i hope some one can help with this.............we are due to go to a new years eve party at a friends house, obviously tomorrow!........i just heard her dog has been very ill with Lymes disease and although over the worst of is she is still very weak. my problem is, i have a litter of 4 day old pups, and although we have someone babysitting over night is there a problem with us perhaps bringing infection back from our friends house even if we do not touch or encounter the dog?any advice would be good
thanks
Pauline

Hi Pauline
I think I'd phone my vet for advice on this one.

The only way you can transmit Lymes back to your pups is if you should bring a tick with it home, dogs can pick up ticks anywhere has your friend doused her home with a good tick and flea deterrant also.

Obviously a frontline spray for the pups would be a good idea.

I would be overly precautions, but I always am ;-) and it is totally unnecessary, but when returning home I would have a good spray of frontline all over my clothes and self when I got out of my car before going back in the house.

And make sure I had a shower before going near the pups again. But that is just me!!!

I would be overly precautions, but I always am  and it is totally unnecessary, but when returning home I would have a good spray of frontline all over my clothes and self when I got out of my car before going back in the house.

Actually, do not do that at all, there is the possibility of frontline being seeped into our body too which is not good.

Just frontline the pups, before you go and they should be perfectly safe. :-)

I'm not sure that using Frontline on 4 day old pups is a good idea - it does say that it's safe for pups over 2 days on the pack that I have, but I still wouldn't do it myself!  And Frontline won't actually stop a tick from latching on and starting to feed, but it will kill the tick after a bit.

You are so right ridgie I though they were 4 weeks old. Where is my head on this post!!!:rolleyes:

To be honest at that age I would not be going into a house where there is a dog ill or healthy, or leaving my pups at all! I never leave my pups for the first 2 weeks full stop.

I'm off to have a coffee, so that I can read properly.:rolleyes:

I'm the same about my pups, Carrington.  I wouldn't want to leave such young pups in someone else's care, but it's just a personal viewpoint.  And I wouldn't go where there was a sick dog - just to be on the safe side - again a personal view.  But if you do want to go, I would phone your vet to ask their opinion.

Don't go.

dont go it not worth the ipset to see sick puppies and why but them to that risk.it only another day.

i do know up setting it is to lost litters i have lost one litter of 9 to kennel cough and another litter were the mum hadthem early it not worth the risk to puppies or the other dog in the household,

i may have a bitch in whelp i will not take risk with her i will not be going to take the other dogs to shows or training to pick some thing to harm her.

Thanks everyone, my vet wasn't worried about it at all!, however we are not going..........we weren't leaving the pups with strangers but with a family member who is more experienced with pups than me so i wasn't concerned about that at all, i'm not stupid enough to go out and either leave them alone or with a stranger!............i have been breeding for over 30 years, just never encounter lyme disease before.
Pauline

I think I'm with your vet on this one, It would be highly unlikely that you brought a tick home that had fed on your friends dog Presumably your friends dog picked it up in a field, so as long as you didn't go walking while you were there, and rolling around in sheep fields, you should be fine. I wouldn't think they would have ticks crawling all over their house, waiting to jump on you and get a lift back to yours, then leap on the puppies :D