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treble02
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wmars1776
Terrier Terror
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| 05/08/2008 10:47 AM |
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| Keep you eye on it to make sure it doesn't get infected. Even with products like Frontline - they only help reduce the pests. |
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Bill - "Smokey's" Dad
Cumberland, Rhode Island
"To everything, there is a season"
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ladyfern
Bratty Ratty
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| 05/08/2008 10:58 AM |
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| It's tick season to be sure. We found one about half the size of a dime on the cat's chin last night. Yuck! A nightly massage for pup is in order to be sure none hide in his fur. Make sure to check the collar line, armpits and the base of the tail closely. |
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ladyfern & shiloh
If you want the best seat in the house ... move the dog!
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Amy
Bratty Ratty
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| 05/08/2008 11:06 AM |
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The ticks are AWFUL up here in Maine! Yaz got many on her last year and it's already started this year. I rub her down everytime we come inside. They are so bad this year that they are in the mulch on my daughters school playground. The kids are having to be checked after recess. Ew. |
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thecunninghams5.shutterfly.com
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Mitzy's Mom
PAWesome
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| 05/08/2008 11:22 AM |
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| Just make sure you got all of the tick out of him and it doesn't get infected. |
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Mary Beth, mom to the Lollipop Kids
Georgia Foster Mom, New Rattitude
Check out our ratties at www.newrattitude.org |
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rattytatty
Training Moderator
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| 05/08/2008 11:27 AM |
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Mary, you're so funny! Is this the first tick you've ever seen on one of your dogs? Even with using Frontline Plus, they get on my dogs sometimes, but seldom become embedded in the skin.
Just keep an eye on it...
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~Nora~
Mom to Hoss, Lil'Bit, Buster & Bailey, CGC, OA, OAJ |
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NIckle's Mom
Ratastic
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| 05/08/2008 12:14 PM |
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| Mary my daughter lives in Newport News, VA and the ticks are horrible.So when I was visitig her with my dogs even though they had the frontline on I still sprayed their feet and legs with bio spot. Just to reinforce the frontline being the ticks are so horrid. Two of my grandsons already had ticks on them this year. It is just one of those bad years that comes every ten years or so. |
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"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open" |
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Ski
Ratastic
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| 05/08/2008 12:23 PM |
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Make sure to grab it as close to its head as possible, pulling it straight back out (not up) without twisting it. Also, don't try smothering it with vaseline, burning it off with a match, or squishing it. Doing these can make the tick regurgitate its infected saliva into your dogs bloodstream, increasing the chance of getting a disease. |
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Erinj09
Ratastic
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| 05/11/2008 7:53 PM |
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i heard you were suppost to either smother it or burn it to get it to burrow out, but never to smath it or pull it, because then the head might break off the body leaving it in the skin. what are you suppost to do then?
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Proud owner of a rat terrier resides here.
Kahlua is my new puppy,Olive is my kitty-kat, Oh and 3 fish (Bonnie, Indiana Jones, and Rafiki) lol I love my animals hehe
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take...but by the moments that take our breath away" |
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Susan
Terrier Terror
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| 05/11/2008 8:16 PM |
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| We have always unscrewed them counter clockwise so as to make sure the head comes away with the body. There are not many ticks here, it rains and drownes the little monsters. But once in a great while we find one on the dogs. Yea, the flea/tick stuff does not always keep them off, but it sure helps. I grew up in tick country even the poor little blue-belly lizards would have ticks in their eyes and ears! Very Yucky! |
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ANYTHING WORTH DOING IS WORTH OVERDOING Mom of eight, only three left at home! Pack leader to ten ratties: Maggie, Mysty, Berry, Simon, Ceecee and five puppies, Star,Sari, Bluebelle, Double stuf,and Snortie. As well as Ginger the Border Collie and a herd of turkeys! |
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Erinj09
Ratastic
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| 05/11/2008 8:20 PM |
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i dont know how common they are here. im in washington and at home it rains a lot, were close to seattle, but here at school it doesnt rain much and there is no humidity, still close to seattle though. i should look and see haha
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Proud owner of a rat terrier resides here.
Kahlua is my new puppy,Olive is my kitty-kat, Oh and 3 fish (Bonnie, Indiana Jones, and Rafiki) lol I love my animals hehe
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take...but by the moments that take our breath away" |
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Susan
Terrier Terror
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| 05/11/2008 8:48 PM |
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| Not many ticks in western washington! Too much rain and I like it! |
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ANYTHING WORTH DOING IS WORTH OVERDOING Mom of eight, only three left at home! Pack leader to ten ratties: Maggie, Mysty, Berry, Simon, Ceecee and five puppies, Star,Sari, Bluebelle, Double stuf,and Snortie. As well as Ginger the Border Collie and a herd of turkeys! |
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winnihoohoo
Bratty Ratty
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| 05/11/2008 9:09 PM |
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| I found one on Remi's neck under his collar the other night. I turned it counter clockwise til it came out, head and all, then I burned it in the sink, with a lighted match! |
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Erinj09
Ratastic
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| 05/11/2008 9:28 PM |
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Susan,
youre from washington!? awesome, not many people ive run into with ratties here. it rains alot at home so probably not many tics, but i am sat school in ellensburg, not much rain. do you think there are more here? where did you get you rattie? wow i just noticed you A LOT of dogs! where are they all from!?
~Erin |
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Proud owner of a rat terrier resides here.
Kahlua is my new puppy,Olive is my kitty-kat, Oh and 3 fish (Bonnie, Indiana Jones, and Rafiki) lol I love my animals hehe
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take...but by the moments that take our breath away" |
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Jules
Firehouse Big Dog
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| 05/11/2008 11:39 PM |
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| Wow your lucky you just encounter one for the first time. My dogs get them all the time. Tick collars don't help much and neither does Advantix. Just gotta feel thru the dogs fur before they get their heads in. |
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tiggarat
Bratty Ratty
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| 05/12/2008 3:10 PM |
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| I got something at the pet store that looks a lot like a small measuring spoon with a V shaped slit in it that's made to remove ticks. I used it the last time Rosie had a tick, and it worked great...the tick came out easily (at least a lot easier than with tweezers). |
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Lisabeth
furbabies: Lucy and Molly (1 1/2 yr old decker ratties), and Rosie (3 yr old dobie)
Buddy - gone but never forgotten.
"I don't think he has any idea he's a dog, really. Of course, he thinks he has a rather odd figure for a man" - Dodie Smith |
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