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06-10-2015, 06:51 AM | #1 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Southeastern, PA
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| When You Find A Tick On Your Dog.. Living in a very bad tick-bourn area of the country (northeast) I have been lucky since I acquired JB 2 years ago. When he came to us, his coat was very long (typical biewer) and I found a tick crawling up his coat. I have had no problems until yesterday. I decided to have him done in a modified schnauzer cut this time around where the legs are larger than the body with a topknot. I also use Vectra3D on him, but, in the past I always had him cut very short (7 or 10 blade with short face). I let him out yesterday morning and found a larger tick on him. The tick must have been pretty famished cause it did not wander at all, for I found the tick embedded on the top of his little paw. I noticed it maybe a half hour after he was outside. I removed it quickly but I should have gotten a better look at it and kept it for the vet to identify it but down the kitchen sink it went. When I removed the tick, there was no blood so I got it early. His paw was pinkish at the area where the tick attached and it looked like a little paper cut. I cleaned the area with peroxide and this morning, it looks fine with a scab forming. Some people are telling me that I should go to the vet. I have no idea why, for when I go onto the CDC website, it says that it takes up to 24 hours for a tick to transmit disease and evenso, it could take 7-14 days until you see redness or, at least in humans, a red ring around the area which suggests lymes disease. I have also been told that it is hard to detect lymes by a blood test unless antibodies are present to show they are fighting off the disease. This could take months, if in fact, disease was transmitted. I did honestly panic because jb has been through so much (being a puppy mill dog). He came to me disease-free and I tend to keep him that way. I have no children so he is our world. I attached a pic of his paw and if you click on it, it might become larger. Any/all advice is appreciated!
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06-10-2015, 08:58 AM | #2 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker | I'm not sure what the vet can do but I would at least call the vet for an opinion on whether or not you should bring him in. There may be a preventative treatment for disease if it's suspected. |
06-11-2015, 12:48 AM | #3 | |
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I did contact the vet and they told me there is nothing we can do. Just wait and see. Treat his red paw with triple antibiotic and watch for symptoms. A 4DX test should be done around September to see if any disease shows up, for it could take months to over a year, even without symptoms. I am just surprised that with it being tick season, that I have received only one reply. Does that mean no one here has ever experienced a tick on their dog? Any of you have experience with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever or lymes in your dogs? Did treatment work & what kind of treatment did your baby go through?
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06-11-2015, 10:08 AM | #4 |
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| Me Too!!!!! Need help with Ticks! I just came on here to search for threads about ticks. I just moved to a lake community near Fredericksburg,VA. And I have been picking off ticks quite a bit. I have Deuce on Revolution for heart worm, fleas and ticks since when he was little we had some digestive problems with other medications. The tick I got off him today looks like a dog tick - according to the chart online. I've been getting 2 or 3 ticks a week and he only goes in our yard!!!! I'm wondering what other folks do to prevent ticks on their dogs and in their yards. I understand that yard maintenance is a must but does anyone on here use outside pest control or a pest control company. How successful has that been? I'll leave this post on this thread for a while but if there aren't any responses I'll try it under General discussion.
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06-12-2015, 06:43 PM | #5 |
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| I've probably pulled at least 30 ticks off Jackson throughout the past 6 1/2 years.... no need to go to the vet. It's normal for the area to be a bump and scab up for a little while afterwards. He did test positive for lymes once when he was younger, came up limping/stiff-legged, and the test came back positive. I make sure to give him the flea/tick meds in the warm months and test every year, it's been negative ever since with no issues.
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06-12-2015, 08:28 PM | #6 |
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| no tick problems here but I have not been through a summer with him. Some one said to use diatinatious earth for fleas instead of the poisons you put inside your puppy. |
06-13-2015, 05:39 AM | #7 | |
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Ok, so what you are saying is that lyme "can" go away and never show up on a 4DX test ever again? I was curious cause my vet told me that once they test positive, they always will. But, this does not mean that they are sick or showing symptoms, just that they have been exposed to it and the virus never leaves. This is the first time I have heard of a dog having lyme disease that tested positive and then it never showed up again. Maybe I need to talk to my vet again?
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06-13-2015, 07:03 AM | #8 |
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| In past 4 weeks I have removed 3 ticks off Cody, I live in a heavily wooded area. He is just in my yard, I am using FrontLine. The last two weeks I have seen no ticks on him. They look like dog ticks from the on line charts. I check him several times darning the day andwhen yard play is finished for the day, so a tick is never in him for long, I also keep him in a puppy cut so ticks are easily felt, seen and easy to remove. Out of my now passed 4 yorkies, Cody is the only one that has had ticks. I try to keep my yard free of dead leaves as I have read ticks hide out in them. When I took off the ones he had this season I had quite a bit of leaves, since I cleaned them up he has been tick free, keeping fingers crossed, I HATE those nasty blood sucking things.I never had a dog come down with lymes, Rocky Mountain spotted fever is not in my area (The Poconos).
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06-13-2015, 09:56 AM | #9 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Southeastern, PA
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| PLEASE do not believe that statement! My friend has a summer home up in Long Pond (just west of you). They have springer spaniels and one contracted Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever either down here (where I am located) or up there. This disease effects Springers & German Shepherds pretty hard. They spent over 3K on their dog to have a pacemaker put in due to heart issues because of the disease. There was also an article posted in the Pocono Record last year of a boy who actually died of RMSF. No one has actually died due to RMSF in the state of PA in 25 years. According to the local vets, it is still rare, but, in the past 5 years they have seen more exposure and illness due to RMSF than they have seen in 2 decades. It is around so be careful!
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06-13-2015, 05:19 PM | #10 | |
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07-08-2016, 10:04 PM | #11 |
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| Tick are really irritating. Last month my cat who got so many ticks in his body that was a panic situation for me, As it was spreading everywhere at my place. So I decided to appoint exterminator nyc where professional pest control helped to removed this services. |
07-09-2016, 04:26 AM | #12 |
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| I know this is an old thread, but, it is tick season, here in NE Pa. front line still works best for me, although I have read in other states it is almost useless. Make sure what ever you use you are consistent on the time it is to be reapplied.
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