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Friday, January 16, 2009

THose who have met us recently should know that Chevro's been quarantined coz of the ticks.. so we have decided to share how to deal with the ticks as we have FINALLY cleared chevro and daddy's hse of ticks!! Coz it is truly a gruelling process and super super irritating...

Chevro was infested with ticks, and it took us a whole month to be entirely free of ticks. We tried all the brands on the market, revolution, sentry, zodiac, etc. But all these didnt work, even when we confirm that we had removed the ticks from him. coz the next day, he would have ticks crawling on him again.

Then we started realising that depending on all these alone dont work, we really had to hunt the environment for ticks. After reading articles from US, we started looking ard, and it wasnt until this that we realised that the ticks were actually crawling all over the house one by one!! And the numbers of them were uncountable!! even though we had a white wall, the ticks were sticking onto the walls, there were so many of them, yet nobody realised!!

We took tape, and starting taping those we found, esp on the walls!! they just stick on the walls and wait for the dogs to sit against the wall and then climb onto them! it was really scary... coz we taped ard 300 ticks juz that nite alone... we started using frontline plus on chevro, and the number of ticks on Chevro started reducing greatly, after we manually removed around 50 ticks from him? We almost shaved him down totally!!! but we only shaved some parts in the end coz we couldnt bear to shave his fur down...we also started checking himeveryday several times to remove the ticks on his bodies.

And when we remove the ticks, the wounds are really really scary, coz there's always blood oozing.. so we always put some neem powder on the wound. it helps them to heal faster.

When you know there are ticks around, the best thing to do is to start looking around the house, and make sure that the ticks are not crawling around, and you have to be very very active in checking the environment and dogs every single day. We also make sprays to spray the walls and holes around the house, and use Carrington's to mop the floor. We use accurate, PPP cycle block and Carringtons' to spray the entire house.

if there is more than 1 wound,your house prolly already has ticks hiding all around. it just takes 1 female tick to lay 5000 eggs.. because a tick only bites 3 times in thier lifetime. if there are more than 3 wounds, then prolly there are many more ticks around your house..
your job is to hunt them down, and also check your dog's body daily, remove them manually,and also at the same time, put some spot on on your dog. Be hardworking, and keep checking for ticks non stop, and slowly, you will be able to eradicate the ticks totally....

I've just been thru the gruelling process too, but am glad all is safe, at least for now, as I havent seen a single tick in 1 week, but we are still doing the procedures of checking everyone and everywhere daily.. just in case we left one...

During the infestation period, Chevro was hunting for ticks himself when the house had lots of ticks.. i literally see CHevro hunting and eating ticks from the floor..

Be more careful when you find ticks too, sometimes you may catch 2 ticks clustered together and they are usually mating ticks. If you find wounds without ticks, then the tick has prolly bitten and hiding somewhere else to lay eggs, or waiting to bite another host..

Its a really tiring process, but we have to work hard to help our babies...

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