katiegirl wrote:They're also doing away with the tick treatment required on your return, and are still considering the tapeworm treatment. Good news eh?
From Lost in France website:
The two most common diseases spread by ticks are Babesiosis (Lymes Disease) and Piroplasmose, for dogs both can be quickly fatal as early signs of the disease can easily go unnoticed, therefore it cannot be stressed enough that prevention is better than cure!
Although tick fever does occur in the UK it is far more prevalent in France and other European countries, dogs and other pets coming to France from the UK are often more susceptible to the disease because they have not had chance to build up a natural immunity.
I never thought about ticks whilst living in the UK but here in the forests of the Dordogne, which are stuffed with deer, ticks are rife. Not only are tick bites dangerous to domestic animals but any person presenting a odd-looking insect bite to their doctor will immediately be prescribed antibiotics (happened to me) to ward of the possibility of the nasty Lyme disease. Since living here, our friend Tom has contracted Lyme disease, which flares up regularly and is very debilitating.
Presumably Defra's argument is that pet owners will 'frontline' their travelling pets as a matter of course, so mandatory treatment isn't necessary. Hope they're right.
Jim
and amazingly was happy to go along with whatever I said the legal requirement was! Trouble was, I couldn't remember whether it was the tick/flea or the tapeworm treatment that was still needed so ended up having both anyway. 
