Lots of ticks?

[futurebeachbum]

We're down for a few weeks and we are seeing ticks like we've never seen down here before. Admittedly, we forgot the frontline and it arrives later today but we are finding 3 or 4 at a time.

Is this just because we forgot the Frontline or are they worse than usual this year?

 

[Carol G]

They have been really bad this year so far, in my experience. I also use Frontline, but today I found 2 latched on Daisy and one just crawling around, and one latched on my cat too.

Two years ago I had the same problem; last year I did not find a single tick on either of them all winter... I wonder if there is some sort of 2 year cycle?

 

[heartbren]

ticks

We're down for a few weeks and we are seeing ticks like we've never seen down here before. Admittedly, we forgot the frontline and it arrives later today but we are finding 3 or 4 at a time.

Is this just because we forgot the Frontline or are they worse than usual this year?

I have not had a problem with ticks and I live next to a bib grown over lot. Get that frontiline on them. Sorry for you situation. I hate ticks.

 

[NotDeadYet]

I am finding one or two here and there on the cats. The ticks turn up every fall - so far this seems to be about an average year. I can remember a few years back when they were much, much worse.
I do think the weather has something to do with it. In my experience Frontline helps but it's also good to just remove them from the fur before they can attach. A flea comb works pretty well.

 

[futurebeachbum]

We've Frontlined them now. These are tiny little critters with a strong predilection for Schnauzer ears.

 

[Red Dawg]

Tick removal is very simple, liquid soap applied directly to the ticks back, and they will drop off within 10-15 minutes, nothing left in animal skin to make a sore. Keep a check on animals this time of year, ticks are everywhere. Walking down the road, got slapped by a tree branch, got home and felt something moving in my hair, had a tick that hadn't attached.

 

[Mango]

It has more to do with the migration of birds. They carry lots of ticks on them, that's why you see more in the Fall/ Winter. If the weather conditions remain favorable, they will stay more active before over wintering.
I won't tell y'all to be careful re: Lyme disease and it's multiple coinfections, or how less than 50% of people will get a bulls eye rash to alert them to Lyme, for fear fo sounding like a broken record; or worse yet, be told Lyme doesn't exist in FL, GA or in the South. (I guess the the multiple phone calls I get a day of people trying to find a doctor even remotely literate about the disease down South means nothing, either):roll: