Hope you are much better than I left you several months ago.
I am still in the deep woods in more than one way, but have not logged on for a while.
With many of you being super-knowledgeable about Lyme-related issues, I need your help again.
We have two dogs now and I just pulled 8 lone star ticks off of one of the dog's bellies.
We need tick control!
The dogs live outside - not in the house - but I am around them and their area a lot and here is my question:
do you know how Front Line works?
Do the ticks on the dogs get killed or do they get stopped from biting and then crawl around until they find a better target (me!?!)?
What do you recommend for tick control on your dog(s)?
We have Guineas to eat the ticks, but the foxes and coyotes started getting them, so now we have the dogs to protect them and the Guineas will be able to go out more to eat ticks - but we are not there yet. In the meantime, the dogs are bringing ticks from the woods to the home area and we need to deal with that until the tick population on the property is drastically reduced by the free ranging and protected Guineas.
Heaven on earth is just another corner away.
In the meantime I need to control/kill the ticks on the dogs without getting bitten again or poisoning my birds.
Any input much appreciated!
-Harmony
Posted by Brussels (Member # 13480) on :
I used Front line in the past. They still attach, but sometimes die, in my experience (cat).
I use now Margosa oil, because it's less poisonous for the cat, but it works exactly like Front Line.
I use Borrelia nosodes LM6 ingested for all of us. Our area has long been TOTALLY contaminated, for many years.
If not foxes, there are mice, deer, and other cats walking all over our land, so there is no way to stop the increase of ticks.
The nosodes above is the only thing that INGESTED diminish the amount of bites in cats and us (tick magnets).
Without nosodes, we may get bitten every day. With nosodes, the number of attached ticks fall to about 5 tick bites a year. We still catch many still walking though.
I think ticks contaminated with Borrelia bite us less if we take the nosode (because it is used against Borrelia). Just my guess.
Most ticks have Bb, so the ones that bite us rarely makes us ill (daughter and I, I mean).
My cat never fall ill with Bb.
If you are in an endemic area like I am, meaning, that going out in the garden risks getting ticks EVERY SINGLE DAY since March until October, there is no way to totally protect, in my opinion.
Some people buy those DE to spread on lawn.
Others put poison, but in the end, it may make every living being neurologically more ill with things like Permethrin.
There is Geranium oil, but it costs a lot. You need constant spraying.
We sincerely gave it up long ago. We just go out, pull ticks from our cat every day, spray a bit some essential oils here and there but in no way that is a total protection.
The only protection is to improve the immune system and the Borrelia nosodes, for us.
We've been 8 years lyme free, despite of bites.
I hope you find a solution to calm your nerves. That for me, was the worst, when I was initially confronted with tick infestation.
Now I got used, and as we don't fall ill (knocking on wood), we got much more relaxed and live with ticks as we live with flies.
Posted by map1131 (Member # 2022) on :
Please read about food grade DE for pets. Used for fur and also in their food. Food grade is non-toxic solution for you and your pets.
Pam
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
I saw an ad for Frontline that said it takes 24 hours for the tick to die. OH GREAT!!