Please help this city guy - Found ticks all over dog

[Inkslinger]

Lyme disease is a concern, so you definitely want to get your pup to the vet, or at least give a call and see what they recommend.

You can vaccinate your dog for Lyme. Like others have said, steer clear of overgrown areas and areas with a lot of leaf litter. You can take the small ticks and have them tested. If any are deer ticks, good luck! They literally look like a speck of dirty. People usually assume small ticks are deer ticks. I had Lyme disease and never found one tick, and I don't have nearly as much hair as dog! Close though...I've deployed free range chickens on my property to help with ticks. I sure don't find as many on my pooch now.

[Eurodriver]

Thanks crow hunter and others.

Here are the ticks I've gotten since I made this thread. Luckily, they all appear to be dead or dying from the bath. About 90% of these were taken off of her paws. The gorged ticks were all about the size of a pea and grey. Gross little things.

[SteyrAUG]

Hate to say those "once a month" treatments really don't work in areas where fleas and ticks live in large numbers. Even though they say it works through regular bathing and stuff like that, it really doesn't.

Here is your solution: Adams flea and tick spray.

Since you currently have a problem you need to use it daily, probably a couple times a day, and for probably 10 days. Don't forget to do your home where fleas and ticks have dropped eggs waiting to hatch. Spray EVERYTHING, especially dog bedding.

Do this once or twice a week after the 10 day saturation period. You also want regular Adams flea and tick spray, don't buy "water based."

Once you have everything under control and have eliminated any "hatching cycle" in your home you can simply go to spraying your dog down once to twice a week depending how often you bathe your dog and how long your dogs is outside during the day.

Think of it like spraying yourself with OFF when in a mosquito infested area.

I have had dogs in south Florida for over 30 years where fleas and ticks are everywhere and I've tried and used everything. Adams is what works most reliably.

[SteyrAUG]

Frogs and toads are cool.

Not sure what toads you have in your area, but the Bufo Toads we get down here can kill a dog. The venom is secreted out of their skin so when a inquisitive or playful dog picks up a toad they get a mouthful of venom.

Toads die on sight.

[Inkslinger]

Not sure what toads you have in your area, but the Bufo Toads we get down here can kill a dog. The venom is secreted out of their skin so when a inquisitive or playful dog picks up a toad they get a mouthful of venom.

Toads die on sight.

Aren't they the ones people lick?

[SteyrAUG]

They don't lay eggs in your house.

I beg to differ. I have a friend who got hit pretty hard. Took him two weeks to get ticks out of his home. He'd spray the floors, crawl spaces and under every piece of furniture and within two hours he'd have a few dozen ticks half way up his walls in the same room.

Ticks are really no different than spiders except they are a lot harder to get rid of.

[SteyrAUG]

Aren't they the ones people lick?

All kids of toads, pretty sure I wouldn't recommend licking a bufo. But they are the most common south florida toad.

[Crow Hunter]

Those look like Dog ticks to me. But it is hard to tell size.

If they are dog ticks, you don't have to worry. They don't carry Lyme. They carry other things though.

I would go with what Steyr says to use because he lives in your latitude.

The treatment I posted works for me an my 2 dumb labs in Northwest TN. It might not work for you in Florida.

My knuckle heads run out into the woods and tall grass pastures every day and if I don't use that treatment, I have to pull ticks off of them. If I use that treatment I don't.

Mine are also outside dogs.

[montanadave]

What with the tick and scorpion threads lately, I will never bitch about twenty-five below zero cold snaps again.

Please remind me off this post come next January or February.

[Eurodriver]

I beg to differ. I have a friend who got hit pretty hard. Took him two weeks to get ticks out of his home. He'd spray the floors, crawl spaces and under every piece of furniture and within two hours he'd have a few dozen ticks half way up his walls in the same room.

Ticks are really no different than spiders except they are a lot harder to get rid of.

Well aside from that one a few days ago, I haven't seen any ticks anywhere but on the dog.

The dogs bedding has been tossed and I've sprayed the couch (the only furniture she gets on) and floor thoroughly.