Ocean State Tick Control
"The Tick Terminators"
The Beginning
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.TickEncounter.org. They became the foundation of our home tick control program.
The first thing I did was to I clear the perimeter of our yard of brushy growth, kept the grass cut low, and sprayed the recommended material (permithryn) around the perimeter of our yard and on our planting beds.
Results were instantaneous: 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 start this company, 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 its beginning, 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 treat countless homes in southern RI and eastern CT and have yet to have a single family report that the program has not been effective. |