RE: Ticks and other nasties was Your Breeder - Your Friend

2003-03-18 Thread Rose Tierney
Hi Michaela, I think I may have just been lucky but I recall the time at the US Nationals at Rhode Island where it seemed a lot of people were picking ticks off their dogs. I had bathed my dogs prior to travelling with Kennel Flea and Louse Shampoo and while I always rinse thoroughly some residual

Re: Ticks and other nasties was Your Breeder - Your Friend

2003-03-17 Thread Michaela Simmons
Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 5:16 PM Subject: Re: Ticks and other nasties was Your Breeder - Your Friend Here in Sweden we have Frontline, which can be purchased over the counter at the pharmacists and Ex-Spot, which is only dispensed with a vet prescription.

Ang: Re: Ticks and other nasties was Your Breeder - Your Friend

2003-03-17 Thread margareta . strand
Hi, Yes we have both Frontline and Exspot in Sweden but I think both means to much poison. There are also other methods with garlic and showers with tyme and lemon. Are there other methods without these poisoning ways against ticks? Margareta Strand and Vincent Stockholm

Re: Ticks and other nasties was Your Breeder - Your Friend

2003-03-17 Thread Cecilia Ståhl
Here in Sweden we have Frontline, which can be purchased over the counter at the pharmacists and Ex-Spot, which is only dispensed with a vet prescription. Although I was very pleased with the results of Ex-Spot, I decided to try the Frontline last summer on Griffin. It was absolutely without effect

Re: Ticks and other nasties was Your Breeder - Your Friend

2003-03-17 Thread Michaela Simmons
Marion I'm the tick queen of the Western world. Sadly. Because of where we live - Moorland, bracken, sheep - my dogs are veritable tick magnets. Plus, this part of England never really gets cold enough to kill off ticks, thus I begrudgingly pull off ticks all year round. I tried a variety of natur

Re: Ticks and other nasties was Your Breeder - Your Friend

2003-03-16 Thread Deb Tripp
Hi Marion: I'm from Canada :-)...not the US. I'm really lucky that we don't have a lot of nasty bugs in our country and I think it may be largely due to the cold, cold winters - helps keep those things under control. So, because I don't have a very big problem where I live, I don't have to use an

Ticks and other nasties was Your Breeder - Your Friend

2003-03-16 Thread Marion Brown
Dear Deb Just to pick up on something you say about not giving toxic chemicals. This is the route I go as well but last weekend one of my girls, Emily, was obviously not well and when I checked her I found a large "wound" in her side. I suspected a bont tick (don't know whether you would recognise