Easy Ways to Control Ticks in Our Dogs. Proper dog care

What are ticks?





Ticks are small, blood-sucking arthropods related to spiders, mites and scorpions. Ticks feed on the blood of other animals. If a larval tick picks up an infection from a small animal such as a vole, when it next feeds as a nymph it can pass the infection to the next animal or human it bites.

Why do I need to control ticks?
• Cause irritation
• Lead to abscesses
• Transmit diseases e.g Lyme borreliosis, Babesiosis,Anaplasmosis, and Rickettsiosis.
How is it possible to control ticks?
A tick-control product can work in a number of ways:
1.    It contains an ingredient that helps prevent ticks from being attracted to your pet – a repellent.
2.    It contains an ingredient that kills the tick once it has made contact with your pet’s skin – an acaricide.
3.    It contains an ingredient that reduces the risk of the tick attaching and taking a blood feed.
On what part of the dog can I see parts?

Ideally, tick checks should be performed daily to reduce the risk of infection, but can be done on weekly bases. Sub-adult ticks can be very tiny (less than 1mm), even when fully engorged with blood. Stroking your pet is a good time to do a finger-tip search for smaller ticks and this can be a relaxing, bonding time between you and your pet.
It is important at grooming to brush against, as well as with, the hair-growth to see any ticks that are close to the skin. Check around and inside the ears, around the eyes, on the chin and around the muzzle, as well as between pads and toes.

What is the best way to control ticks?
1.    Keep grass mowed.
2.    Prune trees, mow the lawn, and clear leaf litter and brush, especially along edges of the lawn, stonewalls, and driveways.
3.    Move play sets away from the woodland edge.
4.    Restrict ground cover in areas frequented by family.
5.    Adopt some landscaping practices such as gravel pathways, mulches, decking, stone, tile, and other hards-capes around the home.
6.    chemical control. Acaricides (pesticides or insecticides that kill ticks) may be applied to lawns and woodland edges to kill ticks around the home. Many pesticide products are restricted to licensed commercial pesticide applicators.

The optimum time for an application to control the nymphal  ticks would be mid-May to early June. A single application of most insecticides is sufficient for the summer tick season. A fall application may be used to control adult I. scapularis.

Chemicals safe for use include


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