01/10/2024
🔸DOBERMANNS AUSTRALIA TICK PREVENTION PLAN🔸
Preventing ticks in your garden involves several steps to reduce their population and limit your exposure to them. Here are some effective methods:
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Maintain Your Lawn
Mow the lawn regularly:
Ticks thrive in tall grass and overgrown areas. Keeping your lawn trimmed reduces their preferred habitat.
Clear brush and weeds:
Removing leaf litter, tall grass, and weeds around your yard perimeter can minimize areas where ticks hide.
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Create a Tick Barrier
Use wood chips or gravel:
Create a 3-foot-wide barrier of wood chips or gravel between wooded areas and your lawn to prevent ticks from moving into your yard.
Keep play areas and patios away from
bushes and woods:
Ticks are most likely to be in areas of dense vegetation, so keeping high-traffic areas of your yard away from these places helps.
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Control Wildlife Access
Deer and rodents:
Ticks often travel on deer, mice, and other wildlife. To deter these animals, use deer fencing or repellents, and clear rodent habitats by sealing up possible nesting sites like woodpiles.
Install bird feeders away from your home:Birds can carry ticks, so keeping feeders away from your home and places you frequent can reduce tick encounters.
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Use Tick-Repelling Plants
Plant tick-repellent species:
Lavender, sage, rosemary, and marigolds can help deter ticks, as they dislike the strong smells these plants produce.
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Apply Tick Control Products
Use pesticides:
You can apply eco-friendly acaricides to areas where ticks are likely to gather, such as the perimeter of your yard or under trees.
Nematodes: These microscopic organisms can be applied to your soil to kill tick larvae and nymphs.
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6. Manage Pets
Tick prevention for pets:
Regularly check pets for ticks and use veterinary-approved tick preventatives to reduce the risk of bringing ticks into your yard.
By combining these methods, you can significantly reduce tick populations in your garden and protect yourself and your family from tick-borne diseases.
Iron Dog Rescue Inc
Blacktown Animal Rehoming Centre
Sydney Animal Hospitals
Animal Welfare League NSW
RSPCA NSW