Damn ticks!!
 

My little Doodle started coming up lame, one leg, then another, I immediately suspected Lyme Disease and started her on doxycycline. Finally got her into the vet, wasn't Lyme, but it's first cousin anaplasmosis ---the treatment is the same. Leaving Tuesday for the UP, hope she recovers, she has become my favorite dog to hunt over.

My lab Fox had it in spite of being on the preventative meds. No problems once she got the antibiotics in her. Doodle will get over it but it will show up in her blood tests her whole life. Good luck in the UP.

Harold, I assume the Lyme vaccine doesn’t work on this?

Good luck to you and Doodle.

Daryl, assume you will be heading to SD in a week or so. Do you have another lab now?
Good luck out there.

Yes heading to SD next week and no I haven't found the lab I'm looking for yet. Hopefully soon as it's lonely around here without one.

For the last ten years or more the ticks in Vermont have been on the rise, to the point that I've treated all of my outerwear with Permetherine for five years now.

This year so far, we haven't seen a single tick.





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Dean, same here so far haven't seen a single tick.

Maryland is infested with them.

There are tons of ticks in the UP right now. I comb them off of my Setters after every run. I have not found any stuck,I put new Soresto collars on them before I left home and spray our clothes with permethrin.

That's what I do Jim, I'll be up there Tuesday.

We just made a quick 1 hour run near Bemidji, MN and picked no less than 50 ticks off 2 dogs and 10 off myself. I hate ticks.

Daryl, you need a female 4 year old sable colored German Shepherd. Just sayin'.

Yeah this seems to be a record breaking year for ticks. I can't remember it being this bad in southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois

I thought maybe we were in a low tick zone when we first got to Northern Minnesota this year, but there was some cold weather that preceded us, and when it warmed back up, the hoard crawled out.

Another freeze tonight and hopefully it will keep them at bay. So many bad things lurking inside those pests now it makes me paranoid whenever I am bitten by one.

Oh, and don't get me started on the gnats, mosquitoes and other flying pests that come out when the weather warms. It's part of the reason why I moved my October trips to the end of the month. Maybe I should move to November...SHEESH! I guess I'll need to bring a deer rifle next year.:banghead:

My experiences in Vermont this year, both in turkey season in the spring and now grouse season, even with no appreciable frosts yet, the ticks (usually in huge numbers there) are non-existant.





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Strange, so far no ticks in the Catskills or Tughill NY. Saw just a few in lower Michigan.

People or bugs ? :rotf::rotf::rotf:

Both! They all carry a disease in one form or another.:cool:

Hunted UP of Michigan October 15-22 and it was hot and dry, the sad news is my French Brittany now has Lyme Disease. She put on a hunting clinic and found the most birds very day but now is really sick and on antibiotic. Hoping she will recover and be ready for January Quail Trip to New Mexico.

The ticks were bad up there. I had a Seresto collar on my 3 setters and would mist them with permethrin on each hunt. Thinking on getting the Lyme vaccine shots for them now. Deer ticks are bad here in Ohio and West Virginia also.
Hope your dog responds quickly .

George, had your pup received the Lyme vaccine and still got severe symptoms?

I have heard of dogs getting Lyme disease after being vaccinated, but I have never met anyone personally that had a vaccinated dog get Lyme

We’ve been vaccinating our dogs against Lymes for years. Never had issues.