My first ever tick removal - Page 2

Paul that is not what we are taught about ticks in CT. I have a son who contracted Lyme disease but never a dog. I do vaccinate the dog, that could be the difference. Otherwise people here would be eating doxy like daily vitamins.

Ticks are vile, gross and disgusting! Florida has ticks but nothing you all get above the florida/georgia state line. My sister lives in Alabama and holy crap them nasty things are everywhere.
The tick arrest collar do work very well in tick infested area. I'm lucky, so far no ticks at my house!
But years ago i had a white boxer that had a little mole above his eyebrow, that was the same color, size and shape of a tick. And everybody who spotted it tried to rip Shiner's mole off. Poor dog i was forever defending his spot.
And as a former groomer, i've found ticks everywhere including on me! Yuck!

Sunsilver:
I live in the country, outside Orangeville north of Bolton where I have never ever seen a tick before the other day. Poor Maya, she is getting tick checked practically every hour. Every time I look at her I have to go over her everywhere, and she thinks I am nuts. I think I am nuts. Between seeing a tapeworm in her poop a few weeks ago and the tick the other day, I almost feel like building one of those plastic tube like things around the yard for her to live in, just like on that K9 Advatage commercial. I laughed at that commercial before, and now everytime it is on I look to see how they hold it together.  LOL

LMAO too until I remembered the time I knocked a tick off my beard into the sink, flushed it down the drain with hot water, and came back 5 minutes later to find the sumbitch crawling out of the drain. Emptied half a can of bug spray into the sink and 10 minutes later he was still trying to crawl up the sink. Put him in a jar with a different bug spray I think it was biospot and he finally stopped moving after half an hour. Kept him there for two days and made sure he still wasn't moving and then dumped the closed jar into the outside garbage can. Damn ticks could survive a nuclear war.

Also this: "On several occasions we have seen American dog ticks follow a regular source of carbon dioxide (houses with a prevailing wind blowing mostly in one direction) which ended up attracting them for perhaps a few hundred meters to the house--the ticks were literally crawling up the outside walls towards the window screens and doors in one notable case."

From

http://www.tickencounter.org/faq/tick_habitat

So yeah one of those sumbitches probably could crawl up the toilet side if its not too slippery and latch onto your ass.

I don't bat an eyelash at spiders, snakes, frogs.  Draining open wounds or blood or just about any gross thing you can think of that comes with animal husbandry doesn't bother me but ticks give me the heebie jeebies.  I can't touch them with my fingers, something about the sensation of their legs wriggling against my fingerpads just has me flinging them and screaming.

I tweezer the buggers and they don't get a nice comfortable drowning.  Oh no, I light those suckers up and burn them into oblivion.