You can treat with traditional EPA-registered barrier treatment or plant-based natural treatment with essential oils. Both types of products work and are applied by experts, and dogs can go back out in the yard as soon as it is dry with either.
In Minnesota, blacklegged ticks have been gaining a foothold. Along with them have come the increased rates of Lyme disease and anaplasmosis. You want to keep your dog away from these disease risks, but you also want to make sure you’re treating your yard with a product that is dog-friendly. It’s a fair concern, and one that pest control companies have answers for.
Conventional treatment consists of a barrier treatment. The products used are registered with the EPA and approved for residential use. That’s a very high regulatory bar to clear. These products are then applied according to the label by trained technicians. The treatment goes where ticks live, like leaf litter, ground cover, tall grass, and where the lawn meets the woods. It’s not going on the open sunny lawn where your dog gets the zoomies. Treatment knocks down ticks on contact and keeps working for about three weeks after application.
If conventional treatment makes you uncomfortable, you can also work with a natural treatment instead. It’s based on essential oils. It’s also applied in a very similar way and works well, with the main difference in performance being that it needs to be reapplied every 14 days rather than every 21 days.
With either treatment, once the product dries, dogs can use the yard again like normal. How long this takes depends on the weather, but it can range from thirty minutes to two hours.
Treating your yard for ticks is a good way to help keep your dog in good health. Paired with oral and topical preventatives given by a vet, you’re doing a lot to help reduce your pet’s odds of falling ill with a tick-borne disease.
If your dog's daily patrol route runs through tick country, Mosquito Squad of the Twin Cities can help. Mosquito Squad offers traditional and natural treatment options for the zones where ticks wait. This can help you to protect your pets and family with up to 90% reduction in pest activity on a recurring cycle.
