Ticks like cool areas with foliage. They rarely like manicured lawns in the sun but will be found in those areas if surrounded by vegitated areas. I suggest putting on bug repellant with deet, it works to repell ticks. On dogs use frontline or another form of permethrin insecticide for monthly control. Take off your clothes before you enter the living areas of your house. Inspect yourself regularly for the buggers. Encourage birds like Wild turkeys to hang out in your area. I've read that turkeys eat up to 5 pounds of ticks a day. If you pull a feeding tick off of you, or your dog. I suggest saving it in a pill bottle, the reason is that if you develope a rash or a bulls eye shape on your skin around the bite spot, get to the doctor right away. You may have lime disease and if you by chance you have the tick, the doctor can test it for lime. I remember a story of a person who attempted to remove ticks from a long haired dog. The person tried rubbing alcohol to get the ticks off, that didn't work so they lit a match. The dogs fur caught fire, the dog took off running in the house, the fire was fanned by the running dog and long story short, the house basically burned down becdause the dog ran under the bed. Use the hot match carefully.
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