The weather is warming and the first ticks have been spotted. We’re fairly fortunate in the limited number of tick-borne illnesses common to our area, but they’re still worth watching for, and not just for us. Like humans, dogs can get a variety of tick-born illnesses:
- Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
- Lyme Disease
- Canine Bartonellosis
- Canine Ehrlichiosis
- Canine Anaplasmosis
- Canine Babesiosis
- Canine Hepatozoonosis
Tick diseases in Montana
Spring has sprung, and our first ticks are out and about.When folks start talking about illnesses transmitted by ticks, the first to come up almost always seems to be Lyme Disease. While Lyme Disease is the most common tick-borne disease among Montanans, you don’t need to worry about picking it up around here – it…
How to tell spiders and ticks apart
This past week, some folks in our community Facebook page wanted to know if something was a tick or a spider. The comments section got a bit heated, and the offending post seems to have been censored. There were differing opinions, as there often are on such things, and opinions held with no shortage of…
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