Tick season is here in Vermont! For the second time in 3 days after being out with the dogs in the AM, I sad down the sofa with my laptop and there was a tick crawling across my keyboard and screen.

This is actually a ‘dog tick’, which does not carry Lyme disease, but does transit other nasties. No tick is safe!

Bravecto is an effective anti-tick treatment, an oral dose lasts 12 weeks. And all the dogs are vaccinated for Lyme disease. That does not stop them getting tick-borne anaplasmosis, which all my older generations have had, and which led to the death of poor Bryn, after he contracted it for a second time. It supercharged is genetic arthritis.

I use the same 4DX snap test to test that veterinarians use for tick and heart worm testing.