IT’S that time of year when we start spending more time outdoors, but there’s an unwelcome creepy-crawly that makes its appearance with the warmer weather – a veritable vampire that sucks blood from its host.
Ticks are most prevalent in the warmer months, so that’s also when serious tick-borne diseases are more common and hikers, campers and farmers need to be especially vigilant.
In South Africa, it’s not uncommon to find a tick or two on your dog after a walk. Sometimes they’ll simply be in your doggie’s fur, but other times they may already have latched onto your pooch’s skin and drunk their fill by the time you spot them.
What will really make you shudder is if you discover
