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After coming across them on our dogs, we got some stuff from a big pet shop chain called 'Tick-Off', which you basically spray on to the tick, wait for a few minutes and then it's easy to get out as it's stopped holding on. We use the special tweezers as well, from the vet. I think I'll be keeping them in my bumbag for a few months now!
A group of us were out last weekend and one of us found a tick firmly fixed to the thigh. We didn't have any tweezers with us but one of us had a tin of vaseline so we smothered the little blighter with a generous dob of that. The drowned creature came off easily later after getting home.
You're not supposed to do that because the tick will regurgitate it's stomach contents and increase the chances of picking up Lyme DiseaseQuote:
Originally Posted by Chris H
Oh, must read up and check on that. Seemed like a good idea at the time.
Thanks Rob, you were right. Checked here http://www.lymediseaseaction.org.uk/ticks.htmQuote:
Originally Posted by Rob Furness
I need to buy a tick removal tool.
Found a Tick on my Border terriers Penis other night, poor little devil sucking all the life out of it! Now back in full working order!Quote:
Originally Posted by Chris H
What did Jim test it on?Quote:
Originally Posted by Masham Man
Got a cushion in his bed he likes to hump. Like his owner a bit short of the real thing!...........................Hope the knees are all right Chris and that's another storyQuote:
Originally Posted by Chris H
Err, thank you Mr MM that's a bit too much information.
I knew I should have avoided reading this thread....I used to be worried about head lice, now I have to be worried about ticks as well...
There's ticks all over the place in the Outer Hebrides. I once answered the call of nature in a place that turned out to be where a herd of red deer sleep at night and I must have disturbed a nest of ticks because I had to pick off literally hundreds of them. Luckily they were all very very small so could just be scratched gently to get them off but it made me get a bit paranoid and they got everywhere...I mean everywhere!!! I think I may have entertained the watchers across the loch with my antics.