Please help this city guy - Found ticks all over dog

[Crow Hunter]

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.

I have never heard of ticks laying eggs in the house. I have fleas but not ticks. We had a sand flea infestation once that I didn't think we were ever going to get rid of.

I don't have animals in the house though so the only ticks that we ever have are those the got on us out in the woods and they don't hang around long.

We only have American toads. They really only pee on you.

I think they are poisonous if you eat them but our dogs learned quickly to ignore them as puppies. I guess they taste bad. Or having someone pee in your mouth probably tastes bad.

They were some of our favorite things to play with when we were little. My Mom used to say that when I was little I kept one under the couch and fed him moths until she caught me. I don't remember doing that.

My wife and I had a "pet" one when we lived in Clarksville. He only had one eye and my wife felt sorry for him so she would catch bugs to feed him. He eventually got used to us and showed up every night in the same spot for his bug meal.

[KCBRUIN]

I had a tick infestation two years ago. I stopped counting engorged ticks on my GSD at 34. I treated the carpets with a flea and tick killing vacuum powder. Got a granular treatment for the yard that you distribute with a spreader, and then used the liquid spray on the foundation, and deck. I was convinced they were coming from my wife's compost pile because it was constantly full of birds. I nuked the compost pile with liquid bug killer. My neighbor either refused or was incapable of weed eating his lawn so I got some grass and weed killer and sprayed my grass on the fence line and it leeched over about a foot into his lawn. Haven't had a problem since.

[Caduceus]

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 also cant catch lymes if the tick is on you less than 16 hours. And, if youre really worried, a single dose of doxycycline 200mg, is approved under certain circumstances.

[spr1]

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.

Truth.

Each tick can leave 30,000+ eggs. They used to make fumigation sprays that you would fill your house with to kill them. You probably need to call in an exterminator these days.

[Spurholder]

I did the Advantix thing until my vet turned me on to these:

http://www.amazon.com/Bayer-Seresto-.../dp/B00B8CG602

Our Ridgeback puppy - six months old, around 70 pounds - stayed at a friend's farm for a week while we did the Disney thing. When we picked him up, I found exactly one tick on him, right above his foot on his back leg. Better stated, about as far away from the collar as possible.

These collars also last for many months...seemed like a much better deal. HTH.

[Eurodriver]

Doctor gave us a free sample of Nexgard

It's a chewable tablet that kills them after they've bitten her. I'll be looking into a collar for repellant

Right now I'm freaking out about the house and eggs. I've studied the life cycle of these things and there is no way they could've been on her all engorged like that any sooner than yesterday. But all it takes is one getting away and laying its eggs to cause a whole mess. The yard is easy to deal with. The house? Where do I even start...geez...

Pic of tick

[cinco]

Euro, make sure you do not overdose your dog on the tick meds & shampoo. There is typically a window where you need to let one treatment lapse before you treat again. This is particularly true for the flea shampoo treatments. A lot of folks will bath the dog with a pyrethrin or pyrethroid insecticide based shampoo then dose the dog with the liquid treatments (i.e. Frontline). This can lead to an overdose and toxic poisoning where the insecticide passes through the brain's membrane causing all sorts of issues. Your vet should have discussed a treatment cycle - if not give him a call.

[Crow Hunter]

Doctor gave us a free sample of Nexgard

It's a chewable tablet that kills them after they've bitten her. I'll be looking into a collar for repellant

Right now I'm freaking out about the house and eggs. I've studied the life cycle of these things and there is no way they could've been on her all engorged like that any sooner than yesterday. But all it takes is one getting away and laying its eggs to cause a whole mess. The yard is easy to deal with. The house? Where do I even start...geez...

Pic of tick

I can't help you on that one.

I didn't even realize they would lay eggs in your house.

Makes me glad that my dogs are outside.

That "looks" like a deer tick to me based on this doing a Google search of deer vs dog ticks.

I would probably clean really good with a shop vac and search where they would normally hide inside a home. When we had sand fleas we kept using the powder that you put in the carpet and vacuuming every day. They finally went away.

[cinco]

I can't help you on that one.

I didn't even realize they would lay eggs in your house.

Makes me glad that my dogs are outside.

That "looks" like a deer tick to me based on this doing a Google search of deer vs dog ticks.

I would probably clean really good with a shop vac and search where they would normally hide inside a home. When we had sand fleas we kept using the powder that you put in the carpet and vacuuming every day. They finally went away.

I think that is good advice. Look into "diatomaceous earth" powder. Appears you can sprinkle directly on the dog's coat, bedding and carpet and kills the tick via dehydration within 72 hours. Read below as it states completely non-toxic. Disclosure - no direct experience, just remember hearing about it before.

Good info here: http://wolfcreekranch1.tripod.com/di...rth_fleas.html

From wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth

Pest control[edit]
Diatomite is used as an insecticide, due to its abrasive and physico-sorptive properties.[8] The fine powder absorbs lipids from the waxy outer layer of insects' exoskeletons, causing them to dehydrate. Arthropods die as a result of the water pressure deficiency, based on Fick's law of diffusion. This also works against gastropods and is commonly employed in gardening to defeat slugs. However, since slugs inhabit humid environments, efficacy is very low. It is sometimes mixed with an attractant or other additives to increase its effectiveness. Medical-grade diatomite is sometimes used to de-worm both animals and humans.[9][10] It is commonly used in lieu of boric acid, and can be used to help control and possibly eliminate bed bug, house dust mite, cockroach, ant and flea infestations.[11] This material has wide application for insect control in grain storage.[12]

In order to be effective as an insecticide, diatomaceous earth must be uncalcinated (i.e., it must not be heat-treated prior to application)[13] and have a mean particle size below about 12 µm (i.e., food-grade – see below).

Although considered to be relatively low-risk, pesticides containing diatomaceous earth are not exempt from regulation in the United States under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act and must be registered with the Environmental Protection Agency.

[Eurodriver]

Yeah it looks exactly like a deer tick but virtually every website I've looked at said a deer tick in myAO this time of year is like hitting the lottery.

I say hitting the lottery because they can't reproduce inside like dog ticks can.

Either way I've torn the house apart and haven't seen any eggs. They seem to be pretty easy to spot. So far I've pulled about fifty off the dog since I began this dreadful experience. The yard has been totally hosed and I'm only letting her go on a concrete area away from any brush.

The nexgard is supposed to work within 24 hours and the vet said it will be OK with what we've already given her but no more topical for a week minimum.