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I just got back from 5 days in the bush. (Eastern Ontario)

My buddy is in Lanark county near Perth and has been having a hell of a time with ticks, to the point where they're almost an epidemic. (The government doesn't seem to want to acknowledge Lyme disease as a threat, unlike the USA)

Low and behold, I had a traveller on me when I checked. He was into a pretty good meal based on his size.

North American Deer Tick. I took the specimen for testing and my doc prescribed me the kill-all antibiotics.

Anyone else have tick issues in their areas?
 
My camp is just west of you off 62. Havent had any issues the past 2 years, havent seen any on us or the dogs. Might be too wet around us, lots of marsh.
 
Yes, hunt in 67.

Spring Turkey was horrible for ticks - pick four or five off each outing.

Seemed to die back a bit by late summer, but still was getting a tick every second or third time out.

Then again during the gun hunt/deer - was warm the first week and picked up a tick (small enough that looked like a recent hatch).

Usually get the odd one here and there in an average year, this year was pretty bad...
 
I hear about this all the time.

Here in the KW area I'm out with my hounds twice a day in the field, not a single tick in years. My inlaws down in Niagara, every week they are having issues with ticks. I'm lucky I guess. I would hate to have to deal with that kind of nuisance. Maybe its all the round up here on the crops keeping them away.
 
Down in Haldimand / along lake Erie they are terrible. (specifically around turkey point)
I probably pull 1-2 dozen off my dogs each time we are in the bush. Usually still walking around and not feeding.

Had a wondering tick on me last night, not feeding. It really creeps my wife out.
 
My son picked up one last year gallivanting in the field behind our house in Winchester. Plucked him out and took him to the doctor. They sent it off to Manitoba to confirm it was a deer tick and no Lyme. North of the St Lawrence the doctor said they don't automatically prescribe antibiotics for tick bites. They wait for the rash. Mind you my dog had Lyme disease and she is never in the long grass, just in my wife's little backyard forest.

However give it time and they will start going the route of the northern states doctors and just automatically prescribing. Heck Avril Levine got Lyme.
 
NOT JUST THE NORTH. I'm in the heart of Darkness here in SCARBOROUGH and some local parks have identified ticks there. Of which 50% tested positive for Lyme disease.

It's serious ####. Me aunt got bit this spring. Tested positive for LD and was treated right away. It can literally be crippling!

If you get bit, at all costs attempt to save the tick and get it tested. This can be instrumental in your treatment.

Cheers
 
Beermaker said:
My son picked up one last year gallivanting in the field behind our house in Winchester. Plucked him out and took him to the doctor. They sent it off to Manitoba to confirm it was a deer tick and no Lyme. North of the St Lawrence the doctor said they don't automatically prescribe antibiotics for tick bites. They wait for the rash. Mind you my dog had Lyme disease and she is never in the long grass, just in my wife's little backyard forest.

However give it time and they will start going the route of the northern states doctors and just automatically prescribing. Heck Avril Levine got Lyme.
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I'm in Vernon up the road from you. I think the one I picked up was in Lanark at a buddy's place just the other side of Perth. He's having a hell of a time with them this year. The dogs get them constantly, he's had them and one of his daughters got diagnosed with Lyme disease from a tick.

I just called my doctor and she prescribed the antibiotic on the phone.
 
I found a black legged deer tick nymph on my arm - looked like a small black fly bite scab - had to look at it under a field microscope to identify it. It was dead and had not engorged itself when I plucked it off. I sent it to the local public health branch and after about 11 weeks, told me it was negative for lyme and other stuff they test for. These little bastards are small, so be careful.
 
Barrie area through to parry sound to gravenhurst ive been pulling 3 to 4 off of my old man's and my 2 bird dogs a year easily now for about 5 years before that maybe the occasional one. Most of them are dead allready from the products we use on them. I unfortunately ended up getting one on me that had not been on long just this fall (Oct 31). It was a dog tick and i didn't have any reaction to it as of yet, it was fully extracted and as I expected couldn't feel a thing. Just the other day coming back from the bush I picked one off the top of my old man's dogs head, was crawling up over the top between her ears looking for a good meal spot. Tough little picks to kill too. Dress tight and check yourself thoroughly.
 
They are bad in Coboconk area, used to have lots on me & the dogs almost everyday. I never saw or got a Deer tic, they were all American Brown Dog tics & don't carry Lyme decease, Lots of areas are infested, but non LD carriers. Moved more North in the summer, & havent seen one.
 
I am in wmu76 just north of Barrie. I have had a few on the dog in the last couple of years and my wife had one on her this spring. It was sent off and was negative for lyme. There were some positive ones in the Pentang area last year.
 
One of the myths of Lyme disease is you have to have the bullseye rash to know you got Lyme. Most folks never get the rash. I never did. Lyme is life changing and even if you get it treated right away with 6-7 months of antibiotics you will still have permanent damage. I have never seen a tick on me but one got me, I figure in deer season in Grey County.
Lyme seems to be present through out the Provence, even in Thunder Bay area.
 
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