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Do you have ticks in your garden?

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    From my experience, you need to be concerned about yourselves as much as your pets.
    Even if you don't have pets, ticks can be brought into your garden by foxes and cats.
    I think we should assume that yes - your garden has ticks.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Nollie, I hear tiger mozis can carry dengue fever. In Europe? Wow. I had dengue and it's a deeply unpleasant thing. Knocked out for months. Errk
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    I'm not sure I'd know a tick if I saw one. I keep being bitten but I don't know what's doing it. And this thread is making me paranoid. I don't generally do paranoia.
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    No need for paranoia LG.   Mozzies, midgies, horse flies etc bite and fly and leave you with an itchy bump depending on how sensitive you are.

    Ticks bite and hang on and can cause illness - https://www.medicinenet.com/ticks/article.htm#tick_facts 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I get bitten all the time by anything with an appetite. I'm very tasty.
    I just watch out for the bullseye rash.
    If you get it it's two weeks of strong no drinking alcohol antibiotics
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • dancindufasdancindufas Posts: 60
    Yip a couple of years ago when cutting back fearns in my garden one attached itself to me ! Had to keep it all day until my sister cam home (she had a removal tool) and she said it was the biggest one she'd ever seen ! I'm central Scotland. Dr wasnt concerned when i raised it with her as i didnt have the rash.

  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    @Obelixx, I'm concerned that you're taking Bravecto.  The internet strongly suggests it's carcinogenic.  Animal medicines aren't tested on humans, but its active ingredient is in the same family as known carcinogens... 
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Lyme’s and Dengue both horrible, you poor things that have suffered. Yes, Fire, Tiger Mozzies have been spreading in Spain and if your weather keeps getting hotter doubtless we shall be exporting the blighters to you anytime soon...
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Apparently it's already in Kent.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I'm not Liri.  The dogs get it but not all year.  Just from about Easter to the end of summer.  I shall talk to the vets about it when they go for their annual jabs next month.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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