Guest KsFrets Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 This is a first. It's DECEMBER for goodness sake! The last tick I saw was in early September. The last application of Front Line was late September. It's been freezing outside at night for the last couple months. Earlier this week I was giving Magnus scritches... felt a bump... checked it out... and removed a happy healthy live tick! Then just yesterday, the exact same thing happened with MamaLisa! I hope it's just a fluke. After extensive investigations, no more ticks have been found on the three M's or their beds. I've had dogs for nearly half a century, and have never seen a tick in December! Where in the world did they come from? How did they survive? Where did the poopers pick them up from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MP_the4pack Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 I've come to the conclusion that there are no ticks in summer, JUST winter. I've found ticks on my girls with 4 inches of snow on the ground in Jan. It sucks. (I'm in NJ) The ticks I find are the deer ticks. Wood/dog ticks are in the late spring early summer. Nothing in the summer and the deer ticks start in the fall. That's what I've seen lately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macoduck Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 Every year we seem to be tick-free until November/December/January. We rarely see them the rest of the year. I think the little boogers seem to want one last hurrah before the deep freeze of winter. Quote Freshy (Droopys Fresh), NoAh the podenco orito, Howie the portuguese podengo maneto Angels: Rita the podenco maneta, Lila, the podenco, Mr X aka Denali, Lulu the podenco andaluz, Hada the podenco maneta, Georgie Girl (UMR Cordella), Charlie the iggy, Mazy (CBR Crazy Girl), Potato, my mystery ibizan girl, Allen (M's Pretty Boy), Percy (Fast But True), Mikey (Doray's Patuti), Pudge le mutt, Tessa the iggy, Possum (Apostle), Gracie (Dusty Lady), Harold (Slatex Harold), "Cousin" Simon our step-iggy, Little Dude the iggy ,Bandit (Bb Blue Jay), Niña the galgo, Wally (Allen Hogg), Thane (Pog Mo Thoine), Oliver (JJ Special Agent), Comet, & Rosie our original mutt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gryhnd_adoptee Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 (edited) Do you by chance have a wood burning stove or fireplace, and store wood nearby? They often burrow into the bark to hibernate and come up when it warms up if wood is stored in a bit warmer garage, or an inside firebox. We often have mosquitos in the house long after they are gone outside. They hibernate in the wood too, and come out to feast when we bring the wood inside the house each night for the fireplace. Edited December 9, 2010 by gryhnd_adoptee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexi Posted December 9, 2010 Share Posted December 9, 2010 Bugs, yuck!!! It's 26°F outside and I saw a big spider hanging from a web right outside the door at grocery store. I get the feeling he was waiting for somebody to walk under him so he could jump on and get a free ride to a warm house. Quote Lexi (mom to Nok, the former feral black kitty) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greyhoundlov Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 Ticks never go away. Quote Mary in Houston Everyone has a photographic memory, but not everyone has film. LAND OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KsFrets Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 We don't have any wood around, or a wood burning stove. We do go running every evening through a golf course and a large field with a creek and ditches, and there are LOTS of very deep leave piles the form in the low parts. The dogs totally LOVE charging through these piles and rooting through them looking for goodies like squirrel poo and bunny nests. Hmmmmm as deep and damp as these leave drifts are... I wonder if ticks are surviving in there just waiting for warm doggies.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinM Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 We have never had fleas, but we do this year and this time of year. I don;t get it either. I think (and I say that gingerly) we may be getting it under control! Quote ROBIN ~ Mom to: Beau Think It Aint, Chloe JC Allthewayhome, Teddy ICU Drunk Sailor, Elsie N Fracine , Ollie RG's Travertine, Ponch A's Jupiter~ Yoshi, Zoobie & Belle, the kitties. Waiting at the bridge Angel Polli Bohemian Ocean , Rocky, Blue,Sasha & Zoobie & Bobbi Greyhound Angels Adoption (GAA) The Lexus Project Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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