This is the only snow left in my yard. I think spring is really here. But there is a but in this.
This is looking north up my driveway. See all the trees? Abby likes to go and explore them.
Oh, my bad. There is that one little patch of snow on the right hand side. You see it? It's a real small patch.
This all looks nice and good and I'm happy about it all. Truly I am. But...............there is a bad side to all this. All this? It means that my sweet lovable Abby will be bringing this too me. Sorry I know it's ugly. I hope that you don't get the hebie jebies over this
Frontline, or the like. Abby doesn't need those kind of friends.
ReplyDeleteI just discovered a couple months ago that Freya has flea bite dermatitis. A nice way of saying she has a flea allergy. But guess what else? She also has an allergy to topical flea meds like Frontline and Advantix. Worse, the internal, systemic ones are ivermectin based, which is deadly to collies (she's a collie mix). What's a poor pup to do?
ReplyDeleteI put her on frontline last year and she did real well on it. I found a tick on her this eve! I thought that I would have another month but I'm going to start her this weekend.
ReplyDeleteOS all I can say is move back to AK where there are not ticks and fleas are easy to control
A tick already! Cripes, I hate those little buggers. I suppose I'll have to get some frontline started too. I wish they had some product like that for humans.
ReplyDeleteNo fleas farther north than Juneau last I knew, which was about 3 years ago.
ReplyDeleteCan't move back though. The Husband's job is here and it's too good to give up. And Doodle, my stepdaughter is here. I can't ask him to leave her. And I've been told that Freya would probably die without me, so sending her up to a rescue doesn't work either. Seriously, she doesn't eat so boarding her is very hard. A lot of people have commented on this about her.
PS- Having grown up here in the PNW, I've never seen a tick in my life. Thanks for the photo!
just so you know, that was a well feed tick, that is dead. Thats a pic I took last year.
ReplyDeleteThe problem with ticks in March...they are so small that their bodies are almost transparent.
ReplyDeleteWhen our kids were really small, we found a tick on Becca in early spring and it's body was almost clear. We found it by using a magnifying glass! Now I know why so many people come down with Lyme's disease.
Keep checking Abby for ticks.
All I can say is at this moment I'm glad I live in AK. Sure we have lots of mosquitos in the summer, but no ticks. Leaches. spiders. Ants. But no ticks.
ReplyDeleteAmen Patty, and NO SNAKES!!!
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