The Big Tick Project was a success story for practices, say vets

Vets have voted the Big Tick Project a resounding success in a post-campaign survey, with 94% reporting their experience as being good or very good. As well as reporting high levels of satisfaction, the respondents revealed that altruistic reasons were their primary motivation for taking part, with ‘making a contribution to science’ and ‘obtaining regional data on the scale of the tick problem’, quoted by 96% and 90% respectively. Efforts of practices up and down the country have certainly been significant and as a result of their fantastic contributions 6,500 ticks removed from dogs this