Travelling abroad with your dog

[guerdeval]

Can I remind everyone who is planning a trip with their dog to PLEASE ensure you frontline them and check for ticks after every walk. We are sticklers on treatments for fleas/ticks etc but nevertheless this week we lost our Spaniel to a simple tick bite which carried a deadly virus. Despite the best efforts of our vet she died within 3 days of looking off colour. Ticks are everywhere, even here in Brittany and are even found in every park in London so please be vigilant wherever you travel.

 

[Belgian]

Can I remind everyone who is planning a trip with their dog to PLEASE ensure you frontline them and check for ticks after every walk. We are sticklers on treatments for fleas/ticks etc but nevertheless this week we lost our Spaniel to a simple tick bite which carried a deadly virus. Despite the best efforts of our vet she died within 3 days of looking off colour. Ticks are everywhere, even here in Brittany and are even found in every park in London so please be vigilant wherever you travel.

Sorry to hear that your dog died.
In my opinion ticks are everywhere now and aboundant. 50 yrs ago we went camping while scouting and never heard or had one tick; now they are dropping off the trees and they carry diseases. Why ?

 

[BedfordMJ]

So sorry to hear that. I do use Frontline on my Dog but did find a tick on him last year. I think it was my dad tha told me to burn them off with a cigarette lighter so that is what I did. I was surpised at the size it had got.
Thanks for the warning.

 

[walkers]

thanks for the warning, we are off to spain in august via france. we have scalibor collars for the dogs these are supposed to protect from fleas ticks and mozzies
does anyone know if they are effective?

 

[Belgian]

ticks

It appears Frontline is not that efective it should be. Last year our vet prescribed Advantix. These are small tubes to be applied between the shoulderblades of the dog (the only place dog can't reach). Also effective for flees and other insects. And yes, ticks where there but they fell off before they could attach themselves. It should not be used by cats.
Ticks can also effect humans (mostly the thinner skin between the legs, or shaven armpits) and could be transferring the Lyme-illness.
http://www.articleclick.com/Article/Complete-Information-on-Borreliosis/994776
Beware when extracting ticks; they spit their poison in the wound when squeesed. A good method is a tickremover (Tickoff I think). It is an ampulla of gas freezing the tick before extraction.
Don't get a tick of it

 

[sagart]

Might be best to check with your Vet. My daughter used to be at a practice in Hampshire (now at a vet's practice in Oregon)...she mentioned that they were seeing problems 4 years ago with new "ticks" in the loosest sense, being seen in the Uk. having begun to spread across the Channel.
Equally that their were parasites on the Continent which were not customary in the UK. and for which treatment could be very difficult.
Ticks are the least of the problems..

Also see
http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/quarantine/factsheet/eufactsheet3_050907.pdf
http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/quarantine/factsheet/euvetfactsheet2.pdf
http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/quarantine/factsheet/eufactsheet3_050907.pdf

 

[Belgian]

Ticks again

Coincidently flemish tele gave a warning about ticks this afternoon.
Due to soft winters these are spreading. Not yet a plague but ...?
Moreover 10% of the ticks could transfer Lyme-disease. Causing partly paralysations and/or hypersensivity. It seems difficult to cure.
They warn especially children playing in woods or in brushes and avoid shorts and open shoes.
I guess this is not only the case in Flanders but also in a big part of the continent.
I reccon it could also be caused by the general ban on pesticides the last years
So be vigilant if you cross to this side.