I’m Sexy and I know it!
That’s right! I know it because I’m a TICK magnet!
I’ve had 3 tick bites so far this Spring. They FREAK me out!
Wes and Madison haven’t had ONE tick bite and they’ve been doing a lot of BushWacking (because we’ve gotten into GeoCaching). Not one on either of them.
I’m not complaining, don’t get me wrong. I’m SUPER glad neither of them have had one.
I just don’t understand what it is about ME that they love! Just me and Brody. We’ve found 5 ticks on Brody. Two of them had just jumped on for a ride and hadn’t sunk their fangs in yet. Friggin’ ticks!
This winter was so mild, we didn’t have enough freezing days in a row to kill them off, apparently. (According to our Vet.)
We are religious about doing Brody’s Flea and Tick treatment.
I use Tea Tree oil products on my hair once a week. I don’t wipe myself down with Deet every time I go outside. That would get old after about the 5 time each day.
Eat more onions?
Bathe in Tea Tree oil every morning?
Hang a string of garlic around my neck?
I’m seriously thinking this might be my best option!
(Found at Amazon.)
Seriously, anyone have any Tick Avoidance advice? (Other than “Don’t go outside”.) I’m kind of desperate here!
Wow…Brody is so cute. I have to be honest I don’t know what bushwacking is or geocaching are. Sounds interesting tho. My 2 dogs are generally in the back yard so we don’t have that problem…but I’m sure you’ll get a lot of suggestions. Good luck.
I wear hats and stay out of tall grass or brush, but I live on a small lot in town so that’s easy for me. I’ve been saying since December this summer is going to be awful for all bugs because winter was so mild. I’m expecting the mosquitoes to be really bad here.
Move again???
Before our neighbors were foreclosed on, we had a massive infestation of ticks because of them. I mean, we tried just about everything, toxic and not. If you are picking them up around the yard a lot, rake up as many leaves as possible. Once the house next door was bought by someone else and they cleaned up the 4 inches of leaves in their yard, the ticks disappeared, almost over night. The kids and I had to do several rounds of antibiotics because of how many tick bites we suffered.
They love me too. Ewwww! I’ve had two on me this summer. It is going to be a bad year for them. Last year Buddy ran through a tick nest (we think) and I ended up pulling 30 ticks off him. He still had a week to go before a new frontline treatment, but the vet said that I might have to up it to every 3 weeks to get through the summer.
You could spray deet products on your clothing, especially your pant cuffs. That might help.