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Yesterday Galen was acting unusually headshy. I assumed he was just in a squirmy mood and thought no more of it. Then, last night, I was brushing Galen's top-not and found three ticks embedded in his scalp. Ugh! Spring and fall, when the weather is chilly and damp, are always really bad for ticks in my area. I guess the few brief rainstorms and the drop to autumn temperatures, has woken up the fall crop. Yuck.
He has very thick hair, so I had to carefully part the strands to see the ticks. Then, of course, as soon as I got out my tick remover Galen started squirming and biting at the tick remover, and I would lose track of the tick. It was very frustrating for both of us. Finally I just dosed him with a tube of Frontline left over from Pogo and went to bed. (Galen has just barely reached the bottom weight range for Pogo's dose.)
This morning I checked again and found a couple more ticks. At least these ones were no longer waving their little legs at me. I was easily able to extract them with the tick remover. Galen seemed less bothered by me working on them this morning, too.
He has very thick hair, so I had to carefully part the strands to see the ticks. Then, of course, as soon as I got out my tick remover Galen started squirming and biting at the tick remover, and I would lose track of the tick. It was very frustrating for both of us. Finally I just dosed him with a tube of Frontline left over from Pogo and went to bed. (Galen has just barely reached the bottom weight range for Pogo's dose.)
This morning I checked again and found a couple more ticks. At least these ones were no longer waving their little legs at me. I was easily able to extract them with the tick remover. Galen seemed less bothered by me working on them this morning, too.