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?!
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!!!!
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.
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.