Ticks are so GROSS!
I am so sick of ticks. Stefan and I could pick ticks off of Kuta and Monkey, all day long.
Literally. We spend at least a few hours a week, yanking those little blood suckers off of our poor pups. And, it’s not like we don’t try and protect our dogs, it’s just that nothing seems to work. We have our dogs on Advantix (a monthly treatment) and we are constantly giving them flea/tick bathes. As a matter of fact, we have bathed them twice in the last 3 days and we still spent 30 minutes picking ticks off of the dogs today.
Our friends RT and Nora had to take their dogs to the vet to be sedated in order to remove all of the ticks from them.
Another friend uses tick pesticides intended for horses, on his dog.
I don’t know what else to do. Ticks are so gross!! Does anyone else have any suggestions on how we can keep the ticks off of our dogs in Puerto Rico?!
Tick Solution Update
We found a combo of products that have been keeping the ticks and flees off of the dogs;
- Frontline drops every month
- Advantax Flee Collar
This combo has worked like a charm keeping ticks and flea’s off our dogs in Puerto Rico.
May 10th, 2008 at 5:24 am
Go to the vet and get Frontline. That worked on my dog
when I was in PR. I tried the product your using and
it did not work for me.
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May 10th, 2008 at 8:46 am
I use Frontline on my dogs and no ticks. What I did was 1 good tick removal (ie- my hand on the dogs getting the ticks off) and immediate frontline treatments and treats.
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May 11th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
You can bathe the dogs and use a monthly treatment as you have, but checkout where the dogs hand out outdoors. Odds are its infested too. Get rid of all dog bedding and have the yard sprayed. Once done try and get some cut tabacoo to spread around the dogs area. You can sometimes get it at the centro agricola. This has been sucessful on our property. The spraying to kill the ticks, and the cut tabacoo to ward off future ticks. Also keep your fence line clear…bien tal’ao, well cut…as wandering horses, cattle and goats bring by ticks. Those things actually climb up grass and trees and wait to drop.
By the way popping them, especially the large purple ones only helps to spread the eggs. Drown in alcohol & then roast.
A tick joke from a Missourian who lived 35 years as a teacher in Puerto Rico….a regular fixture at the local bar, and a man who loved his beer. Here’s to you Dr. Herb Rein.
Middle of May and a boy is eating the most enormous, purple grapes outside a county gas station when an outsider asks him: “Hey boy, where’d you get ‘em grapes so early in the season?” Young boy replies: “off a dog sir.”
And I know you got tick like that, welcome to el monte and las parcelas yanki.
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May 12th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Summer,
Go to the Agro Store ( Before the Emelina Bakery on 115, on the road to Aguada) and buy Bronco for areas around your house. They also sell pesticide sprayers and have a pesticide ( can’t remember the name, I’ll check with Jean) that we use on our farm and on the outskirts of our property. The owner is a really nice guy and can help you out with whatever you need. Get a Preventic collar for your dogs ( it works!) and you won’t have to keep giving them baths with flea and Tick shampoo. We use Revolution ( Heartworm prevention and & prevention of flea & tick investation)and it keeps all of our dogs ( 4 now) tick & flea free. They still get them once in a while but it kills the eggs so they don’t hatch. If you have any horses or cows around the property you need to start spraying the outer perimiters so that they go away.
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May 14th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Summer,
The name of the pesticide we use on the outer perimeters of our property is Atroban ( I checked with Jean, we have to agressively treat the property due to our neighbor’s horse so that our dog’s are tick free.
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May 14th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Joan – Thanks a million for the suggestions. We got a Preventic collar for Kuta today (they didnt have any in Monkey’s size) and we are still looking for Revolution. I hope it works! The ticks are SO bad. We flea/tick dipped monkey yesterday and she has 1000 new ticks today. So disgusting!
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May 15th, 2008 at 7:48 am
Summer,
Revolution can be obtained through your vet here in P.R. as it goes by the weight of the dog, it sounds like you might have a heavy infestation around the house and you also will have to be very aggresive when treating. We thought we might go nuts when our house got infested with ticks last year, specially our outdoor decks (who thought that ticks could live on cement.) We sprayed Bronco everywhere and finally after about a month of aggresive treatment in and out of the house we got rid of them. Our dogs are finally tick free and happy! We don’t really like to use pesticides but sometimes you have to use them and once you break the cycle they stay away. Good luck!!!!
