{"id":6037,"date":"2025-05-13T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T13:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/?p=6037"},"modified":"2025-05-13T09:21:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T13:21:20","slug":"tick-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/13\/tick-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Tick Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>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.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250513_1300223782-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250513_1300223782-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250513_1300223782-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250513_1300223782-768x961.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250513_1300223782-1228x1536.jpg 1228w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250513_1300223782-1637x2048.jpg 1637w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250513_1300223782-1568x1961.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/PXL_20250513_1300223782.jpg 1958w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>This is  actually a &#8216;<em>dog tick&#8217;<\/em>, which does not carry Lyme disease, but does transit other nasties.  <strong>No tick is safe!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>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.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I use the same 4DX snap test to test that veterinarians use for tick and heart worm testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8216;dog tick&#8217;, which does not carry Lyme disease, but does<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/13\/tick-season\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Tick Season&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6037"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6040,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6037\/revisions\/6040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderingpawsfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}