TICKS ARE OUT

Stinkbugs too-altho they aren't as bad for a person as ticks.

Whereabouts were you 270?  Hopefully Northcentral, not Southwest.  I haven't seen any since spring

i really really really hate ticks haha. they are the one thing that really creep me the hell out! s-10 you might wanna look into that just to be safe...there are alot of simple medications now to take as a precaution.

add Jefferson County to the list... this year they have been terrible - starting in the spring and still everywhere when you walk in the woods..

25 years ago...never seen a tick...2 of my dogs got lyme...I proable have it or had it..took heavy anti biotics years ago...get bit all the time..google ticks...you will learn they have no predators....fire is only way to kill them..we have put them alive in water and froze them and thawed them out and they crawled around..spray your clothes, have repellent at walmart..hate them..

S-10 trust me on that one..dogs are in the fields all summer and we only get them in spring and fall..tomorrow will be the day they come back out in great numbers..if you get one imbedded...put dawn dishwashing liquid on cotton and rub counter clockwise and it will come right out...wouldn't believe it until i saw it done couple times..remember counter clockwise..don't ask me why..but it works..probable all dish soaps will work..

Had one on me last week but before that have not seen many this year.
Now is the time we all start spending more time in the woods so keep your eyes out.

Permanone, permanone, permanone. You can find it with the other bug sprays at wally world. Just spray your cheap long sleeve tee, waders and anything else you may wear that touches brush and let dry. Lasts weeks even through a wash or 2. I'm sure it causes cancer every pesticide that works well does but you bite your split shot so you won't mind.

rs..whats the prognosis on your lab??? my lab has it too...took med for a month in spring and is ok, now..what did your vet say about long term effects...????....my dog is 2 years old...lyme shots are a joke..they still get it...

270 -

Hank - who is almost 5 - is doing just fine now, and actually was in pretty good shape by the first of the year. Think he was treated around the first of November. I'm pretty sure he picked it up in the early duck season in the South zone.

I noticed a gradual decline in his mobility and interest in working with bumpers and just overall excitement. He'd run through a brick wall to retrieve anything I throw or shoot, but he had zero interest. Just moping around.

I began to get suspicious because I had pulled several engorged ticks off of him a few weeks before he started getting lame, and three off of my own back that were imbedded but not engorged. My doc gave me that mega antibiotic just in case, and I was fine.

The vet gave him antibiotics - which by the way were free through Giant Eagle's free prescription program - and it took him about 3 weeks before he showed much interest again.

He's doing great now - vet didn't really say that there would be any long term effects. He's retrieved a couple of geese so far this year, and I can't wait for the south zone opener next week.

Never tried the vaccine for him, and the vet was pretty up front that it wasn't a highly effective thing anyway. He just recommended that I switch to Frontline instead of Advantix. So far so good.

you are so lucky bing, i am a tick magnet..rs..glad you dog is ok..mine is fine,,vet never told me about giant eagle...how does that work...?????? thanks.

270, not sure if Giant Eagle is still doing their free antibiotic program that they were doing last fall. Basically, they had a bunch of very common antibiotics that were free with a prescription.

So I took the prescription from my vet to Giant Eagle, which they filled for free. It was the same antibiotic that people get for Lyme disease.

tree, I,m not like bings, they like my smell :( !   I was quoting bings.

I started hunting with my dad about 40 yrs ago. We would hunt hard and spend lots of hours in the woods especially with beagles hunting rabbits. Until a few years ago, with the exception of once spring turkey hunting, I never saw a tick. I spent time in the woods in VA, Illinois and eastern PA and they had ticks but never in Western PA. I started noticing the ticks here about 5 years ago. I now have a Brittany Spaniel and in some places it is unhuntable due to ticks. Two years ago I took her out at Armstrong Co and at one point I stopped her in the woods and pulled over 100 deer ticks off of her, just crawling on her. When we got home about 1-2 hr later, there were 30 imbedded in her neck. I use Frontline on her but they only eventually kill them. I can't understand what has happened that these creatures are so plentiful. Last year I was archery hunting and got in some brush and had several on me in a few minutes all deer ticks. Very disgusting.