Registered: May 2004
Location: northeast
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Just wondering if anyone else has this problem or is it me?In all the years I been hunting I been lucky and have only gotten two ticks off me that had already dug in for a meal.The last one I felt it as soon as it started and don't believe it was attached more than a couple minutes.The area that it had attached to will start to heal then it will itch like crazy until I got it raw.Cycle starts all over again just as you think it is going to heal .Last time I finally went to the doctors and got antibiotics and was told to put hot compresses on it a couple times a day.I was careful getting it out and don't see anything in the wound.What do you guys do that live in the heavy infested areas about them?Is this a common problem?

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Registered: Jan 2007
Location: West Ky
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Just make sure you got it all out & scratch for about a month.

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Registered: Jan 2007
Location: Texan by Birth---Virginian by Choice
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i live in the tick capitol of texas....when hunting im usualy the lead man goin tothe tree so i get more ticks on me than the rest.... when i get a lot on me....i stop at he back door,shed my clothes and into the washer, then go apply green alcohol. then shower...like you, over the last 2 years i got at least 2 ticks that it took the bite forever to heal...one took a month and one took 3 months......one was a deer tick,,,,,,,.one that took the longest was a big ole speck back.......

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Registered: Nov 2005
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Have been Bear hunting for the past 2 weeks off and on .. The rest of the time has been spent digging out embeded Deer ticks, Worse part is the heads pop off and I half to use a special Eye Sergery Hooked Scaple .. I'am talkin 5-6 ticks per hound per Hunt..

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Registered: May 2007
Location: missouri
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TICKS....NOW !!!!!

C'mon its Christmas time.

the fur cant be any good where the ticks are movin' ya'll need to travel up north...tick free livin for a few months...

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Registered: Oct 2008
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Ive pulled 3 deer ticks off me in the last 2 hunts. I have NEVER seen ticks here this time of year but they are hanging tough around southern ky. Shhh dont tell al gore he will preach a sermon on global warming.

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Location: northeast
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The first bite I spoke of went off and on for close several months.This last one I got was the first week of November.I was hoping this one would not last as long as the first one. Didn't know if that was normal.I put some drawing salve on it and it seems to have took the itch out of it.It is as bad as poison ivy when it gets started.The ticks I had were both deer ticks.
What was funny was when I went to the doctor the first time it went like this.
Question "What are you here for today?"
Answer"I got a tick bite that won't heal."
Question"A what."
Answer"A tick bite."
Question"A tick bite?What is that?"
Answer"You know one of those little bugs that bury in your skin and suck blood"I got a strange look then I showed him the bitten area.

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IT SEEMS THAT EVERYTIME A BREED OR LINE OF DOGS GET POPULAR IT EVENTUALLY LEADS TO ITS RUINATION BY UNINFORMED PEOPLE BREEDING WITHOUT DOING THEIR RESEARCH FIRST.

Gone but never forgotten:
NtChGrCh Dryfork Punkin
NtChGrCh Dryfork Little Blue Baby Doll
2009 Pa Show Dog Of The Year
GrCh Dryfork Little Black Book
Gr.Ch. Make My Day Sunny
Gone too soon RIP my baby girl
Gr.Ch. Black Dog Black Cherry
GrCh Dryfork Black Dog Raine
One of kind and would make a believer out of you when you thought there were no coon left
Home of:
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Show Handler Of The Year
CH. Power Pack Pepper
2018 Pa. Show Dog Of Year
Gr.Ch. Batman's Poison Ivy
2011&2013 WTDA Pa State Champion
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Registered: Mar 2005
Location: Illinois
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sounds like u need a better doctor. LOL. On sept I went huntng and got bit. I still have it. If u find a cure let me know.

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Registered: Oct 2007
Location: Iowa
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Every April and May I pull 20 or 30 off me mushroom hunting. That doesn't include the couple hundred I pull off my clothes while hunting. This fall I pulled a deer tick off me and a small red spot stayed for a couple weeks. A few joints were hurting but I wrote this off as hunting so hard. No flu like symptoms so I must be ok.

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Registered: Feb 2008
Location: Southern Virginia
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Ya'll need to go get some Duranon to spray your clothes sown with. It helps alot here and we have them deer ticks very bad.

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Registered: Nov 2008
Location: Pinckneyville, IL
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if the bite looks like a bullseye (white center with red ring) that's lyme disease. important to get antibiotics as soon as possible. i had it twice and both times never saw the tick (comes from tiny deer ticks hard to see).

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Registered: Aug 2006
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Just had a dog to the vet the other day to see if he tested positive for Lyme's. I vaccinated him and it worked. He's had dozen of deer ticks sucking on him, they all leave a little patch of hair missing when you pull them off. I asked the vet about it and she said the deer tick carries over 30 different types of bacteria in it's mouth and that is why the hair was missing. It causes a small infection at the bite site. This is why you itch from the bite itself.

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