Ticks

[Two Acres]

Hi mark your right there mate thanks we have a tick tool like a hook thanks Jon

 

Do you just use it on the dogs Jon or on yourself if you get one as well?

[Chopper Edoff]

Get a good pair of fine nosed tweezers - grab the ticks neck close to the skin and pull straight away from the skin. The tick feeding is no problem, it's when they finish and upchuck before detaching or from not removing cleanly that you get infected. I live in the woods and this is several times a day on me, the missus, dog cat etc

[Mark Bolam]

You told me Vaseline was good for everything.

 

No, I said Rohypnol was good for everything.

Don't you remember that?

 

 

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[Ian Leach]

Erm no just the Vaseline 😁

[codlasher]

They certainly don't like Easy-Start ether and acetone!

codlasher

[Two Acres]

Get a good pair of fine nosed tweezers - grab the ticks neck close to the skin and pull straight away from the skin. The tick feeding is no problem, it's when they finish and upchuck before detaching or from not removing cleanly that you get infected. I live in the woods and this is several times a day on me, the missus, dog cat etc

 

Thanks Chopper - good advice. I will do as you say. Just goes to show the nonsense you find on the net. I looked online this morning to see how to get it out and I read that you should put soap on cotton wool and rub it with that, so I did. It was a tiny one, not seen them before. Only ever the big ones on dogs and cats. When the cats had them I've put the vaseline on,I thought that worked. When I was a kid my Dad used to put a flame on the ones the dog got. Looks like those are all bad ideas.

[Two Acres]

They certainly don't like Easy-Start ether and acetone!

codlasher

 

Are you daubing them with that then Codlasher?

[walkerboys]

I just use a good pair of tweezers like already said for me and my dogs the tools don't seem to be as good as the tweezers u will see all the legs when you have pulled them out

[Mark Bolam]

I always put the pulled tick on a clean sheet of white paper.

Ideally they should be intact and mobile.

Crush them quick, though, and make sure the splatter is contained.

 

One of the only living creatures I have a genuine revulsion of and loathing for.

 

 

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[Mark Bolam]

 

 

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