I hate ticks!

Buy a flea collar but put it into the vaccume cleaner. vacume the house and throw the bag away outside your house as in far away like at the dump or something. If you don't do this the ticks just come back. Detick and wash all the animals linen and blankets or basket or kennel. DO this properly !! Finally detick the dogs, really get in there with your hands and rub it in well. Leave the foam on the animals for a while and makes sure they are outside on a clean surface or are on tiles inside. Make sure everything is deticked and clean. Dont let the animals roll around while they are wet. If you have to then use a hair dryer on the lowest heat. If it wont burn you it won't burn the pet so test it on yourself first. Don't go setting the animal on fire ^^ Finally you yourself take a shower and clean any clothing you have. Including shoes. This worked for me good luck for you

Ticks need a lot of preventing steps : every walk you do with your dogs, don't get them on the grass, don't take them between bushes and even not on a ground. You can probably take them to walk on a place no animal sleep at. For example, you can walk the dogs on the sidewalks near the roads. Don't take the dog to a park. Many other dogs probably played on the grass and ticks came down from them, and even smaller ticks may be on the grass. Don't take your dog where trash and scraps are found. The smallest ticks hang out on those things. Every time you get home with your dog, check him between the tows, inside and outside the ears, belly, arm pits, everywhere. If you see small ticks in your house, it's a big problem. Don't let any tick to grow on your dog. It will make the tick come off and lay a lot of eggs. The smallest ticks have the size of maybe a pixel or 2...

I have been having the same problem with my shih tzu Cody. He only goes out to do his business but ends up with ticks. He is not roaming on any grass or bushes. There are horses that go up and down my street and we think they are coming from them. I have done the same as you and nothing seems to help. They are sucking the blood right out of him and he is losing weight due to it. I can't believe I can't find something that really works. You spend all this money on these products to get rid of the ticks and it doesn't work.

Do you take your dogs for walks often? Where do you walk them? Because most of the ticks attach to the dogs during walks in the woods or open field. They live in the tall grass and bushes. If your dogs got ticks from your own yard, it means you have to do something to make the ticks disappear from your yard. Make sure the grass is cut short. Spray some solutions against the ticks and don't let the dogs go there for a few days.

My sympathies. I am currently wondering if the Frontline that I applied is gettign less effective becuase I am increasing my dogs baths form to possibly 3 or 4. I usually spray my dog with lavender/citronella mix alogn with Frontline and I'm not sure if it's working.

They are very common this year, is it ticks or is it fleas? They are two different things, fleas are on the skin and hair, ticks burrow in the skin. Try using Advantage, or Revolution. You need to treat the house, and area as well as the dogs. If you just do the dogs, this is why they repetedly get them over and over again.