UK ticks - spring’s here!

[kateincornwall]

Reubs has had his flea/tick treatment , I paid over the phone and the Vet posted it out .I dont treat Nelly at all due to her health issues but being white helps a lot

 

[MellowYellow]

Reubs has had his flea/tick treatment , I paid over the phone and the Vet posted it out .I dont treat Nelly at all due to her health issues but being white helps a lot

Yes I’m grateful for yellow dogs, the ticks are fairly visible - though I got very good at spotting them on Bones’ black fur too!

 

[Charlie]

Good grief here we go again. I removed a half engorged tick from Hattie's ear this afternoon. Really, it has been so cold here, how on earth are they surviving. Time to try out the natural spray I bought for Hattie due to the terrible reaction to spot on and the long recovery. Have some spot on for Charlie xx

 

[kateincornwall]

Oh heck , already ? I usually give the dogs a few months break from flea and tick treatment but maybe I had better start thinking about it now , its so hard to spot them on black dogs as you have discovered Helen , thank goodness you saw it . We walk in deer country too x

 

[Charlie]

It's hard on black dogs, as you say @kateincornwall and with Hattie's added curly coat even more tricky. xx

 

[chrisc831]

Oh Lordy @kateincornwall this puts me in mind of your awful ’personal’ encounter with ticks last year

 

[kateincornwall]

Oh Lordy @kateincornwall this puts me in mind of your awful ’personal’ encounter with ticks last year

Yep , dont want to go through that again , pesky little critters

 

[Boogie]

You’ve just reminded me, Tatze’s Nexgard is due this week.

 

[Atemas]

Tatze’s Nexgard is due this week.

Red’s is tomorrow - written in my diary so I don’t forget

 

[snowbunny]

I find it easier to see ticks on Willow than Squidge and Shadow. Because they are slightly reddy-brown, they show up clearly against her jet black. Whereas Shadow has blotches of darker skin, being a yellow with black pigment, but is less uniform so they can camouflage easier. And Squidge’s hair is so thick, there’s no chance of seeing them if they get in through that.

So far I’ve found three this year, one on each Lab. Squidge and Willow both let me know where theirs were - Willow was fussing her foot where it had attached and Squidge was scratching her ear a lot - it was crawling around the inside. Ick. I think it’s going to be a bad year for them.

 

[Emily_Babbelhund]

Yep , dont want to go through that again , pesky little critters

Can you take Nexgard too?

I've never used anti-tick stuff on Carbon except when we were in Spain and that was just a side benefit of the anti-Leish collar. I need to go to the vet here in Cornwall anyway in the next couple weeks to get more heart worm tabs, any recommendations of what I should ask for against ticks?

 

[Sophiedoodle]

@Emily_Babbelhund i would use Advantix on Oreo, but to be honest, I’m not really doing it regularly... I would only do it when we are going away on holiday with the dogs. I would ideally use something natural like Billy No Mates, but there’s no evidence it’s safe for use in pregnant bitches, so not worth the risk!

 

[edzbird]

but there’s no evidence it’s safe for use in pregnant bitches, so not worth the risk!

Have I missed something?

 

[Jacqui-S]

Have I missed something?

No

 

[Sophiedoodle]

Have I missed something?

Not yet!! But all her health testing has been passed

 

[HAH]

Can you take Nexgard too?

I've never used anti-tick stuff on Carbon except when we were in Spain and that was just a side benefit of the anti-Leish collar. I need to go to the vet here in Cornwall anyway in the next couple weeks to get more heart worm tabs, any recommendations of what I should ask for against ticks?

It’s one of those localized things I understand, so they’ll have a sense of what works best on your local ticks. Our vets recommend Bravecto as the local ticks have developed immunity to many of the other treatments.

 

[kateincornwall]

Reubs has Bravecto , Nelly usually stays close to me on paths so I dont usually give her anything but last year the ticks were so bad that she had to be treated too x

 

[Emily_Babbelhund]

Thanks for the advice.

Carbon's never had a tick here in Cornwall during the same time period, but that may be because I'm not a big one for woods. However we certainly go where there are livestock, so maybe we've just been lucky. I will ask the vet for advice when I go in for the heart worm tabs.

 

[MellowYellow]

Thanks for the advice.

Carbon's never had a tick here in Cornwall during the same time period, but that may be because I'm not a big one for woods. However we certainly go where there are livestock, so maybe we've just been lucky. I will ask the vet for advice when I go in for the heart worm tabs.

If Carbon has never picked up a tick where you are living, then I would caution against treating him with Bravecto or similar.

Merlin has picked up two ticks already this week, even though it is freezing cold here. It was warm a week or so ago though, so I guess the little blighters woke up then. I've order the Scalibor collar for him - I don't like using it, but our woods are crawling with ticks in the spring.

 

[kateincornwall]

@MellowYellow , I agree with you . Our two are walked in deer forests most of the time and during lockdown , the deer have spread down closer to humans , the forests are alive with ticks in spring/summer x