ticks

[spartan_ferret 6]

I know ferrets can pick up ticks sometimes, mine have had them now and then. When I firsted started out I smeared them with vaseline but now I use spot-on or frontline (or whatever its called) but I'm thinking about getting one of those tick puller bars.

 

But anyway my qestion is.... has anyone got a tick on themsevles? or had or know someone who has got lymes disease?

 

thats what i'm thinking about when sticking my hand in a hole, thinking that it might come back out with a tick buried in it.

 

Would it happen? can it Happen? has it happend?

[Rake aboot 4,936]

Pretty rare

I`ve never known, or even heard of someone, secondhand that has caught it.

 

I reckon yer safe,

 

If you get a tick, you can get tested for Lymes, The important thing if you get it , is to treat it at it`s first showing, as it will vanish, then come back after a time as an uncurable version of lymes,

[the_stig 6,614]

i know a keeper who had some on his leg a few year back after a days beating --- cant remember the outcome apart from a visit to the docs and a course of anti biotics ...

[spartan_ferret 6]

I thought it was a rare case, but it's something to be aware off.

 

another qestion is...Do all ticks carry lymes or just a small amount? and can it affect a Pug?

[events co-ordinator 353]

First it is unlikely it would be Buried in your hand in such a short time if its moving about its safe to brush off. Wendy Fox from BADA you will meet her round the gamefairs she is in a wheelchair due to the catastrophic damage that tic borne diseasse can cause to your heart. Ray Mears is the patron and has also suffered tic borne disease BADA will be on the SACS stand at the Dalkeith Country Fair over the Easter weekend just outside Edinburgh. Go on the bada website for info on Lymes.

[muddy210 34]

have had ticks on me when ive been out on the hills after dear in the long grass but never had one attach luckily on some of my ground they are rife so i allways have a good check afterwards touch wood none have been attached yet thankfully.

[Jamie m 668]

I fell asleep in a field once pissed up in the summer one year , : ) anyhow a few days later I felt a large spot on my back I went and looked in the mirror and saw the legs moving I nearly passed out lol , just about pulled it off : ( went the docs had a hole there for ages gross hate the bloody things