I don’t know if it is me, the animals I have entertained here over the years, or something of a deterrent in the environment, but in all the 30 odd years I have been living or visiting here I can count the number of ticks dealt with in double figures only. I can’t remember the last time any of us found one.
I do protect against them though, so maybe that is one reason, but I used to use the dab on Advantix before, on the advice of both the Dobermann association and the local pension that looks after many of their dogs, changing to Seresto collars. No ill effects, and no ticks. But it has been years since I had one on my own body and I don’t use either of the above. 
So, puzzled, but relieved, and I suppose I will be ordering 2 more Serestos very soon. 
Just spotted this article… bit longwinded but interesting
Well I never knew that before, ticks are arachnids not insects. 
I counted the legs.
Just putting off changing all the clocks. 
Too high a price to pay! What they suggest may minimise ticks but is seriously bad for other invertebrates, birds, small mammals and so on. Short grass overheats soil and is bad for structure too.
I’ll just keep picking them off me.
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I thought they were suggesting short grass or gravel for the walkways/paths/play areas… that sort of thing…
anyway… it only gives ideas and each of us will do our own thing as we think fit. 
The problem for Nature with using spot on treatments
NB. Frontline contains fipronil.
This is a warning regarding buying pet meds online
May be safest to assume the fakes are out there and just to be safe, buy from a vet or a pharmacy. Fakes at best do nothing and at worst can damage the pet you care about. Not worth being cheap!
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It would never occur to me to buy from anything other than vet or pharmacie with the exception of the tick collars that the association that owns Jules provides and I assume they get them from their vet.
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Has anyone found ticks on themselves that are possibly transferred from their dogs or cats? This morning, as I rolled out of bed, I noticed a large tick crawling up my leg, that (fortunately) wasn’t swollen/bloated etc. This is odd as I hadn’t been outside for 12 hours, wearing long trousers, socks etc, and hadn’t noticed it when checking the previous evening precisely for ticks. However my (rather clingy) fox terrier Paco had spent the night pressed against me, and wondered it could have moved from him to me. What’s odd is that, if so, it hadn’t presumably ‘feasted’ off him either, if he had been the unwitting‘host’ for 12+ hours.
No obvious signs of bites but I will keep an eye on the leg over the next few days, having previously been bitten by a tick that subsequently turned out to be carrying Lyme’s Disease.
We have started giving our dogs annual anti tic injections. It seems as if the tics they pick up eventually drop off, often in the house. They then die off but in the meantime we have had one or two land on us but are easily brushed off.
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I thought the tick season was coming to an end, at the behest of the association which owns Jules I fit a Seresto collar on him from May to October and in many years I have never seen a tick on either him, or me.
Yup! We live in fear of a visitor finding a tick crawling towards them. One reason dog is not allowed upstairs and especially not on bed or any furniture.
He is treated so if they bite him and attach to feed they die, but sometimes it seems they go for a long wander first, or maybe they just fall off by accident.
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