Ticks

[shirley c]

Touch wood never had ticks on this lot. Allans old dog Bess had a longer coat, she was mostly collie and had ticks twice so we are very lucky.

We went to Stirling SPCA to get a ferret and on the way home discovered it was covered in ticks took it to our vet immediately..... well have you tried removing ticks from a ferret....the vet removed them all and never charged us a penny ....have I said before I love my vets, though am devastated Mr Smith has retired

We are very well known at our vets, with the amount of animals we have
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lurchers Pixel and Zev and whippet, Fen
3 cats, Greebo, Yu and Lexx - 2 ferrets and Dales pony Jazz and adopted pony, April

[Nicola]

[suzanne l]

personally i find tick removers the best, very quick and easy to use and you can be sure the full thing is removed. lawries sell them for about £2. frontline is good as well, although it doesnt really stop them attaching in the first place, but kills them once theyre on.
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your cat will never annoy by barking at 3am, he wont attack the postman or eat the curtains, although he may climb them to see how the room looks from the ceiling...

[marcella]

Yeah, having tried that today I agree. That little gadget I bought today was £1.69 in Acorn pets and it removed it legs and all very easily and cleanly.
Beats trying to get it stoned on alcohol and then grabbing it with tweezers!

[Nicola]

I had a danny longs legs in my bedroom this morning, it flew in the window I had to get my granpa to come and remove it....he picked it up with the legs and flushed it down the loo!

Not that this is really to do with ticks...but they are all horrible wee beasties!

[suzanne l]

thats a bit harsh! poor wee thing, i just put them out the window.
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your cat will never annoy by barking at 3am, he wont attack the postman or eat the curtains, although he may climb them to see how the room looks from the ceiling...

[Nicola]

[Janice]

Have I got it wrong or are there some nasty chemicals in Frontline? I picked up the idea that there were organo-phosphates in it, but I may have got it wrong.

Anyway I'm wary of using it, just a couple of times in the summer. In 23 years I've only once seen a flea and I'm not sure if it really was one so I guess I've been lucky. The tick twister seems a great way to get rid of ticks.
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Janice and Dale

[StuartW]

[Nicola]

There probably is, Janice, but I like it for my dogs. I think the benefits outweigh the cons, but everyone is an individual. I have a friend who has a standard poodle who never uses any flea prevention treatments. She does use wormers regularly though.

[shirley c]

I worm regularly, dogs, cat and pony but i dont use much in the way of flea stuff. I go over the dogs every once in a while with a flea comb, then if I find any they all get the frontline spray and I have only had to do that once this year, twice last year none the year before. We all eat a lot of garlic in this house though
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lurchers Pixel and Zev and whippet, Fen
3 cats, Greebo, Yu and Lexx - 2 ferrets and Dales pony Jazz and adopted pony, April

[Sheryl]

Ive checked over the boys and I cant seem to see anything or feel anything would anyone mind helping me (I know its not the nicest job and I wont ask them to take it out) i know what Im looking for but Im just not sure if im checking hard enough!!

xx
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Kindest Regards,
PRINCESS Sheryl, Keano and Coby.

[Janice]

I'm scared to ask this but are there problems with worming?
Dale's still quite likely to grab a mouthful of something horrible when he's off lead if I'm not quick enough so I've been worming him every 3 months.
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Janice and Dale

[Karen]

I was caravaning a couple of years ago and found a tick on one of the boys, had tweezers but no surgical spirits so I used nail varnish remover it worked though looking back probably not the smartist thing but didnt want to leave it on him,

[StuartW]