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Heard for a several years how we now have ticks in our area.
Found 1 on the Golden about 5 years ago, none since.
Until tonite, the 4 yo had 1 in her hair, another found on the kitchen rug. Not good. Going to mean a big lfestyle change for everyone.

Ed

I see your from Michigan. I would have thought ticks would be common everywhere. There's not many places in MN they don't reside except for downtown in the cities.

They came here maybe 10 years ago? Only found 1-2 the first few years they showed up. Keeps getting worse each year.  :( 

I hear Ivermectin is actually pretty effective against ticks, at least in dogs. Many of the local farmers give their dogs a squirt as they are dosing their sheep / cattle. But they are buying it by the litre to dose 100s of cows. A 1/4 dose on the dog is only .50 cents. Might need a dose every month or 2 during the season, but it takes out fleas and worms as well. 

Ticks have been common in the southern part of the state, now movinvg north.

Ed

My dog was picking them up bad in the Spring and than they would crawl on me.  I found I could spray him with Sawyer permethyrin about every six weeks in tick season and he won't get them.