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.