Tick magnet!

[AquarianDragon]

Thanks for tips guys, rubbin balls with cream in the wee small hours sounds fun, but not in these circumstances
I spoke to my vet who said this is the worst plague of ticks he's seen in 20 years, and they're run off their feet giving antiserum. His advice was to give the Frontline every 12 days and keep vigilant with the daily checks.

Thanks Blue, I did mention garlic to him once before and he said while it has some effect with fleas, it won't work for ticks here. I think the sub tropical climate is the issue.
I used to use garlic years ago for fleas, and still remember the dog farts! lol
I'm not knocking garlic though. A few months ago I had an gum abscess above my canine tooth (no pun intended). I consulted “dr.google” and found a cure with garlic...I rubbed a cut clove over it and in ½ hour pain was gone and it drained! Its medicinal use is much underrated.

As for the worms, I keep him on Interceptor, once a month, which takes care of all those nasties.

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Bush ticks are horrible...Paralysis ticks are just plain nasty.

In autumn I have a big cut back of shrubs, and this year I got covered with grass ticks. I started off bare chested on an 8ft ladder leaning over shrubs with long handled cutters, and I had a patch of 30 of them in one armpit!Little buggers the size of a poppyseed. I soon covered up, but got heaps more. After some research I now think they were the lava of the shell backs that I'm getting now!
I enjoyed seeing your fish and dog. He reminded me of my last dog, who made it to 17 despite going deaf and blind towards the end. If you search You Tube with “gruntled4”, there's a garden video clip which shows my guy as a youngster, 4 years ago and my garden fish. He's now like a huge woolly mammoth and the garden is more of a jungle!