Tick bite abscess

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paula morgan — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:25:10 GMT

My 2 border terriers are Scamp & Sky and I looooooooooooooove them to bits x

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Sarah Cahill — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:00:49 GMT

[quote user="Nick Shackleton"]

I'm looking forward to the 22nd!!! My birthday meal out!!! trust me to pick the msot expensive veggie restaurant!!!

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You have good taste! I love it! I even love how they put strawberries and fun things in the water! Mmmmm, i'm such a pie!!!

Enjoy Edinboro!!

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Nick Shackleton — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:09:55 GMT

I'm looking forward to the 22nd!!! My birthday meal out!!! trust me to pick the msot expensive veggie restaurant!!!

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Sarah Cahill — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:05:30 GMT

Yes he is!!! For all the wrong reasons!!!

Nick - I'm going to David Banns on Sunday!!! Excitement squared!!!!

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Emily Hibbs — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:11:12 GMT

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All amazing names!!! If I get a new pet I'll be asking for your name ideas!!!!

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Roger's a legend though!!!!!!

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Sarah Cahill — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:54:16 GMT

All amazing names!!! If I get a new pet I'll be asking for your name ideas!!!!

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Kim Buckley — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:50:34 GMT

My god I want a border terrier so badly! I've got a fake one who is 3/4 border 1/4 cocker spaniel! lol I want a girl called Maude or a boy caller Arthur! They are the best dogs ever!!!

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Beth Roberts — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:20:32 GMT

[quote user="Sarah Dryden"]

Aww Haggis is a brilliant name for a Border Terrier!! Love it!

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Just waiting until she has puppies and I can call them Neeps and Tatties (I also have an epileptic cat called Topple...)

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Sarah Cahill — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:18:49 GMT

Yeah it is quite! Sainsburys has the best range of Quorn that I can find, I am currently enjoying Tescos new range of fake quorn though!

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Nick Shackleton — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:16:59 GMT

Asda is rubbish for veggie-ness

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Sarah Cahill — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:15:02 GMT

I've actually never been in a Waitrose, the nearest one to me is Edinburgh which is like 60 miles away! There's not one in Dundee or Aberdeen!! It's Asda land here!!!!!!

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Nick Shackleton — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:13:28 GMT

[quote user="Sarah Dryden"]

Aww, it's a good name for a Westie too! I want some veggie haggis now!

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Think Waitrose sells it!

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Sarah Cahill — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:12:36 GMT

Aww, it's a good name for a Westie too! I want some veggie haggis now!

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Nick Shackleton — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:06:58 GMT

[quote user="Sarah Dryden"]

Aww Haggis is a brilliant name for a Border Terrier!! Love it!

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Better for a Westie thou! My gran had a westie called Haggis R.I.P.

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Vicky RVN — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:05:50 GMT

Jack had supposedly had Frontline spray put on him before i got him (from Dogs Trust) and still got loads of ticks!

I found a tick crawling on my finger the other day...URGH!!! Luckily not had any attach on me...yet!

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Sarah Cahill — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:02:11 GMT

Aww Haggis is a brilliant name for a Border Terrier!! Love it!

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Beth Roberts — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:59:32 GMT

Has anyone else used prac-tic? We just got a free sample at work but it was for large dogs and my little monster is only 7kg. I am about to move back to a high population tick area and have also found frontline useless in the past. Haggis is a border terrier yet the blighters still get through her coat!

On a similar theme, anyone had much luck with human treatment? I seem to get a few attached now and again too, ugh not nice!

Thanks

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Anonymous — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:34:46 GMT

Advantix is great stuff! really good feedback from the huntsmen that use it. but be very careful with it if you have cats! Very toxic to the puddy tats. :) >^..^<

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les punton — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:30:38 GMT

the merial rep told us that the spot on was useless on tick (why advertise for use of ticks on the box then), however they recommend frontline spray better. Some of our clients come from highly pop tick areas. One client uses scalibor collars - she swears by them.

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Kim Buckley — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:25:25 GMT

Touch wood neither of my dogs have never had a tick and I walk them where there are sheep. Suppose they have just been lucky!

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S-J — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:20:18 GMT

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Aww poor little guy! I use Practic for Jack and find it fab. When i first got him he'd been Frontlined...i was removing ticks on a daily basis! I now alternate between Practic and Advocate (after having a lung worm talk!) and *touch wood* no more of the little blighters!

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i was told that you cant prevent lungworm only treat it once its Dx

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Vicky RVN — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:16:02 GMT

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Sarah Cahill — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:08:38 GMT

Think I will change him to Advantix, it's the first tick any of my dogs have had and they're not that common where I live but better to be safe than sorry! I forgot to bring a buster collar home for him tonight and he's been having a good scratch at it, he's self harming!!

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Hannah25uk — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:40:37 GMT

My Dog had a reaction like this on his ear also, antibiotics didn't touch it and it took about 12 week to resolve itself.

We also find frontline useless, applied it to a tick on a cat the another day and the next thing we knew it was merrily climbing the kennel wall (the tick that is).

We don't usually recommend vaseline etc as the ticks get stressed as they suffocate and release more toxins into the animal.

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Gillian Mostyn — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:04:47 GMT

I find frontline is next to useless for ticks. Now use prac-tic which seems to be a lot better.