I've been volunteering at our humane society's spay/neuter clinic. It's a great place where the surgery is MUCH cheaper than at the vet's office. In fact, I got Ziggy spayed, microchiped, and an extra dose of pain meds for the low cost of $72. Awesome. Most of the dogs and cats they get are from owners like me taking advantage of lower prices and other humane societies in the area. They also have a feral cat program. Most of the owned pets--and even animals coming from other shelters--are well cared for. However, there is occasionally an owner we'd all like to smack upside the head. Today two dogs came in COVERED with ticks. Have you ever seen a bloated, fat, happy tick? They were EVERYWHERE on these poor dogs. The vet techs pulled off as many as they could find before surgery and I pulled more than a few while I had them in recovery. Now, I expect that dogs who spend any time outside will occasionally come in with a tick. The little buggers are everywhere. But this was insane. Apparently, these two are outside dogs. My dogs are outside dogs as well, but I've never found a tick on either of them. Know why? Because I shell out for tick prevention meds (K9 Advantix FTW) and I check my dogs now and then to make sure they don't have any hitchikers. I just hope the poor things aren't anemic and/or pick up some kind of disease from the ticks.
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