Ticks!

[Guest]

Hey Mike, I thught you were in the roomwith Jason tackett and you guys threw them on him all night? Or were you in another room? Thanks, David Ramey

[DarrinG]

I use Sevin dust too, have been using it for 5-6 years on my hounds and have no tick, flea or lice problems. I do like Pappy but I went to the store and bought a large kitchen sifter or a large salt shaker and filled it up with Sevin dust. I dust the dogs and sprinkle it in their boxes well. That way what the dogs shake off or run off in the weeds, when they lie down in their boxes at night it gets right back on them.

Sevin dust has worked well for me and I will keep using it!

[Bopeye]

The guy I use to run dogs with when I was a teenager had an unusual concoction he put on his dogs. I hope I can remember it all.

If I remember right, he would take a plug of tobacco and put it in a mason jar of vodka and add some sevin dust to it, I can't remember how much.
He'd let that set for a few days and then would pour all the juice through a cloth into a bowl and squeeze the remaining juice out of the tobacco. He would then mix a whole jar of vaseline into the bowl. When he had it mixed good, he would put it back in the vaseline jar.

When he put it on his hounds, he would smear a little around their ears, neck, under their legs, on their belly and rump. He claimed it would keep mites, chiggers, tics, fleas, mosquitoes, thieves or anything else that wanted your dog away. I don't know if it really worked or not and I have never tried it. I just thought it would be fun to put his concoction on here.

Oh yeah, he claimed it was good for their skin and stayed on longer. Who am I to argue with a fella that had run dogs when I was still in diapers.

I feel like I have left something out, maybe some sort of pepper or something. I can't remember, it's been too long ago, but it was fun travelling down memory lane trying to remember this snake oil remedy.

Take care

[Boomer]

Frontline kills them on dogs wonderfully.

When I pull a live-one off, I toss them in the toilet. The buggers float, so I drop some liquid soap on them, and it breaks the surface tension and sinks them. I've still seen them crawling after 30 minutes or so of being submerged. They can take enough air down with them to last a long while. I wait until they're dead before flushing. I used to flush them live, but one time I opened-up a septic-line cleanout to check on things, and there were some live ones inside the riser pipe. It would've been pretty much impossible for them to have gotten there any way other than being flushed-down the toilet. I guess they probably couldn't have done much of anything down there, but...the only good tick is a dead-and-gone tick.

[EagleBeagler]

also cedar chips in the dog box helps keep fleas off off as well it doesnt seem to stop ticks but it does help control the fleas and keeps the dog box smelling fresh

[Robert W. Mccoy Jr]

Seven dust works if you only have a few adult flea's.

It doesn't cure the problem.

Fleas have four stages of life, adult, larvea, pulpa, and egg.

For every flea you find there are approximatly 50 in differant stages getting ready to turn into adults.

The only thing that is 100% affective on fleas is suspend.
http://www.pestproducts.com/petcor.htm


For ticks I use orange cattle tags.

Put the orange cattle tag on your dogs collar and leave the tick on him.

Go and look the next day, all the ticks will be dead.

I had a guy tell me about those cattle tags and I tried them out after leaving the indiana pp state hunt. My dogs were loaded with ticks.

The next day after putting them on all the ticks were dead.