Ticks

[Pike Ridge Beagles]

Me and Pat Diorio went running today down on AEP land and didn't get out until noon. First time Belle had ran in four months due to her heat, litter, etc. We had great running except the ticks are unbelievable. I kid you not - I knocked over 200 ticks off me and probably shook another 100 out of clothing when finished.
May have to try the 7 dust thing next time out. I have never seen this many ticks in my life. The dogs were ate up with them.

When do the ticks go away or down to reasonable level. We had a blast but the ticks sort of were annoying after awhile.

[deadeyebeagle]

ed i have been having the same broblem and just got off the phone with tbrabbitman aka tbturkeyman and told me the same thang what ever i find that works for the dogs im going to use on me 1 or 2 ticks are fine but hundreds just gives me the willys makes me not want to go runnin naaa im still going

[Taitor's kennels]

I just seen a pup that came back from a starting pen in Cumberland Ohio that had what looked like three hundred on her.

[billi]

I think it may be the as bad as i have ever seen here in southern Indiana. We have about 3 different kind. We have in some counties the ones you cant see. You have to take a lice shampoo bath or get a prescription from the doctor onece you get those bad boys. We use a spray the loggers use plus you need to tape your pants closed at the boot level. We also have the one that is just very small then we have the normal size. Once they get the head in i try to use a match to get them out but this only works about half the time. About this time last year i went to the hospital for one bite that swoll up and turned purple. They took blood work but later said no problem just a reaction from the bite...I pretty much have to come strait home take a bath an look all over then you can still miss the darn things. I went in a store the other day on my way from runnin. The clerk said mister you got some kinda bug on your hat. I had pulled some off i guess i just missed one. Just better hope you dont get the ones you cant see...they itch like a bunch of chiggers..

[allniter]

PINE RIDGE---that PAT brought them ticks with him --what dogs did pat run-- ROMEO=RAVEN

[Pike Ridge Beagles]

PINE RIDGE---that PAT brought them ticks with him --what dogs did pat run-- ROMEO=RAVEN

It's PIKE Ridge, . I have been called Pine Ridge a few times, LOL....no biggy, just funn'n.

Yes, Pat brought Romeo and Raven. We ran the crap out of them.
Romeo is one of the best briar bust'n jump dogs I have seen and runs true with speed. Very nice hound all the way around.
I was glad he finally got to see my bitch run and she did a great job, considering all she has been through and about 5 pounds over weight and not ran for so long. All the dogs did good and we had some big runs on dry ground in the afternoon, full sun. Had some really nice circles today and rabbits were staying up.
Pat went home with a pup out of Belle and Dutch. I owed him one for Anna but he never asked for one in return. Pat is one of the best guys I have met in beagling. Great guy!
I am heading for the shower, I am still pulling ticks off me after I stripped down and thought I did a complete search and destroy. I don't know where the colony is hiding.

Ed

[beaglerun]

I posted a topic (Critters Critters Everywhere) not to long ago about the same thing. We've been pulling ticks ever since August of last year. I don't think they ever put up for the winter here in SC. My wife bout went crazy one day last week when a tick was crawling around in my little boys hair (3 years old). I thought I had shaken them all off, and I took my clothes of outside. Before I could get to the shower, he hugged my legs, and there you have it.

Man you should have seen me trying to sneek out of the house to run the dogs without my wife knowing. Of course that same little boy of mine told on me everytime. Little Booger!

[Bev]

I kid you not - I knocked over 200 ticks off me and probably shook another 100 out of clothing when finished.

I avoid summer running at all costs...at least anywhere south of the St. Lawrence River. It's not just the ticks, I can deal with those, but I'm a chigger magnet. The worst I've ever suffered from anything has been the time I got into chiggers running in the pen down at Silver Creek's picnic in July. If I got bit once, I got bit 1,294 times...and those chiggers went places I didn't know I had places.

Permanone (sp?) if you spray your clothing down with it the ticks will leave you alone. Frontline for the dogs is a must if you do much summer running. What ticks get on them will be dead by evening.

[Pike Ridge Beagles]

I hate chiggers! Makes me itch just thinking about them.

I will give Permanone (sp?) a try. I hit the dogs with a little Frontline tonight. I will check them out tomorrow.

Thanks for the tip.

Ed

[Panther Creek]

I went runnin yesterday- had a few ticks, but I know they're going to get worse, as we'va had below normal temps here. What kinda freaked me out was my almost steppin on a huge black snake, & seein one come outa brush pile & climb some limbs to about 10 ft in the air. I didn't if I should watch where I step, or watch what I walk under!
So I don't know about this runnin in the summertime!

[dk steve]

The ticks are gone around here in my part of KY around late July early August. Last year they was gone sooner because it was so dry.I can`t aford Front Line on my dogs . I have too many. I herd there is a coller that works. I think it is called tick begone. It is high but it not near as high as Frontline. What is the cheapest thing to use that works?

[wvduece]

how about cow tags i been thinking about getting me some whats the pro's n cons on them jb

[rabbitearl]

One of the biggest reason we donot have rabbits here in NC like they did 40 years ago is Ticks.I will have lots of rabbits in my rabbits pens till aug and sept.I go in there and see ticks all over the back neck of these rabbits.And have found dead rabbits in there too.I ll sure hope the wildlife people will look in to this.You think about it a tick will pull a dog down and kill the dog so what about them rabbits.They do the same thing to a rabbit.I ve got one 15ac pen that we call the sand hill pen,I donot have to put rabbits in that pen because I never see tick on rabbits in there and it is the thinness pen not much cover but lots of rabbits.And the other pens thick thick and no rabbits in sept but a few will make it.

[full circle kennel]

thanks for the kind words ed! i really appreciate it. i really enjoyed running down there yesterday and cant wait to do it again? i have meet quite alot of people over the years beagling and only a handfull i can truly call friends. you are one of them sir. thanks for the pup! i'm am enjoying her already, nice dog, excellent attitude so far. gimme a ring when you get belle back to her normal weight. those bunnies are in for it.

[Beaglemomma]

Try a collar called Preventic, they are about ten dollars a piece, but they work and they are good for six months. Sevin dust is the other cure. This is going to be a bad year for ticks and snakes, I can feel it. Guess it is the cost of getting old. The weather has been messed up and we are going to pay for it. Have you heard about using dish soap to get ticks off? Supposedly you put dish soap on a cotton ball and hold it on the tick and it comes off. I can't seem to get it right. My son got bit by a tick in December 2005. The tick gave him Rocky Mountain Spotted fever and infected him with staph. He had surgery once and my co pay on 28 days of antibiotics was $431. Them ticks can be expensive. If anyone has a weapon or good cure for them, let us know