If you’re bringing a dog to the Limousin, or maybe you’re already here and thinking of getting one, then know that dog + Limousin + summer = ticks.

We’ve had the pleasure of looking after Haute Vienne hound Weetabix for a couple of weeks. When I say Haute Vienne hound, she’s actually a Basset Fauve de Bretagne, but she lives in the Haute Vienne. Anyway, while she’s a little charmer, and not a bit of trouble, she don’t half attract ticks! Her record for a one hour early morning walk is 15 ticks!!!

There’s two sizes of tick that she collected. The big brown coloured ones, and the smaller black ones. Weeta only had a few of the bigger ticks all the time she was with us, but she had lots of the smaller ones. Removing the larger ticks is quite easy using the rub it with your finger method, but getting the smaller ticks out is a bit more difficult. We bought some tick pullers from the local pharmacy.

We soon got into a routine of checking Weeta as soon as we got back from her walk. We found that we’d find lots of ticks that hadn’t attached themselves, and we’d remove those before they did. We’d use the tick pullers to get the rest out, very easy to use, they get all of the tick out without causing it any stress, then it can be despatched.

We really enjoyed having Weeta around, and missed her when she left. She’s a little darling. We made a short video of her…….