Help Please Ticks Problem - Page 1

MY COCKER SPANIEL HAS BEEN SERIOUSLY ATTACKED BY TICKS, I HAVE GIVEN HER FRONTLINE SPRAY, ND ON THE OTHER SIDE THE TICKS MADE THEIR HOMES TO MANY PLACES INSIDE MY FLAT..I KNOW THAT A LONG COURSE WILL DESTROY THEM....BUT WHAT THE MAIN THING STANDS NOW I WANT TO CUT HER HAIRS COZE IT HAS ALSO BEEN AFFECTED DUE TO HER SKIN PROBLEMS...SO IF I DO IT WILL THE HAIR GROW AGAIN NICELY OR I WILL KEEP IT BY BRUSHING HAIR REGULARLY N FEEDING VITAMIN E....I WANT YOUR SUGESTIONS PLEASE...!!!!

Get a german shepherd and they eat the ticks ....hahahaha

LISTEN ITS NOT FUNNY I HAVE GOT A GSD ND MUCH WORRIED ABT HIM TOO....I WANTED YOUR OPINIONS NOT "KNOWLEDGE" DAT GSD EAT TICKS....HAHAHAHA

PLEASE I NEED HELP!

Cockers are one of the breeds that you can strip (clip very short) and the hair will grow back as it was before.  I can't stand ticks either.  I think if I were you, I'd have both dogs groomed professionally and at the same time have your home fumigated for ticks.  Remember to have your garden sprayed at the same time.  Good luck.

keep him groomed, keep him clipped, bath him whenever the skin/coat starts being "unthrifty" and treat him with Frontline spot-on every month during tick season.  Meanwhile spray your yard, keep your grass cut low, don't let the dogs in long grass - that's where ticks hang out.  If you have any property get a few chickens.  They give nice eggs that will help your dogs' skin/coat (feed them eggs raw a few times/week) and chickens also love to eat ticks.

molly

I have 4 cockers and once in a blue moon when they use to go to the creek , ,,which I put a stop to, they would come back with a tick...I use frontline plus,,and I dont happen to have ticks on my acreage,,,,but next fall ,when the deer come,,,I may have some.....I have seen a tick or two on the gsd...but never more than that......

I shave my cockers two or three time a year, all the way , as they are show coated ,parti color cockers ,.....more hair than I can keep combed....This is Maggie and Sara ready for the Azalea Trail in Tyler , Texas last year...Their hair grows back faster than you would ever believe....

ONE OF MY FREIND SAID NEVER SAY THANKS TO YOUR FREINDS....BUT I WON'T DO IT NOW.....

THANK U ALL

N THE COCKERS ARE REALLY SWEETHEART

Feed garlic this will deter ticks

Scalibor collars are excellent

This year hasn't been too bad, but we do have ticks in Eastern PA... lots of them. I must have pulled 12 off myself after picking berries this year. I use Frontline Plus on the dogs. Unless I forget to apply it for 6 weeks, I see no ticks or fleas on my dogs, event though they run in the forest and swim in the pond much of the time. I just wish I could use that stuff on myself! I'm starting to wonder if all my sore knee/joint problems are due to having contracted Lyme disease. I never got a rash, but can't otherwise explain why my joints are so sore these days. May be time to get tested...

SS

Panpacific,

We, along with several neighbors, had a severe tick outbreak  when a landscape nursery that borders all of our properties sold to a developer and it was SEVERE for everyone, spent over  $1,000 in pest control company treatments in yard and house, lots of toxins - not much help.  Finally found Diatemaceous Earth (food grade only) - google it, I think it was from a place called Wolfcreek Ranch.  Treat your yard, home, pet bedding and especially along the edge of carpets.  The frontline worked great on the dogs, although it's not 100% and we still find a stray now and then.  When I find one, I give it an unusually tragic death (pissed off at all the $$$ I've spent on this problem)