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!
Are tics one of the things a Bounce sheet in your pocket repels? I don’t know, but this might be helpful: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:22786
20 acres would be pretty expensive to cover in gravel. lol I used to shake in fear when I found one but with so many around now I’ve conquered my fear out of necessity. It has gotten so bad with the outdoor dogs that we now just use an empty container with alchohol in it or gas and dump them in as we pluck them off. We use Melaluca shampoo regularly which helps but doesn’t stop the little pests. They are so gross.
Oh Lordy! I’m in Alaska (no ticks here yeah!) but moving to WNC next year, and when I visited there had a tick each time and I wasnt even out in the woods! They creep me out so much! Deet may be my new best friend or I won’t go outside at all! Check out the CDCs link on ticks, I did yesterday. One thing it said was to put a defensible space of a gravel walk around your lawn to keep ticks out. Really?!! Hate the cold but hey if it knocks’em dead in the winter, bring on the cold weather next winter! It at least won’t be the -40 as it is here in the winter!
Good Lord , I’d put in a gravel yard if I found that many each day. Seriously? That is a lot of ticks. I guess you get used to it after so long. This is the first season that I’ve ever seen a tick up close and personal so it’s difficult for me to get a handle on it. All in good time, I suppose. But 75-125! I don’t think I could ever get a handle on that many.
I haven’t had to remove one yet. I’m not sure what is worse, getting them or removing them. I guess if Wes ever does get one then I’ll find out. Crossing my fingers I’ll never see the day…
We haven’t done the virtual caches. Madison ignores them because she likes the tangible reward of finding it. Even if there’s no “prize” inside. We took one excursion where we found a cashe and didn’t realize until later that you could take a picture in front of a certain sign for another. The “excursion” made me so motion sick we had to stop 4 times in 11 miles. Definitely not going back to take a picture in front of the “Tail of the Dragon” sign. That road is made for “hogs”.