What wildlife wanders the woods to make ticks so prevalent? The only one Coco has ever picked up was in an ex-cow/sheep field. I do avoid these areas usually as I'm quite tick-squeamish. I was thinking of ticks this morning when we reached a grassy spot in the middle of the plantation & the dogs ran around, but I don't think there's much wildlife that makes it into the wood. I've seen rabbits & hares near the edge. The dogs were both clear. I don't use tick repellent/killer. I think we're jolly lucky to have no deer/foxes/badgers here as far as ticks go.Had the most tick-ey walk EVER this afternoon- I was stopping Kipper every few metres to check him, literally took off over 20 ticks. Beautiful woodland, but we’ll be avoiding it until it’s a lot drier and hotter.
It’s definitely deer round us - red deer and roe deer are both common, we quite often see them on walks. I’ve become less squeamish with ticks and enjoy crushing them - but would much prefer it if they b***ered off. Happily the bravecto seems to put them off attaching most of the time for now, but I do hate the little perishers.
None at all . Sam always had it and no way was it connected to Lymphoma , all the little ones had it too and now Reuben who had it last week with no effects x
I haven’t noticed any, but of course that doesn’t mean there aren’t any. And individual differences mean what works for one might not work for another - very sensible to think it through.
I was really hesitate to use any flea/tick treatment as Ella hadn't had fleas in her four years (I stupidly thought that her wormer had flea treatment but apparently it hadn't!
) and we don't have ticks in our area.
Actually, I do now know that Poppy's seizures were triggered by the Bravecto. She always only had seizures in the spring and the autumn - which is when we were using the Bravecto. Unfortunately she now also reacts to the collars, so at the moment I am not using any flea or tick preventatives with her. Merlin has the collar, which works wonders for the ticks in our area.
Yup. Snowie had two grand mal seizures within weeks of taking one Bravecto tablet. Since stopping all tick and flea spot ons and tablets two years ago, he’s not had a seizure. There’s a Facebook page for people whose dogs have died or been poorly after taking Bravecto. There are 1000s of cases worldwide. The FDA recently made the manufacturer add a warning about seizures to the packaging. It might not have an adverse effect after the first dose, but additional doses can affect the liver with the accumulative effect.
That is true, and is also true of the spot-ons AND the collars. People assume that they can just take the collar off, but it doesn't work like that - the drug is absorbed through the skin and spreads throughout the body. I assume that the drug absorbs more slowlyand so won't stick around as long after you remove it, but it'snot an immediate effect by any means.
although most cite the 24 hours.
