Ticks

I've mentioned how we have dealt with roaches in previous posts; now there is a new a new critter in town that we are dealing with: ticks! Warning: this post may make your skin tingle and crawl.

When we moved we were told to check our dogs regularly for ticks since they are everywhere here. We took the advice with a grain of salt since after regularly checking the dogs every other day for three months we didn't find one on either dog. After losing the habit of checking regularly ticks have now decided to make their appearance on the dogs and in our house. When I first saw the ticks in our house I was worried we were having an infestation-sort of like when you see flees. After consulting with our landlord ticks here are just something you have to learn to live with and kill when you see them.

I've never dealt with ticks but here are some things I have observed: they do not die when you iron them or put clothes in the dryer. They are good swimmers (as experienced when you put them in the toilet) and crawl fast. Finally, they blend in really well with black patches of fur. We did a quick run over of both dogs and found multiple ticks on them.

I feel bad for the dogs since they even have one tick on them but they are also kind of unavoidable down here. Luckily we are trying our best to prevent any from biting the dogs. If only we could prevent them from coming in the house!