Crazy ticks in November

[Bailey's Mom]

I understand that until it freezes we are at risk for ticks. However, the dogs were pretty tick free for most of the summer but all of a sudden we are finding ticks on Teddy daily. One advantage of his thick hair is it takes an energetic tick to work through his hair before we find them. However, we don't have the tick preventatives he gets. Haven't found one on Annie yet but she isn't as adventurous as Teddy.

I just find it odd we have more ticks in November than we had all summer.

 

[Sharon7]

They can be year-around here unfortunately, and even places that freeze see activity if the temp rises a bit. Dang ticks!

 

[Ann]

Here in the Northeast I think the warmer weather we've been having is our curse when it comes to ticks. We've had one good, hard frost but then it warmed up again. I can't wait for really colder weather, although even then you can see an occasional tick.

 

[Bailey's Mom]

I get that we need snow on the ground before they are likely not an issue. What I found odd was it wasn't all summer and now it is if we are having a tick revival.

 

[Sandy in CT]

Tick season, at least in CT, is April/May, June, then August and October/November. There has been no hard freeze for years here in CT. Ticks need elongated times of ice and below freezing temps to even put a small dent in their population. Humans tend to be aware of ticks in the summer, but get careless in off seasons. Ticks can be active year round and have been at least these last 2 - 3.

 

[Bailey's Mom]

I understand the concept.

What confuses me is we check the dogs as they come in with all kinds of flower debris, etc. from the yard along with the risk of ticks. So its not as if we wouldn't have been looking for ticks this spring/summer we just didn't find them. Fast forward to November and it is like what I remember as a kid before effective flea and tick treatments when we lived in an area that was highly infested and we were removing ticks that had embedded from my parents dogs nightly through the Spring, Summer, and early fall. Snow was the time we usually stopped finding them.

This spring and summer no ticks on the dogs. September/October no ticks. November is an odd time to start tick season.

 

[Sharon7]

Totally understand your puzzlement. Perhaps some deer came through and dropped ticks in your yard?

 

[Calliesmom]

Totally understand your puzzlement. Perhaps some deer came through and dropped ticks in your yard?

I've definitely been seeing more deer the last couple weeks..................

 

[KarenCurtis]

I understand that until it freezes we are at risk for ticks. However, the dogs were pretty tick free for most of the summer but all of a sudden we are finding ticks on Teddy daily. One advantage of his thick hair is it takes an energetic tick to work through his hair before we find them. However, we don't have the tick preventatives he gets. Haven't found one on Annie yet but she isn't as adventurous as Teddy.

I just find it odd we have more ticks in November than we had all summer.

I'm in Massachusetts. We had dog ticks over the summer but no deer ticks. Now we have a ton of deer ticks, which concern me more. I give both of my dogs Credelio which works really well. I find lots of live ticks on them, but they never bite, so no blown up gross ticks anywhere on my dogs.

 

[Bailey's Mom]

Totally understand your puzzlement. Perhaps some deer came through and dropped ticks in your yard?

They would have had to take out the fence. Could have been another critter. We do get nocturnal ones and we have bunnies everywhere.

The tick stuff we are using is working as Karen said we are finding live ones but they aren't biting the dogs. It was a good heads up finding them on the dogs as I know I'm good about checking the dogs for debris and ticks I don't always remember to check me for ticks. It has reminded me to check humans for ticks now as well since the season seems to be a bit wild.