Pulled the first one off my underarm this morn... In NJ seems they are everywhere starting now. Had a rash last year it was Lyme but went away after a week of antibiotics, hate them suckers!

 

I ordered a broadcast spreader to put on the back of my tractor to spread cedar bits

 

Found my first one last week, firmly attached.

 

I always wear tall socks folded over when I'm working in the yard. Thankfully I haven't seen any yet in OK.

 

My dad grew up in Pa. coal country and never saw a tick until he came to NJ... wonder if that is true today.

 

I usually get ticks on me all summer. Once I read that permethrin is a good tick repellant. You spray it on your clothes and it does an excellent job repelling them. The can says it's good up to 45 days even after the laundry. I didn't realize the stuff on my clothes was getting on my dog. Permethrin is very toxic to dogs and my dog got lung cancer and died. So any more I don't use anything and just pick them off. Apparently the ticks in the Greater Stockbridge Area don't have any disease because I'd be a goner for sure with as many I've picked off me.

 

That's too bad your dog died. Did you have a landscaping company spray your lawn with that, or did you just spray your do when going out?

 

Whenever I'd work in the yard I'd spray my pants and socks. I didn't know it was bad for dogs. Then I'd come in and play with him and roll around with him, and a few months after yard work season he got real sick and died. It was weeks later I happened to be reading about it and it said highly toxic to dogs. So I killed him and didn't even know it. I was kinda freaked out about it for a long time.

 

I work in Forestry and fight a running battle with ticks when I'm in the field. Deet isn't as strong as Permethrin so it's not as effective. But I'll spray my pant legs down with that before I crawl through the brush. It helps a lot! I've had one tick test positive for Lyme, but when I get one drilled into me, I do like to have the tick checked. It was an extreme case, but I had a co-worker die from Lyme complications several years ago.

 

When I worked in the field dawn>dusk (for NPS & FWS) I had a sock filled w/ sulfur and I dusted myself everywhere w/ sulfur.

 

Mike, I have not seen that. All the information I have seen says it is highly toxic to cats, but not to dogs.

 

Kenneth I just looked it up and it does indeed say that it's toxic to cats and tolerated by dogs. But I can tell you as sure as I'm sitting here that I read one time that it was toxic to dogs. So hey, maybe I didn't kill my dog, that's a relief.

Still not gonna use it with a dog in the house.

 

Mike, I do not think you killed your dog with permethrin on your clothing. Sever adverse reactions like that would have been readily communicated throughout the dog communities. I have been cognizant of such things for 40 years as a dog person and never heard of it.

 

We never had them in Michigan until 5 yrs ago or so. I remember hearing about tics in the southern states. Now we got 'em. I was sitting on the ground in my yard making a form for concrete pad for generator. One burrowed into my back. Couldn't even feel it. It broke off in me- had to get some antibiotics. Now I am more careful.

 

It took 9 months to get over Rocky mountain spotted fever. So I hate them too.

 

My wife contracted Rocky Mountain Non- spotted fever. Both non-spotted and spotted variants exist.

What we have in the USA is small spuds relative to Africa. Fortunately, we see birds there which consider them a delicacy and eat them while they are still attached to animals.

 

Had a friend get Lyme disease from a tic. He's never been the same. It was 10 years ago at least. I go to a beach here in NW Indiana almost daily with the doggo. The tall grass is so full of tics I have to check him before we leave. I'm getting good at it though. The beach is magic. I can't miss it.

 

Thanks for the reminder. Had to give puppers her flea and tick chew.

 

Thanks Kenneth. That sure is an odd feeling thinking I caused his cancer. Must have been just a bad coincidence.

 

Ticks are really bad here in Kentucky. We spray our field with Talstar P every three months and never have any problems. Prior to spraying i used to average two to five ticks a week!

 

[QUOTE=Tri-Carb;1674486]My wife contracted Rocky Mountain Non- spotted fever. Both non-spotted and spotted variants exist.

I must have gotten the non spotted type. It was one of the reasons it went undiagnosed for so long. Didn't know there was such a thing.