renmig
05-06-2003, 12:09 PM
I was looking through past posts and haven’t seen anything posted in awhile on Ticks. I live on a farm in New Jersey, for some reason this year the ticks seem to be really bad. I pull ticks off us and our dog nightly. It’s gotten to the point where she looks for them on us.
A funny story: I have a freckle on the back of my arm, when we were watching TV in bed the other night and she started to paw at my arm, after the pawing didn’t seem to work she started to bark and nip at my arm. It was then I realized what she had thought it was a tick. She will also sniff out the ticks on her and bark at them until someone removes it.
I was doing some research about Ticks and how to keep them off Baby bella and us. The most interesting bit of information came right from Frontline’s web site. "Frontline kills 100% of ticks within 48 hours." Then I continued to do more research, The chance of catching Lyme Disease increases if the infected tick stays attached to your skin for 36 to 48 hours. I'm confused isn't that saying the Frontline, while it will kill ticks isn't going to necessarily protect your pets from Lymes?
Some Facts about Ticks
Flushing ticks down the toilet WILL NOT KILL THEM.
During feeding a tick may extract up to 8 ml of blood, they can take 100X their body weight in blood
A female tick can produce up to 20,000 eggs.
Some ticks have been known to live for over 20 years and they can live for a very long time without food.
Using matches, cigarettes, pins, or gasoline to remove a tick will irritate the tick. They increase the likelihood that the tick will "spit up" in you, which increases the risk of disease.
Oil is not effective because the breathing requirements of the tick are so small it could last hours covered with oil.
For more info on Ticks check out the link below.
http://www.spokaneoutdoors.com/ticks.htm
http://www.blast.net/renmig/Tri-DaleFarm/images/pictures/bella_hat.jpg
http://www.blast.net/renmig/Tri-DaleFarm/images/pictures/bella_point.jpg
A funny story: I have a freckle on the back of my arm, when we were watching TV in bed the other night and she started to paw at my arm, after the pawing didn’t seem to work she started to bark and nip at my arm. It was then I realized what she had thought it was a tick. She will also sniff out the ticks on her and bark at them until someone removes it.
I was doing some research about Ticks and how to keep them off Baby bella and us. The most interesting bit of information came right from Frontline’s web site. "Frontline kills 100% of ticks within 48 hours." Then I continued to do more research, The chance of catching Lyme Disease increases if the infected tick stays attached to your skin for 36 to 48 hours. I'm confused isn't that saying the Frontline, while it will kill ticks isn't going to necessarily protect your pets from Lymes?
Some Facts about Ticks
Flushing ticks down the toilet WILL NOT KILL THEM.
During feeding a tick may extract up to 8 ml of blood, they can take 100X their body weight in blood
A female tick can produce up to 20,000 eggs.
Some ticks have been known to live for over 20 years and they can live for a very long time without food.
Using matches, cigarettes, pins, or gasoline to remove a tick will irritate the tick. They increase the likelihood that the tick will "spit up" in you, which increases the risk of disease.
Oil is not effective because the breathing requirements of the tick are so small it could last hours covered with oil.
For more info on Ticks check out the link below.
http://www.spokaneoutdoors.com/ticks.htm
http://www.blast.net/renmig/Tri-DaleFarm/images/pictures/bella_hat.jpg
http://www.blast.net/renmig/Tri-DaleFarm/images/pictures/bella_point.jpg