They're back. (Okay read that like Jack Nicholson in The Shining..in that really creepy way he says “I'm back”). That's how I feel about ticks and now they're back. Two have shown up on the dogs so far...although they were discovered before they could attach themselves. I hate ticks. It's nothing personal but they carry borrelia burgdorferi, anaplasmosis, bartonella, babesia and a variety of other bacteria that have made both me and my animals very ill in the last several years. I know of at … [Read more...]