Re: RC: Re: Tick stuff

[Lif Strand <fasterhorses@gilanet.com>]

At 11:01 PM 6/26/00 -0400, C Eyler wrote:
> talked about using tick collars on an aged
> gelding who was otherwise covered in bites.  She stressed that one
> should use cat collars, not dog collars.  Said that the dog collars
> would be too strong for a horse's skin.  

Here's an experiment for people to do.  Get a flea collar, put it on
around an ankle.  My ex husband, who was extremely allergic to
fleas, actually put flea collars on his ankles in desperation. 
While it did keep fleas off his legs (if there was even one flea in a
house it would find him), it also totally numbed a band of skin for about
half an inch around each ankle.  I wonder what these collars do to
our critters?  Lif

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