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  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    First tick bite of the year last night >:)  My usual gardening clothes have been soaked in insecticide so I have escaped up till now but I had just nipped out in shorts and bare feet to get some strawberries and picked up my unwelcome passenger. Now for a summer of paranoia, I really don't want a repeat of the last few years as my running total is now over 200 ticks.

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Our cats and dogs get a regular flea and tick treatment to keep them clean @steephill.   You'd think it would be possible to make one for hoomans too.
    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
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2023
    My understanding is that those tick treatments contain stuff that may have neurological effects … a bit like the stuff they used to put in sheep dip … I may be wrong of course but don’t think I’d want to take any 🤯

    Its advised not to allow dogs who’ve had topical flea and tick treatments applied to swim in rivers and lakes. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    The stuff we use is oral, not topical.   No side effects so far and they've been on them a while now.   Definitely don't want them getting complications from tick bites or all the scratchies from fleas.
    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
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I know … it’s a tricky one .., the stuff I was reading about a while back was an oral one …
    https://bmcvetres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12917-019-2016-4

    Glad I don’t have to make that decision nowadays. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Life is full of balancing acts.  The cats get a  topical version.  They just about accept their worming tablets being bunged down their throats but it's a fine line.
    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
    My dog died soon and quickly after I used topical flea drops. They're a systemic insecticide. I don't even use them on plants.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    My OH puts  his ‘oddness’ down to sheep dip. 😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    Allotment Boy said:
    As some of you know we have been away,  the family have been watering for us and have done a fairly good job.  I heard about a rainstorm on Monday so hoped the waterbuts might be replenished.  Are they ? of course not,  the diverter was absolutely blocked with moss so not a drop in either butt. 😡
    It just goes to show that you need to check your butt often, @Allotment Boy
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    sage advice
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
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