Health professionals say tick season usually begins when the temperatures begin to rise and dormant ticks start looking for food.
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My area is loaded with them. I can spray around the house and it remains a tick-free area, and most of the ones I get off the dogs are from them getting down into the brush. Even with tick and flea meds from the vet, I still find one or two a week on them.
I used to have to pull several off me when I mowed, them getting attached when I brushed against the brush on the edges of the property or around the trees in the yard, until a couple years ago when one of my readers suggested taking a daily dose of low-odor garlic tabs. That shit works. Since then, I've found exactly one tick on me, and that was last week. I was actually kinda surprised when I did find it.
