What is DE? ---- Natalie <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry, I don't mean to change the subject from our cats do deer, but..... > I have to confess to you that I am very heavily involved in trying to remove > all the unfair blame for black-legged ticks/Lyme disease cast on deer. > Scientific studies have shown that the number of deer have nothing to do > with the number of ticks, and Lyme disease. In Fairfield County, CT (where > I live), deer densities are a lot higher per sq/mi than in Windham County, > CT - yet, incidents of LD are a lot higher where the deer numbers are lower! > When many deer are killed, the assumption is, wrongly, that the number of > ticks will decrease! It only means that the remaining deer will have more > ticks on them. When a deer is killed, ticks don't die with them (just as > when an animal that is infested with fleas dies, the fleas merely jump off > onto other animals.) As soon as the blood cools, parasites leave. The ONLY > solution is to go after the ticks! Black-legged ticks do not require only > deer to fulfill their life-cycle to lay eggs - any midsized mammal will > serve that purpose (horses in horse country, cattle on farms, etc, family > dogs and even opportune Homo sapiens). Even though one might want to lay > blame on the dozens of small mammals and even birds that carry the Lyme > disease-causing spirochete bacterium, WITHOUT black-legged ticks, the > transmission of the bacterium could be accomplished without them! Therefore, > the ONLY solution to eliminating LD is getting rid of the black-legged > ticks! > And again, I'm not sure that anyone has seriously considered DE for doing > that! It would stand to reason that if DE destroys the outer waxy covering > of fleas, dehydrating them, why wouldn't it do the same on ticks? Although, > it seems that fleas are harder to crunch and kill than ticks when they are > engorged fully with blood.... > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sally Davis > Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 8:57 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Felvtalk] Pet Armor > > Ticks are the worst near wooded areas and in the woods. They are in tall > > weeds, and shrubs. We have lots of deer and deer ticks, the smaller ticks > > carry lyme disease. It even the nymph stage can tramsmit lyme. The deer > > population has exploded here and so have the ticks. Last year the cats > would > > get in a nest of then and be covered with the small nymph stage. They > would > > engorge and I would have hundreds crawling on my bed. I uses a lint roller > > and duct tape to get them up, but what a pain. They are not as bad this > year > > but I started using the Frontline earlier. Last year I had to rush out > and > > get it where I could. I did not get the cheapest price, but I still bought > > the dog size. > > > > As for Revolution I was not going to go there but I did not have a problem > with it. I have heard it is safer then the other fles controls, because it > works in a different way. I am not doubting what your vet says. Poison is > poison. Sometimes a cat will lose hair where it is applied and it says that. > I did have this happen with one of my FeLV cats. He was the cat who probably > had Feline infectious anemia which is transmitted by fleas so for him better > to make sure there are no fleas it only takes one flea to infect a cat, and > a feline leukemia postive cat cannot fight off the infection. > > I have not used the nematodes but I have been interested in doing so. I do > not have a lawn and fleas tend to live in grassy areas. They just feed on > our pets. > > Sally > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > [email protected] > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > [email protected] > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
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