We found her on the side of the street on our way home from work. This was on July 1, 2009 at about 6,00pm. I had to make myself very small and crawl into the bushes very slowly, not to frighten her, and grabbed her as soon as she was within my reach. Once I got her I noticed she was completely covered with tics. It was so much I didn't even know how to hold her and not get any on myself. Since it was in the evening there was no vet avalable and I sure was not prepared with anything to remove them. I simply had to leave her outside on our veranda in a box after we had fed her. She went to sleep. Next morning she was gone. I was devastated and couldn't find her since it was dark. I went back home after sunrise and found her on other side of house, crying, cold and scared. Too weak to move. It was an urgent trip to the closest aid.
This is what Flicka looked like before I took her to the agriculture vet assistant. He said he had never seen as many ticks on a dog before and made sure she got enough poison in her to kill off all ticks and more.
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| Bleeding and getting all weaker by the ticks feeding on her. |
It nearly killed her as well. I too have yet not seen any dog here in Fiji as badly infested by ticks as Flicka was.
Coming back home she was a bit better looking after we had picked ticks off her for about 30 minutes. Still there was plenty.
There was generation after generation everywhere!
But finally she came clean after 3,5 hrs of harvesting ticks.
A month later she was a lot happier.
And loved being in the center, especially in the car.
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| And discovered the crabs on the beaches, delicious | <>
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