centipeds

I have a long haired dog and fleas and ticks have always been a problem in controlling. I usually apply his frontline plus every 3 weeks depending on how often he swims. By the end of 3 weeks he's usually okay, but in case of a rogue flea I give him the Capstar too.

I used to just put him on normal frontline. Great for fleas, but the tick situation was uncontrollable. Someone told me to switch to the Plus version which seems to work ALOT better for controlling ticks.

PS. Centipedes are a thriving species and definitely NOT endangered or threatened. Until they are, into my rum bottle they go. I have been bite twice (unprovoked, in my sleep, on my neck and hand) and had terrible, aching pain for several hours. They can do serious injury to small children and animals or someone with an allergy to the venom.

Goalusvi, good tips! Thanks. My dogs are inside animals but only one has the tick problem. The other one doesn't. After the dip, she smelled like a toxic waste dump but in a week or so, the ticks came back. I might check out the Plus medicine because the regular stuff did nothing.

here in florida, where flees are a big problem i take the dog the the beach a couple times a week. the saltwater does wonders. hope you can do it there at some of the remote beaches. be in stx in 3 weeks for my pmv. dog Will stay in florida for that.

Altho not Buddhist, I too gather up outside creatures who have wandered in and put them back outside. I can't deal with killing they, usually a gooey mess!!!

Good point Linda J.

Gongolas (millipedes) are very slow moving and easy to relocate (although I try to have my husband handle this chore because they are SO ugly and creepy). I did squish a gongola once and it was a BIG mess, as they are rather large creatures.

The few centipedes I have seen are small and move very quickly, so they generally don't tend to make it out alive -- simply because I don't want to be bitten during the "relo" process.

I don't mind most spiders and I try to relocate them, if at all possible. That said, I haven't run into a scorpion yet. Those things are so disgusting that if I came across one, I would kill it immediately.

This has turned out to be an interesting discussion and I'm glad that at least a couple of forum members have come out in favour of not decapitating/stomping/smooshing, etc. while not labelling me as a nut!

Gongolas, centipedes, millipedes, and their ilk are pretty slow movers and can easily be swept up with a dustpan and broom and tossed far out into the bush, No doubt they'd far rather be out there than in your space. If you live in a a particularly infested area, pest control experts can set you up on a regular maintenance schedule to spray both the inside and outside of your property.

As far as fleas and ticks on animals are concerned, I regularly use Frontline Plus (both on the inside and outside cats) and it works well. During certain seasonal periods and when my bare feet are being "nipped" I close up everything, use the Raid foggers which are awesome, and quickly exit for a couple of hours.

One of my inside cats is allergic to Frontline Plus and any kind of a flea collar so after debugging everything I give her a Capstar tab. Once it gets into her system (about half an hour after intake) she scritches and scratches furiously for about half an hour until the dying fleas have finally given up their fight and dropped off her. Then she gets a big smile on her face, yowls a thank you and goes about her business (her business entailing, of course, mostly sleeping!)

The wolf spiders won't bother you unless you bother them. Often mistaken for their relative tarantulas (which are not only not here in the islands but also only minimally poisonous if biting when provoked) they stay out of the way and mostly in underground digs. When threatened they assume a posturing stance balancing on their hind legs ready to bite. If you're digging in the garden, a simple bang of your spade into the ground will have them scurrying off.

The small brown poisonous 'recluse" spider generally lives in wood piles and, again, only attacks when disturbed, Their bite is much more poisonous than that of the Wolf Spider.

Scorpions? In over two decades on STT I've only encountered scorpions twice and they were very small. One I never found but I sat on my living room couch at the time wearing just a long tee and was nipped in the bare butt.
I shot up, never found the scorpion (or it could have been a spider) but that little bite didn't heal for about two weeks. It was a weeping sore until it finally went away.

And I did go into the shower one day and faced a very small scorpion who raised his tail. I jumped out of the shower, pulled out the broom and dustpan and tossed him WAY out into the bush. He'd already been doused with water so may not have made it but...

Yes, Trade, I do rescue animals both large and small, domestic and wild, and of course my business is not a solely vegetarian establishment so please save the sarcasm, dear heart!

Enough for now, so cheers and hope I've been of some assistance!

You......you.....you big insect lover

/sorry for the ad hominem attack

Sarcasm? My, my, my. I'll save what you perceive as sarcasm when you quit what I perceive as preaching, dear.

I hope all that beef you serve has just been cuddled to death instead of how I've always heard it's slaughtered.