Ticks are amazingly efficient at surviving almost any attack. The rate of propagation and resistance to insecticides is phenomenal to say the least. In heated kennels and homes, ticks breed all year round. When the weather is cold, they’ll withdraw to cracks and crevices to await warmer times. Since it takes twenty to thirty days [...]

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Once on a dog, a female tick buries her head beneath the skin tissues, extends her barbed “tongue” and is then clamped on tight. Once the head and barbed probe are beneath the skin, no amount of shaking or scratching by the dog will cause the tick to dislodge. The tick then feasts upon the [...]

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Each year as the warm weather approaches, dog owners should be increasingly apprehensive about the gluttonous, disease-carrying Rhipicephalus Sanquineus, better known as the tick. This dangerous creature can infect man with Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, cause paralysis, and even kill dogs and puppies. These parasites are blamed for carrying the micro-organism that caused the death of [...]

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