chinooktrail
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Found one on the dog I am dogsitting last night.
Bummer, but part of life.
Check those little beasties!
griffin said:We have one of these to help with tick removal
http://www.rei.com/product/407126
I'm told they're very helpful for getting them off of kids, too.
griffin said:fyi, dogs are not immune to Lyme disease:
http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/index.jsp?cfile=htm/bc/50600.htm&word=lyme
Not sure about cats.
We have one of these to help with tick removal
http://www.rei.com/product/407126
I'm told they're very helpful for getting them off of kids, too.
jrichard said:All this talk of ticks makes me wonder about how others deal with them during bushwacking.
I just avoid walking off-trail during the spring, and I'm careful to check after a hike or bushwack. Last year I started using permethrin spray. It hasn't seemed to stop the ticks from crawling on my pants. I was hoping to find a dead trail of ticks behind me, I guess.
What do you do?
Dugan said:I have never noticed a difference in tick quantity between bushwhacking and using trailed routes.
jrichard said:Interesting. In ten years or so, I've gotten probably over a hundred ticks bushwacking though the southern NH woods, usually in two or three at a time. But I run on a wide-ish dirt fire road in the same area and have had one - and I suspect that one came from my "lawn". The road and the woods both have plenty of mouse and deer traffic. Maybe that's just my personal experience.
jrichard said:There are several people on the immediate area, including kids, that have had lyme disease. I don't have science behind it, but it seems to me that deer ticks and lyme are now as prevalent in south-central NH as they were in CT years ago.
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