is there a tick issue where you live?

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  • nakedsun
    nakedsun Posts: 115
    I live up in Ontario and surprisingly and have encountered one tick ever despite having grown up on a farm on 100 acres of wooded land. My dogs, horses, buffalo, cats, bunnies, humans have never had a tick. My ex's dog got one in the city once but that's all I've seen.

    How odd. The idea of them freaks me out though.
  • Doing_The_Unstruck
    Doing_The_Unstruck Posts: 241 Member
    I live in SE Wisconsin. One place I used to run trails at is really bad with ticks this year.I found a new place to run and luckly haven't found a tick on me yet.
  • rebewck
    rebewck Posts: 14
    Ticks, gnats, mosquitoes are amazingly bad this year. I live in Kentucky. News people say it's because we didn't have a cold winter (I think it was only 30 degrees 2 days) and thus the bugs weren't killed off like usual.
  • verptwerp
    verptwerp Posts: 3,659 Member
    I work at an animal hospital in lower NY ...... people are always asking us how to remove ticks off their pets ..... (a bit of liquid soap on a cottonball should make the little buggers back out, then I'd crush it ..... sorry, PETA-people)
    :flowerforyou:
  • SPNLuver83
    SPNLuver83 Posts: 2,050 Member
    nope, no tick issues here. though i suppose if we lived in a more wooded area there may be.
  • SueGremlin
    SueGremlin Posts: 1,066 Member
    I work at an animal hospital in lower NY ...... people are always asking us how to remove ticks off their pets ..... (a bit of liquid soap on a cottonball should make the little buggers back out, then I'd crush it ..... sorry, PETA-people)
    :flowerforyou:
    Okay, I have to speak up about this.

    NEVER EVER put anything on a tick that is attached. Once ticks are firmly attached, they actually secrete cement (that is what it is called--cement) to anchor themselves. They cannot back out even if they want to.
    When you apply an irritating substance or a match head or grease or whatever to a tick, it greatly increases the chance of that tick regurgitating and transmitting the disease they may be carrying.

    Please do not ever do this. The ONLY safe way to remove a tick is to grasp it with tweezers, your fingers, or a tick removal tool as close to the skin as possible and pull straight out.

    And don't forget to save the tick for testing.
  • uallonsy
    uallonsy Posts: 6
    Don't forget about Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
  • 1Kristine1
    1Kristine1 Posts: 697 Member
    Never encountered a tick that I know of. Not really mentioned much where I live in Canada, maybe it should be. But we have a crap load of mosquitoes...stupid things.

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