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Post by Natooke on Mar 27, 2004 14:20:49 GMT -5
Good Season for Ticks Looms
Thursday, 2004-03-25
Experts say the coming spring and summer here will very likely bring with them an unusually large population of ticks.
Professor Thomas Jaeseon of Uppsala University says two warmer than usual summers and the apparent early spring this year will favor the tiny creatures.
They are common in several parts of Sweden, including the Stockholm archipelago and the island of Gotland.
Ticks are of concern here because they can carry Borrelia, or Lyme disease, and the virus TBE.
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Sandy
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Post by Sandy on Mar 29, 2004 7:50:20 GMT -5
Ush!! I hate ticks!  |
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Post by Sabeine on Mar 30, 2004 17:19:26 GMT -5
Is there any way to prevent ticks? Any spray of sorts?
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Post by Pam on Apr 2, 2004 11:50:06 GMT -5
I don't know of any spray proven for cats but if you can stand to feed them half a clove of garlic a day in their food, the ticks can't stand it any better than we can and won't want to hang on to your cat.
I recently saw on a British show an easy way to remove ticks after they've already attached. A vet showed us that ticks breath through little slits on each side. He said coat the tick with vaseline and it will suffocate. That way you can pull it off without risking leaving the head.
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Vember
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Post by Vember on Apr 6, 2004 16:40:46 GMT -5
He said coat the tick with vaseline and it will suffocate. That way you can pull it off without risking leaving the head. That or nail polish. I prefer nail polish personally, you have a little disc of hardened polish (though it can pull hairs ...) oh wait, you're talking about on cats! Vaseline is probably best then. Well, if you do it on your person, I recommend the polish because you don't have to handle the icky bug body and the hardening of the polish is a good idea for knowing how long to wait for the sucker to really be good'n'dead. Also, a tip for plucking ticks: Turn them on their backs. Their necks are joined to their heads in such a way that the head is easily detachable (so the head can survive, feed, and grow a new body) but it cannot detach when pulled at an up-side-down angle. So flip the buggers onto their backs, then pull. Just in case you're out of of vaseline or nail polish  (Can you tell I grew up plucking ticks off myself and pets for several years? Ah to be a kid with a forest playground again.) |
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