I have learned the hard way that keeping ticks off your dog is an important step in keeping ticks off you and your family, too.īecause ticks can be tiny and easy to miss - deer ticks that carry Lyme disease are often as small as poppy seeds - regular tick checks are essential, especially if you take your dog hiking, play with them in areas with a lot of tall grass, or live in the prime tick country of the Northeast. And just because a tick starts off on your dog doesn’t mean it won’t end up catching a ride into your living room and burrowing its way into your thigh while you watch Love Is Blind on the couch. If unprotected, dogs can contract lots of nasty illnesses from ticks, including Lyme disease, canine ehrlichiosis, canine anaplasmosis, canine babesiosis, and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. But now it can be tick season year-round, thanks to warmer winters and growing populations of the deer, mice, and other creatures that ticks love to bury their Lyme-disease-carrying heads in.
Tick season used to be a spring and summer thing depending on where you live, you’d typically get a break come late fall, with cold weather killing off a lot of them.
Spectra 10 with lyme skin#
If you’ve ever had to remove a fully engorged tick from the folds of skin behind your dog’s ear, you know that keeping the tiny pests at bay is a battle, even in the best of times.
Best combination tick and heartworm prevention.
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