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May 12, 2008, 3:38 PM
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  The Green River UT Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Winthrop, Maine. Finally!!
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| Ticks Hey All, I just took my dog for a walk under the power lines the other day and we both came back covered with ticks. I am not a pansy it was just a huge pain getting them all off of myself and the pooch. Any idea when they slow down enough to get into the brush. I don't mind a few of them but this was just crazy.
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May 12, 2008, 3:52 PM
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 Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Southeast NH
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| I personally never had a problem with ticks having lived most of my life in New England and spent a lot of time in the woods. Maybe one a year. Dogs I've had were another story. Seemed like a daily thing in summer to search for tics on Samson.
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May 12, 2008, 5:03 PM
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 bike shop, wyoming Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Waitsfield,Vt
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| Go to the vet and get some Frontline for the pooch....definately have ticks in Cumberland, ME, not so much in Vermont. We use Buzz Off, a Maine made non-DEET all natural repellant that helps in addition to the other common sense things to do.
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May 12, 2008, 7:28 PM
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  North Peak Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: North Woodstock, NH
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| Yesterday we were getting ready to mountainbike in Berlin, NH, and everyone coming off of the trail told us us that ticks had goot them. We were lucky, no passengers but I have aleady been visited by two ticks............ and that was almost three weeks ago! |
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May 13, 2008, 9:09 AM
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 Enjoying JHMR!!!! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Wilmington,MA
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| Use K9 Advantix. Covers Ticks, fleas and mosquitos. My two may get one or two a year using this.
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May 13, 2008, 11:23 AM
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| bike shop, wyoming Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Waitsfield,Vt
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__________________ www.firstlightphotographics.com It's always a good idea to bring an extra pair of pants when you go golfing as you never know you might get a hole in one. Q: How does a ski instructor become a millionaire A: Start out as a billionaire Q: What do you call a skibum without a girlfriend? A:. Homeless | |
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May 13, 2008, 11:38 AM
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| Several years back..I got a lyme disease tick bite. There was a bullseye on my arm..and luckily I got the right drugs and got the lyme disease zapped from my system. I got the tick bite fooling around the woods in NJ with an ex-girlfriend..and apparently the ticks get lyme disease from deer. |
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May 13, 2008, 11:42 AM
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 Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Westford, MA
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| to the OP - Id suggest getting tested for Lyme. Absence of the telltale bullseye rash is not an absolute indicator that you're not infected with the bacteria. And if it's in your system and goes untreated it builds up until you have serious neurological issues and life basically sux. I know someone who went through it.
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May 13, 2008, 12:05 PM
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| The Green River UT Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Winthrop, Maine. Finally!!
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| Yeah I keep frontline on my dog. And I find that they still will hitch a ride but they die if they cling on. As for me, I was able to remove all of them and none bit me, (all wood ticks). I find that if I stay in wooded areas I am usually ok but if I get into a field or pasture that is when they really come out. I know that spring is the worst for ticks I just am curious when they tone down.
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May 13, 2008, 12:15 PM
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| Enjoying JHMR!!!! Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Wilmington,MA
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Yes it is. It also stops mosquitoes too. I prefer it over frontline.
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