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04-11-2012, 12:21 PM | #1 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| ***Watch Out For Bad Tick Season Due To Warm Winter!*** Coming tick season likely to be bad according to this article. Busy Tick Season Expected Thanks to Mild Winter and Early Spring - ABC News
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
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04-11-2012, 01:30 PM | #3 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| I was sad to see that. Ticks give me the willies and to think there will be even more of them on the loose than before is not pleasant. It was so warm here in the D/FW area this winter I never even had to put the warm wraps on my outside faucets. Temp never went below the mid-20's I don't think and never was in the 20's but a very few nights. We had no hard freezes at all.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
04-11-2012, 01:35 PM | #4 |
Katie Scarlett's Mommy Donating Member | This will be our first tick season. I have Katie Scarlett current on all vaccines and up to date on frontline and Heartguard. What else do I need to keep a watch for? I know I need to keep a good feel check on her and I've read about removing ticks if one is found. Ticks give me the willies too!
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04-11-2012, 01:43 PM | #5 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| I just check Tibbe over once a day usually in the evening, looking through where the hair is thickest particularly and inside the ears, around the anus and even between the toes and pads. Thankfully we don't have bugs and fleas and such in this neighborhood and I've never found a tick or flea on Tibbe and he doesn't scratch except on occasion. But after reading the article, I realize this spring/summer may be very different.
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
04-11-2012, 02:06 PM | #6 | |
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04-11-2012, 04:24 PM | #7 |
I ♥ my girls! Donating Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: With My Yorkies
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| I am already fighting the heck out of the little creepers! It is April and I have already had to treat my yard and my girls have been on Vectra for 2 months now. I don't ever remember having to do this so early. I HATE these things!
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04-11-2012, 06:14 PM | #8 |
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| I never had an issue with ticks until I started taking care of the cats in this area. I have some that come in and go out into the woods and the tall grass and pick up ticks. Every year for the last 3 years the ticks have gotten worse and that is with a normal winter. If it is true that the ticks are going to be worse than last year then I would think it would be the same concerning fleas. I'm not looking forward to this. |
04-11-2012, 06:25 PM | #9 |
♥Trained by my pups♥ Donating YT 500 Club Member | They are terrible here. The dogs I keep on frontline and doing well. But I have never seen them so badly on my horses. I may pick one or two off once and a while. But the other day they all had lots. Got them picked of and started treatment. Glad to say today I saw none on any of them. We have had horses since I was young and I asked my parents if they ever remember them being bad. And they said no. They are so yucky.
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04-12-2012, 12:18 AM | #10 | |
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04-12-2012, 10:32 PM | #11 | |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: Mesquite, TX
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Years ago, we played outside all day in the sun and heat and didn't worry about level reds and oranges either. Now you can barely walk from your car to front door without passing out!
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