As though it were a prized game animal, a favorite pastime amongst Valley residents is the presenting of freshly-plucked ticks to our clinic staff.

This will typically begin early spring and last even into early winter. Enjoyable as it is attempting proper identification of these creepy crawlers, a common misconception is that we should only fear the blacklegged tick (commonly known as deer ticks). Here in the eastern U.S. we have many species of ticks that can transmit disease including Lone Star tick, American dog tick and Brown dog tick.

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