's to have it removed.  poor little guy was so embarrassed but the dr made him feel so comfortable. He asked the nurse to step out of the room so there was just him and I in the room. Made him laugh, told a lot of jokes etc. Thank God he was so wonderful with him. The nurse later told me that the ticks are really bad and that earlier that morning they had to remove one from a little 2 yo nostril. |
| Wow. Was that a long time ago or recent (or will that give us too much info? )?
Was it a particularly bad year for ticks? Are you in the northeast? |
| OMG, guest, I never even want to visit where you live....
Wow. |
sheepieshake wrote: I can tell you that Heart just came home from the groomer..trimmed her to about 2.5 inches.....NO Ticks were found....!!!! YEA!!!!!!
BTW....she looks mahvelous!!!!!!!! Hopefully, Judi will remember to bring her digital to the play date tomorrow and get pics of Harry and Heart, both in their summer cuts!!!!! I can't wait to see the photos!!! |
SheepieBoss wrote: There are different species of ticks, the brown dog tick being just one. I know this isn't a subject to joke about, but after reading this, I thought "but none of us has a brown dog, so we don't need to worry about about Brown Dogs Ticks, do we? " I've found 2 ticks in the house since getting the girls 6 months ago. I've never found any before that, and we have 3 cats that are indoor/outdoor. Do they not like cats, or is it possible that the cats are grooming them off...? Last night I noticed a dark spot on Tonks' coat, and sure enough it was a tick. But it was dead already. I'm using Frontline Plus on my girls, and the box says it kills fleas and ticks. Are others not using this or a similar product? Is there a reason that I shouldn't be using it that I don't know of? |
| In my opinion the Frontline products are very good. That is what I have used ever since they first came on the market. I apply it every other month where we live, generally mid-April thru Dec. |
Darth Snuggle wrote: sheepieshake wrote: I can tell you that Heart just came home from the groomer..trimmed her to about 2.5 inches.....NO Ticks were found....!!!! YEA!!!!!! BTW....she looks mahvelous!!!!!!!! Hopefully, Judi will remember to bring her digital to the play date tomorrow and get pics of Harry and Heart, both in their summer cuts!!!!! I can't wait to see the photos!!! Just waiting for them to be approved!!!!!! |
Ron wrote: Wow. Was that a long time ago or recent (or will that give us too much info?
)?Was it a particularly bad year for ticks? Are you in the northeast? It was last fall in the northeast, the ticks were extremely bad!!!!  |
| I use Frontline Plus on the dogs and only once in awhile do I find a tick. They are often dead on the dog, but sometimes they are actively feeding and have reached raisin size. Nothing is perfect, but I have no reason to stop using Frontline Plus. |
SheepieBoss wrote: I use Frontline Plus on the dogs and only once in awhile do I find a tick. They are often dead on the dog, but sometimes they are actively feeding and have reached raisin size. Nothing is perfect, but I have no reason to stop using Frontline Plus.
Frontline Plus works the best for getting rid of Ticks. If your dog/cat has a lot of ticks you can buy the Frontline in a spray at your vet's. I have also seen it on-line. Any whoooo the way Frontline works to get rid of ticks is the dog/cat needs to have a coat that is not just freshly bathed at least two days old....if you use the spray you work from the back to the front moving the hair in the opposite direction of the way it grows. The Frontline goes on the not so clean hair and the tick picks it up and carries it to it's nest...and it kills the whole group of them. It works great. Good luck. |
lisaoes wrote: OOOOH I feel Itchy after reading this YUCK YUCK Gross.
Glad you don't have what we have here the "paralysis tick', now that scares the crap out of you and FOR your dogs, life threatening if you don't know the symptons on a dog when one of these buggars hitch hike on the dog. Yuk those sound scary! What do you do if one of your dogs has one of these visiting? |
Well, this is an intersting thread. YUCKY, but interesting. 
I've got a foster girl right now that I'm in the process of shaving down. She's pelted all over and infested with ticks. I stopped counting at 25 and I was only on her head. It's the nastiest thing. I've spent the last two afternoons shaving her a little at a time (as much as she can stand). I can't wait to finish and get her a good bath and start healing all those bite wounds. As soon as I finish cleaning up the grooming station, I run inside to shower. I can't stand the creepy/crawling feeling. |
Beaureguard's Mom wrote: Well, this is an intersting thread. YUCKY, but interesting.
I've got a foster girl right now that I'm in the process of shaving down. She's pelted all over and infested with ticks. I stopped counting at 25 and I was only on her head. It's the nastiest thing. I've spent the last two afternoons shaving her a little at a time (as much as she can stand). I can't wait to finish and get her a good bath and start healing all those bite wounds. As soon as I finish cleaning up the grooming station, I run inside to shower. I can't stand the creepy/crawling feeling. God bless those who can handle these miserable little creatures. |
| Ticks are GROSS and yes you need to check your kids every where (I worked in am ER I could but will not tell stories ) I had lyme disease twice The first time I did the doxycycline for a month and was just fine. The second time It went into the third stage . It caused a career ending disease and a very altered life. You may not even see the deer tick they are so small, My GSD had lyme disease (yes she was on frontline) she has lyme arthritis now. I told my vet Bailey is acting like I felt when I had lyme. We drew a titre and sure enough she had it . So the little boogers are not only gross they are a health hazzard!! I still have rescue dogs I pluck them from but am very careful...... |
| I'm an old ER nurse, I would make really bad deals ( for me ) ie: I'll do the next 2 drunks, I'll work your Sat....etc, ewwwwwwwwwwwwoooo, yuck. |
| hey! i'm in canada.... is the "frontline plus" that everyone speaks of, the same as "advantex" ?? i have some friends who use Advantex on their shepards and jack russel all the time and say it works wonders. Beckett is off to be neutered on thursday and i thought i would get him some of that (advantex) as we've already been camping twice and it lasts for a month. I'm thinking these are the same type of thing just thought i'd check! |
| Poor Beau, he has had a pony tail the last 2 days. When I took it out there was a almost full tick. Its my fault I should have taken the ponytail out every night and brushed. I pulled it out, cleaned the area with peroxide and put neosporin on it. This morning he has a huge scab and its all red around the area. I know I got the head but it still looks so horrible. |
| Thank you - I never thought about checking under Chewie's topknot!
Now I will be obsessively sticking a finger in there to make sure there is no tick! |
| Be obsessive! Our sweetheart Bogart was diagnosed with
Lyme disease last Monday. We apply Frontline year round. Our Vet feels that the Frontline appears to be lasting only around 3 wks for effectiveness. We have taken every precaution to protect him, but we are in a very high risk area and the vets are seeing increasing cases of Lyme here. The little critters are tricky, and numerous and some just too small. We are progressing slowly on the journey to recovery. |
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