Would strapping a cat's flea-and-tick-coller just above the knees stop the ticks from going to the nether regions?
My sister, who has been a vet assistant for umteen thousand years, once told me that flea and tick collars don’t protect the cat or dog’s whole body. It just stops them from moving onto the head.
Ticks are really bad this year, especially out at our land. Ticks come from the ground up. We have the main areas mowed so they HAVE to start from the ground, at your feet, but that isn’t stopping the ticks altogether. Virtually everyone who came out found a tick on them. Next time we take the kids out, or ourselves for that matter, if we strapped cat flea-and-tick collars on their legs, or our legs, just above the knee, will that stop the ticks from going any higher into their hidy places that you don’t find for two or three days when “ARRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! GET IT OFF ME!!!!” reverberates through the house?
Please think about it for a second folks, before anyone starts to react to using “pesticides meant for animals” on humans. We use pesticides all the time, in the form of spray-on insect repellant, lice shampoo, bug bombs, and a dozen other ways. Bugs is bugs. They react to the same thing. Mammals is mammals. We’re the same in more ways than we’re different
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I’d be really careful on using them on kids. The collars aren’t regulated as much as other stuff.
@Adirondackwannabe I haven’t heard any stories of the collars killing or sickening any pets over the last 50 years. And the small collars are for cats. And If we’re talking about concentrations (which we aren’t…the concentration of flea/tick powder on the collars is the same. The only difference between “large dot” and “cat” is the size of the collar) an average five year old is about 10 times larger than a cat.
O. Wait. We could start a “Pink Slime” hysteria here!
I never use pesticides ever, and certainly not in the ways that you list.
However, I wear long pants tucked into white socks, long-sleeved shirts and a hoodie with the hood up when I am in the woods. Once inside, I do a thorough body search, including ears, pits, crotch, and damp hair line by neck.
Today my Lyme titer test came back both positive and negative. The doctor and I talked about this for a bit, commiserated and then both agreed to a two-week course of Doxycycline, for me (not for him). He said that the tests are mysterious and we should deal with the sudden onset of suitable symptoms and the number of ticks hanging around.
I would be careful. The pesticides on human skin does not seem like a good mix.
If you try it, let us know the results.
@gailcalled…how do you get rid of roaches if they show up? Or what if an animal brings fleas into the house and for whatever mysterious reason it’s suddenly fleas gone wild (this happened at my mom’s house once.)
Long pants and socks and hoodies and boots? Ish! I would die in the 100+ Kansas heat! I would melt into a a puddle of Dutchess.
@jazmina88 Well, I sprayed my lower legs with flea and tick spray (from the pet aisle) last Sunday. So far so goo…
@Dutchess_III :There is a lot of wildlife here but I have never seen a roach nor heard of any visiting anywhere in the community. Maybe the huge numbers of Lyme ticks are the alpha insects and have dominion over all.
My ex had an infestation of fleas after he left my clean house and rented a cottage several miles up the road. It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy. Talk about poetic justice.
When the heat is brutal, I stay out of the woods and the fields and check myself very carefully.
I stopped today to dig up some bloodroot from the side of a shady road with an overhang of very tall trees.
I did discover a tick crawling up my pants leg.
So, what you’re saying @gailcalled is you would never use insecticide because you have never had reason to. That’s cool. (so sorry to hear about your ex and his fleas. Heh!!)
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