Will Falconer, DVM Moderator
Co-morbidity was there in that dog, I think that's the likely explanation. Even the very sick humans with Lyme don't commonly die of it.
Just read a short piece on a voracious tick predator: the opossum. Guinea hens, too, if you can live with their noise. I like the burns. Seems green to me, compared to a lot of ag practices. Wisconsin farmers did this to the ditches every spring, and it took care of weeds and really greened up the next batch of grass growing there!