Ticks and fleas

[SoulRaven]

I tried desperately to use the natural repellants for years. I did not find anything that would work on my dogs. Last year is the first year that we had any luck with controlling them on the pets, we use PetAmourPlus from Wal-Mart and the best for the house/RV that I could suggest that gave us success is the Enforcer brand powders and/or sprays: https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_...EESI4WO&rh=n:2619533011,k:enforcer+flea+spray I also used these which did help and let me know when and where the problem was intense: https://www.amazon.com/SpringStar-E...TF8&qid=1496405739&sr=1-4&keywords=flea+traps The traps also catch no see-ums, other gnats, some other crawly things. I do not like using these products, but nothing else worked. We live in a humid environment. In AZ, we had NO problem with fleas, I should have brought home a couple of lizards!

 

[highdesertranger]

fleas do not like the desert. the best way to get rid of fleas is to move to the desert, no chemicals needed. highdesertranger

 

[Gardenias]

After reading Every Road Leads Home's response, I'm going to experiment with the natural preparations first.

Natural tick repellent for humans
http://www.brighthub.com/environment/green-living/articles/60192.aspx
http://www.healthextremist.com/natural-homemade-tick-repellent-spray/

Natural Tick repellent for dogs and humans.
http://www.primallyinspired.com/easy-natural-tick-repellent-that-really-works-essential-oils/#

DIY natural flea & tick spray for cats
http://www.thehippyhomemaker.com/diy-flea-tick-spray-cats/

DIY natural flea, tick, mosquito repellent sprays, rubs, dips, rinse for dogs and cats.
http://ottawavalleydogwhisperer.blogspot.com/2013/05/diy-natural-herbal-homeopathic-flea_18.html

 

[gcal]

Have any of you nomadic pet lovers ever had a problem with ticks or fleas getting in your vehicle?

Yes. The last couple mild winters around Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama have sent ticks on a reproductive orgy. Can't keeo them off pets ir kids, or oug of rv's. Keep your fingers crossed for a cold winter this year.

 

[lenny flank]

Pets, hell---last week I picked three of the damn bloodsuckers off of **ME** after taking a walk around the Mine Creek battlefield.

As a longtime environmentalist I love all living things--but I can't honestly say I'd shed many tears if ticks all suddenly went extinct.......

Ugh.

 

[SoulRaven]

We have been back in KS now for 10 years and no family member which includes the two large dogs have had a tick. Has me wondering why. Maybe something here eats considers them a delicacy.

 

[NaturePhreak]

I live in the woods where we have lots of ticks in the summer. I recently switched to Bravacto and it has made a huge difference. I used to spend lots of time pulling off dead or dying ticks off my pup. Now, he rarely has a tick on him and, if he does have one, it is always dead! Kind of expensive but worth every penny. No more ticks in the house.

 

[Gardenias]

This includes a map of the tick risk areas in the US as of 2013.
http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=10461

Tick predators
https://www.quora.com/Parasites-What-are-the-natural-enemies-of-ticks-birds-and-bugs

 

[AbuelaLoca]

We have been back in KS now for 10 years and no family member which includes the two large dogs have had a tick.  Has me wondering why.  Maybe something here eats considers them a delicacy.

I know guinea are great for keeping yards free of ticks! I imagine other "insect" eating birds also enjoy the thin, crusty tick  :-/

 

[Cammalu]

Maybe something here eats considers them a delicacy.

Fry them up with a little butter and sugar and you'll probably never notice the tiny legs.

 

[rvpopeye]

But , how do you get them to jump into the frypan ?

 

[Cammalu]

Give them a little shove with a hot match


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[gcal]

We just came from an area where ticks were a plague. Dog has Lyme disease "bull's eye." We will be seeing the vet for antibiotics and a vaccination. There used to be an effective, safe vaccine for humans in the '90's, too, until the conspiracy wackos and their lawyers drove it out of production. Now, Lyme disease is virtually epidemic in some areas.

 

[gcal]

4x4, for goodness sake, why do you think vinegar is harmful?<div><br></div><div>Fwiw, advangate, frontline, etc are neurotoxins that kill many pets every year. &nbsp;Just ask google.</div><div><br></div><div>Imladris I held off fleas and ticks for years of travel with lots of garlic consumption and a little caution and common sense. &nbsp;I ran out of garlic in northern cali while the van was broken and came out of it with a huge tick infestation (I know exactly how it started - I was asleep and picked a tick off my dog in bed, thinking it was mud, and dropped it down behind the bed, and then followed much more sleep scratching and dropping of bugs. &nbsp;Woops.). &nbsp;It was a pain in the ass, but a complete dusting and laundering of everything and everyone in the van with diatamaceous earth took care of things.</div>

Google - the research resource of the gods.

 

[lenny flank]

Google - the research resource of the gods.

Alas, i wish that were true. Sadly, any schmuck can put up a website or blog with any cockamamie crapola that he wants to believe, and reach more people with it than a best-selling author could just a few decades ago. That's why nearly all of the "information" one gets from Google University is... well... pig-ignorant crap. And sadly most people don't have enough critical thinking skill to tell the difference between the reliable stuff and the crap--so they believe the crap.

I concluded long ago that the Internet actually makes our society dumber.

 

[steamjam1]

Not yet, but I use First Shield. You can pick it up at any Petsmart/Banfield location. It protects against fleas, ticks, and mosquito's. It costs less than $15 per vial and the treatment lasts a month.

I do the same. Two dogs on first shield. I sometimes find ticks on their fur when I inspect them every day or two, buy they never bite. I pick them off and throw them out the door of my van. I don't kill the ticks. Its not their fault. They are just trying to live just like the rest of us. I've never had a flea/tick problem in my van/RV.

 

[JannaB]

I keep alcohol in a spray bottle for squitos and flies. For creepy crawlers I buy cedar oil and dilute it 10% cedar oil and 90% alcohol.  I spray both of these on my pets and me and all over my cargo trailer.  We have been under control for 3 years and smell great!
Home depot sell pints of cedar oil for about $20.  This lasts a longgggg time.  Good luck

 

[Gardenias]

I found this helpful site.
TickEncounter Resource Center

 

[Optimistic Paranoid]

Article in today's New York Post about how this is going to be the worst tick season in years, thanks to:

"tick populations are slated to be the highest in years due to a wet winter two years ago, which offered ample acorns for the Lyme-disease-carrying mice that ticks feed on."

http://nypost.com/2017/06/26/why-you-should-really-be-scared-of-ticks-this-summer/