Protect Your Home from Ticks
Protecting your home from ticks involves checking and treating your pets, creating tick-safe zones in your yard, and keeping deer away.
Pets
- Treat your dogs and cats for ticks as recommended by a veterinarian.
- Check your pets for ticks when they come indoors, especially in the summer months.
Your Yard
- Ticks need higher humidity levels to survive; they die quickly in drier environments.
- Remove leaf litter and clear tall grass and brush around houses and at the edges of lawns.
- Place wood chips or gravel between lawns and or play areas and wooded areas to create a dry barrier that is difficult for ticks to cross.
Keep the Deer Away
- Remove plants that attract deer.
- Plant deer-resistant crops.
- Fences make great neighbors and discourage tick-infested deer from coming near homes.