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May 15th, 2008 at 8:03 am
Poor doggies. Cheech hasn’t been affected has he? We used to use something called Advantage on Raku, but only for a few months a year.
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May 16th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
No hay manera de eradicar las garrapatas pero si se puede controlar y evitar que se queden pegadas a los perros. El mejor producto que puedes usar es Frontline Plus (fipronil). Es indicado para uso mensual pero lo puedes usar hasta cada tres semanas si el problema es sufucientement serio. Revolution no es tan efectivo para las garrapatas pero si puede trabaja es algunos casos. Me imagino que le das medicina peventive de gusanos del corazon a tus perros, tal vez Heartguard, Sentinel o Ivomec? Si no usas nada para prevenir gusanos del corazon entonces puedes usar Revolution. En ese caso, un collar Preventic tambien es recomendado.
Lo otro que tienes que hacer es fumigar las cercanias de tu casa en donde los perros pasan algun tiempo. Frontline Spray es una alternativa. Lo puedes conseguir en 1-800-petmeds sin receta. Pero si vas a una casa agricola te pueden recomendar otros productos similares y mas economicos.
Best.
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July 31st, 2008 at 7:51 am
Hola,
Ok so i live in Las piedras in 3 acres of land and have 2 Rottweiler’s 1 Grate Dane 1 Sharpei and 2 Dachshunds and no ticks.
1 Keep grass mowed!
2 Use Vet office front line, NOW THE DOG HAS TO BE DIRTY in other words you can not bathe him and then treat him .This medicine needs the dogs natural oils to work. Just keep picking them as best you can until you can treat him.
3 All bedding has to be boiled or disposed. Don’t forget toys
4 DO NOT use cattle sprays or dips. They can harm your dogs.
5 Lastly, collars work well for maintenance in between treatments.
Good Luck
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September 30th, 2009 at 10:23 am
I just moved to Rincon and we have only been here a month. We already have had to bomb are house due to ticks and I constantly pick them off of my 3 year daughter! I don’t know where the are coming from because we don’t have a dog. Does anyone have any suggestions. I’m at my wits end with these gross ticks being in my house and on my kids!
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October 21st, 2009 at 10:18 am
Shavonne – Do you have any pets? I don’t know how they would be getting into your house otherwise. It took many many bombings and vacuuming up the tick eggs for many weeks (months?) to finally rid them from our house. Look at your baseboards and slightly up your walls…The tick eggs look like spots of dirt, but take a closer look and they are tiny specks clustered together. I would find several little nests every morning and vacuum them all up. So gross! If you have carpeting in your house it’s going to be even harder to get rid of them.
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August 21st, 2010 at 4:22 pm
Our Rottweiler and ShihTzu are infested. The doctor gave us Frontline and we picked ticks and bathed both yesterday. The doctor said to wait 5 days before spraying. I am not going to let either dog in the yard/grass. I am keeping them on the patio. That may help. They go in the pool daily but that does not help. I do not let the dogs be together.
The rottweiler is sectioned off on the back porch and the shih tzu is in the house. She is not allowed in our bed.
Hope the spray works.
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September 12th, 2010 at 9:22 pm
Oh man did I find one on my bed. I am so sick of them and my mom collection of animals. Along with the increase amount of stray dogs here in Salinas. Disgusting. I don’t really know how long I will last here in PR. Along with the nasty flying roaches.
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December 28th, 2010 at 6:31 am
I have the same problem here in Toa Baja. I am going out of my mind picking the ticks off my 2 pekes. It is worse than ever this year. I am using Frontline and spraying like crazy. I’m going to petco to see if they have anything else.
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July 22nd, 2011 at 11:00 am
Ticks making me crazy in Ponce.
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September 2nd, 2011 at 7:25 am
we just moved to Isla Verde and adopted a street dog who had tons of ticks. we took him to a groomer who dipped him and picked off most of the adult ticks. now our other dog has ticks and even though they both have Frontline Plus on them, they still have new ticks everyday. Now they are on our porch even though I’ ve been spraying. We are thinking of fumigating the house with a service that say they will spray all the baseboards & places where they hide.
has anyone used a service company to rid house of ticks? Which one? did it work? This experience is so maddening. Just moved here a couple months ago from California where we never had probs with ticks!!!! ugg!!!
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