is there a tick issue where you live?

nakedsun

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

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

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

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)
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SPNLuver83

nope, no tick issues here. though i suppose if we lived in a more wooded area there may be.

SueGremlin

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)
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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

Don't forget about Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

1Kristine1

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.