Chigger

Chigger
 

What are the chigger most known?

I have a pet (A little dog in my house) and well just I watched over him a little animal in its hair and surprise they were an big chigger over the dog hair.

I don't know I have shower it with an especial shampoo gave for my own doctor veterinary and well I have clear him myself with time of course, but anyway with the warm that it's here in my city because just is a island, they tend to enter to my house.

I'm afraid of the chiggers, because they transmit a lot of kind to illness, and I don't know what are the kind to chigger that transmit illness potentially dangerous for the human.

Please you advice me as I should to kill them the most fast possible.:mad:

What is a chigger? :confused: Do you mean "tick", garrapata? :thinking:

My dog is wearing two collars, one of them to avoid mosquitos (leishmania); the other, to avoid ticks. Furthermore, I put a pippette to avoid flea (pulgas) and ticks (a good brand). I don't bath her very often with shampoos (not even specially for dogs), since they remove her natural and necessary grease. I apply a mixture of water and vinegar on her with a soft cloth, rubbing. I brush her hair very often, too (even with special brushes). I clean her ears, too (and she loves it), and another parts with a special shampoo. She has a beautiful hair and everybody always tells me that my dog is always so clean! (I think: "if you knew that I almost never bath her..." :D ). A rosemary and thyme tea is good to avoid parasites, just apply it with a spray and brush his hair. Brushing is very important, look for a good brush. Intern desparasitation is also necessary.

I hope it helps. :)

Wow!
I lift shuff with your cared over the dog.
Yes the doctor told me that I should to put him a collar, but with the experience of the others pets I had, I don't believe in the collar anymore.

Then if you can give the collar name or the brand, so I can find here in my city.
It's urgent.

I bought a insecticide for him and clean him with that, because I saw three tick over my dog in the its little arms.

The collar more effective against ticks must have a product called "amitraz". The most common brand here is Preventic (R), but as my dog doesn't bear its smell, I use Friskies (R) with amitraz. The only collar sold for mosquito is Scalibor(R), which is also useful for flies and ticks. However, the best, the best thing for ticks are pippettes. I use Frontline(R) for flies and ticks and I'm used to go to the mountain and she never gets ticks (although I always look for them on her skin before getting home). Frontline(R) is also sold with spray.

Wash your hands immediately after applying pippette or collar with cold water (agua fría), to avoid you get the insecticide (or use plastic gloves, of course). Don't touch the back of the dog until the oil from the pippette is completely dried (one day, more or less). Don't bath the dog (or avoid rain) the following two days after the application.

At home, I use Bio Kill (R), un "insecticida de contacto", which is not toxic. You mustn't spray the air, but on the surfaces: the floor, his bed, the places he is used to lie down. Don't allow him to sleep on the sofas or the beds. I have a couple of dogs' beds, so she can be with us but never on the sofa or the bed, that is forbidden for her and she never tries to go up.

Bet for pippettes, you won't regret. They are a bit expensives, but with a pippette you have your dog protected for a month.

I don't know if the brands will be the same there. :thinking: :)

No, a chigger and a tick are not the same thing. A tick feeds off the blood of an animal, and a chigger is a larva form of a mite that feeds off the skin. Both are common where I live.

I will do a little list with the products that you have wrote here in the post and immediately I will go with the veterinarian doctor and I will ask him above the products and collars insecticide that you told me.

Thank you.

Also my dog has forbidden the access to my room, he only can be in the room living, when he doesn't can up with the easy chairs and less where is the kitchen, I bought a insecticide yesterday with the veterinarian doctor and I applied the product over its skin because I saw time before a littles ticks in the skin of my dog and well just sometimes I see the ticks in the floor walking over the floor of my house, because I can see that they are entering for the door and well as my yard front has arena's beach is an excellent place for the grow of the ticks, well this told me the doctor, then I bought a little product some toxic called Asuntol and last night I took a cube with water and I mixed up the product with water and I threw the water over my yard, the finality is that the Asuntol lift in the arena and the ticks die in the moment that is walking over my yard front.

Then really here is a trouble, because here in Mexico is different to other countries, already that here in my country is legal the dog from street ( Perro Callejaro ), then trouble is that there're dogs in the street full of ticks over them.

And you will imagine the mount of ticks or chiggers that I have outside of my home:mad:

I'm not sure what is a chigger. There aren't chiggers here. The dictionary says that the Spanish word for chigger is "nigua" or "abuje", and these words look like of LAm origin. :thinking: I've looked for images of chiggers and they look like a tick, but red, I think they are acarus. And if a look for "mite", I can see "garrapata".:thinking: I've seen people with chigger bites in the web, and they are horrible. :eek:

Crotalito, I hope you'll be able to eliminate that plague. :worried:

Do you have a front yard? You can plant rosemary, it repel insects. Think of a barrier on the door, such as a "burlete de cepillo" or a "puerta mosquitera", maybe these things avoid the insects come into your house. :thinking:

I wish you the best (I hate insects...). :) :rose:

Yes I hope soon that I can fight upon them, because really they are a plague for me and my family too.
Meanwhile I'm do a search in the veterinaries if they have the collar that you told me and well, I hope to have good luck in the searching of the correct medicament for the kill the ticks.

I have understood that chigger are Garrapatas, I didn't know that also the word tick mean Garrapata, because I searched in the dictionary the word garrapata and it launched me the word Chigger and not tick, but well I believe that they are correct, because I searched again and the dictionary tick mean garrapata too.

Good luck! :)

Recuerda que las pipetas dan mejor resultado que el collar. ;)

Irmamar.

Can you send me a picture of the pipetas?
Because I asked to the dog's doctor and he told me that he does't know anything about the pipetas.

Please if I gather information above the pipetas and also I gather a picture, I believe that the searching could be easier in my city.

Don't you believe?:)

http://www.animalots.com/images/pipetas_2_20_kg.JPG

http://www.mascotaclubdelperu.com/im...1208800916.jpg



Look here, I've seen Mexico. :)

No son para beber, se aplican en la cruz del perro (o gato), en la espalda.

All right.

I will take the picture to the dog's doctor.

Thank you for your time.

You're welcome. :)

I hope you get rid of these chiggers.

Just three days ago I rid of the tricks to was in my house near of the dog. I bough the medicament that the veterinary told me, and well I killed them.

I hope haven't more tricks around of my house meanwhile.

Thank you Irmama for your support with the medicament names you gave me in this long post.