Parasite prevention playbook: Protect your dog from fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes
Discover top parasite prevention tips for your dog. Defend against fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes to keep your pet healthy year-round.
Ticks
Ticks may be found anywhere on your dog. They especially favor the neck, in the armpits, in and around the ears and between the toes.
- Avoid brushy, grassy or woody areas, especially in spring and summer. Ticks LOVE warm weather.
- Clear leaves, tall grass, and brush around areas you and your dog enjoy around your house.
- Move anything that attracts deer or rodents…chief carriers of ticks.
- Get a couple of Guinea hens. They LOVE ticks! Two Guinea fowl can clear a couple of acres of land infested with ticks, in a single season.
- Use a topical tick treatment on your dog during the warmer seasons. You won’t need it, if the temperature remains below 32 degrees F.
- It takes roughly 24-48 hours for a tick to transmit bacteria. It’s vital to remove them as soon as you discover them. If you are lucky, you will find them before they begin to burrow in.
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Protect your dog from ticks
Ticks may be found anywhere on your dog. They especially favor the neck, in the armpits, in and around the ears and between the toes.
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By Karen A. Soukiasian Lyme disease is a zoonotic, bacterial, vector borne disease of the Borrelia burgdorferi group. It got its name from the towns of Lyme and Old Lyme, Connecticut, because in 1975, numerous cases with similar symptoms suddenly emerged in that region. In 1982, the bacterium was isolated and named. It was also…
