Ticks

[Lin]

Originally Posted by MeredithMan

...found a big fat one on the floppy ear of our Golden two weeks ago. Suddenly, this past Saturday, she was limping...got worse as the day went on and by Sat night, she couldn't stand up. Took her to emergency vet yesterday AM...couldn't walk, lethargic, etc. Blood test showed that she has Anaplasma, which is a tick-borne illness, in the Lyme family. A month-long course of antibiotics ahead, but luckily, after just a couple doses, she is now able to get up and walk at least a little bit.

Protect your dogs and yourselves!

MM

Deer ticks are basically out all year. Predominantly adults are fall and winter, nymps springtime and larval summer. Although called deer ticks, white footed deer mice are common mammals that the ticks will live and feed on before they shed them off to the deer, wildlife, dogs, pets and humans. I work in forestry and am outdoors constantly. Many people in our office have had imbedded ticks this year and some of us including me have found over seventy ticks on us in one day. They are horrible this year. It seems as though no insecticides, if you use them which I don't, appears is not working. We are now keeping track of the ticks as part of a study and will be getting lyme disease testing twice a year now rather than the one as an occupational hazard.
http://www.aldf.com/deerTickEcology.shtml