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The Kaiser Family Tick
Story
In 2004 I contracted Lyme
Disease. I also pulled deer ticks off my wife, children, and our dog.
Clearly, changes had to be made to make our home safe. We live on
an acre of landscaped property, with woods on three sides. I
researched tick control
and found URI tick specialist Dr. Thomas Mather's publications very
informative on
www.tickcounter.org. They became
the foundation of our home tick control program.
First, I cleared the
perimeter of our yard of brushy growth, kept the grass cut low, and
sprayed the recommended material (permithyn) around the perimeter of our
yard and on our planting beds.
Results were instant:
I stopped seeing ticks on my family and our dog. (An invisible fence
keeps her in the yard. She now gets no ticks at all, but, because we
cannot stop our cats from wandering, they still get an occasional tick.)
Because I am a
"tree guy", I'll always find ticks on myself, but my family is now
well protected!
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When I saw these results,
I decided to found Ocean State Tick Control to offer similar
protection to other families. Shifting our focus to controlling
ticks in residential landscapes was a natural progression because
Kaiser Tree already had been a leader in tree pest
control for decades. Since founding Ocean State Tick Control
in 2008, we have developed a sophisticated and effective program
which is reasonably priced and environmentally safe.
Our program is based on
research such as that done by URI's tick awareness department and is
modeled after leading tick control companies such as East End Tick
Control of Long Island and Weston Arborist of Weston, CT. We
now spray countless homes in southern RI and eastern CT and have yet
to have a single family report that the program wasn't working. |
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