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Sorry, not so..I did a little digging and came up with this:

Interesting Pete, it is used on some of the collies here in Idaho. We have a large population of border collies for chasing cows. I'll check with my local vet (who will tell me I'm all wet!)

LD

Didn't know about the reaction with the collies Pete. Interesting. The bases down south don't use ivermectin its only my base in Darwin. Down south they use Frontline (a top spot type treatemnt already mentioned)and thats in an area with paralysis ticks and a dip called asuntol.

I have recently got back from a trip to SA.
Over there ticks are a real problem. Much smaller then those we find here, but , as carriers of sleeping sickness, much more dangerous to be around.

Our hosts, every morning, coated themselves in a generous layer of an aerosol called BAYTICOL.

We were advised not to use it and so stick with citronella oil.

No problem, but the ticks still came along with the citronella .

As the ticks were the size of pin heads, and I was worried the way the PH reacted if he thought he had one on him, I decided to use the BAYTICOL one trip.

It sure did work. Nothing even came close. Either flying , crawling or biting. Nothing.

When I got back to Blighty, I decided to look the stuff up and see if I could get it over here. One entry on the net told me why we could not find this stuff in the UK.

It had enough BIO warnings with it to rival Agent Orange or DDT.!!!

Still, no side effects just yet.

But I do appear to be growing a third leg...........

The latest on Invermectin in Collies

I stand corrected. Just another reason to have German Shorthair Pointer dogs.

LD

Asuntol was the same as BAYTICOL. Very nastie stuff. We had to wear gloves, overalls and face sheilds when we dipped the dogs. They have changed the formular now so I've been told.

Our procedures when we go out bush is to dip the dogs before we went. Then use frontline out there (plus daily inspections) then dip them first thing when we got back. In Timor we were dipping dogs weekly with Asuntol and frontline every fortnight. The dogs were also on Doxycycline.

Bakes, did you ever stroke those dosed up and treated dogs without fingers falling off? I think they are the most extreme measures, but necessary, I have ever heard of.

Back in the Highlands, where things are not so extreme, frontline was my preventative measure of choice for years, and worked well. Then my wife read something about Marmite, Vegemite I think they call it in Oz, having tick repellant properties. Since then the dogs have had a spoonfull of Marmite diluted in hot water and mixed with their food every day and it seems to work. So much so they have been off frontline for several years. They are out in a habitat shared with deer etc everyday and I have to report that I have had more ticks than my dogs this year, maybe because I don't like Marmite. They still get the odd one, but they did with frontline anyway.

Now I am wondering, dipping them in a Marmite solution mmmmmmmmmmm?

John

JAYB, in Timor we had to follow the Australian Quarantine service protocols so we could get the dogs back home. If our dogs came into contact with a local dog then it was a death sentence as well. Timor is a rabies area and a few of the grunts found out the hard way when they got bitten by dogs and had to have the rabies needles.

We used to use garlic in Tindal for fleas but it never really did anything, I don't think. Marmite is a beef extract, Vegemite is a yeast extract with loads of vitamin B. I have heard vit B repells mozzies, maybe it has some effect on ticks?

Guys - I have been busting around tick and flee protection for years. I tried 5 different collars and none worked untill I found Bayer Kiltix. I have been using it for ten years now and it works. 1 collar covers the whole season and dogs didn't catch a single tick since.



Even more - looks like the stuff from the collar gets on the trousers and boots so I rarely catch a tick myself.

While most of the talk inNE America is about deer ticks and lyme disease there are others.There have been seven recent cases of Rocky Mtn spotted fever in PA which is carried by the larger dog tick and lone star tick !!..They are saying here now that a deer tick has to feed on you for 36 hours to transmit lyme disease .