primitives discuss ticks

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/116116780

Oh my.

TorchTheWitch (9,281 posts)     Tue Jun 10, 2014, 01:34 PM

Great way to get ticks safetly off your dog or cat

after which a youtube thing

Much better than the traditional way (shown below) that doesn't risk leaving the head under the skin, hurting the pet, and especially for those pets that don't like to stay still. This video is good though for information on what NOT to do...

after which another youtube thing

You know, I've never had to deal with ticks--I dunno why, I've just been lucky--with any of the cats out here, and I'm sure this is prime tick terrain.  But If I had to, I assume I'd just take the cat in to the veterinary, as I'm no surgeon.

My father and my mother, registered nurses both, were always removing ticks from my pet dogs when I was a lad in the Sandhills of Nebraska, but neither of them used anything as shown in the two youtube things above.

Instead, they just took a lighted match or a cigarette lighter and applied it to the top of the tick, which then immediately withdrew.  And the dogs always cooperated, as it was something done in, like, five or ten seconds, my parents were that good.

polly7 (11,274 posts)  Tue Jun 10, 2014, 02:40 PM 

1. I hate tick season ..

I remember one year, my horses were driven nearly crazy by them. I'd spend hours every night pulling them off, despite applying different tick repellents every morning that never seemed to work at all that year. My sister lost two foals. They were just horrible.

OnyxCollie (8,114 posts)    Tue Jun 10, 2014, 02:41 PM

2. I use a Tick Key.

http://www.tickkey.com/

Works well.

I HATE ticks. Hate 'em. They're all over the place.

TorchTheWitch (9,281 posts)    Tue Jun 10, 2014, 03:20 PM

3. ticks disgust me like no other bug

Creepy things that can't even be killed by whacking them with a hammer that stick their nasty little heads into the skin to suck out your blood. GROSS!
 
With the tickkey though I'm not seeing how you can get the head to come out still attached to the tick especially since it got pulled out so quickly in the video. Vets always say you have to pull on the tick slowly and gently to get it to pull out it's head. That's why I like the Frontline/Advantage/ect. method because it makes the tick pull it's head out.
 
If the head is detached do they still walk around? Yoshi got a tick on his neck last week that I pulled out with the tweezer method like the vet does, and it was still crawling around on the back step so I fried his ass with my candle lighter. I just assumed I got his head out because he was walking around. First time I ever found a tick on my dog since I always use Frontline Plus, but this year I think I was a little late in the season putting it on him for the first time. Which reminds me, it's about time for his next monthly dose. Getting ticks off a really hairy dog like him it's so hard to get the fur out of the way so you don't accidentally yank out some of his hairs.
 
OMG, just talking about ticks makes me feel like I have a dozen in my underwear!!! eeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww!!!

OnyxCollie (8,114 posts)    Tue Jun 10, 2014, 03:49 PM

4. The tick key slides right over the "neck"

and with the leverage, the head comes right out.

It's a little hard to use with very small ticks.

I've set ticks on fire, too, LOL! Soaked in rubbing alcohol, the little bastards burn up real good. They pop like popcorn. Horrible, disgusting popcorn.
 
I've found ticks on my dogs with Frontline. Is Frontline Plus the new product? I didn't want to use it because of seizures.

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[Chris_]

I don't know why they're upset about them.  Ticks are just small Democrats.

[JohnnyReb]

All I've ever done was just grab that sucker and pull him off.....me and the dogs I had. Never had any problems.

Mom and dad had a small dog that I pulled close to a hundred ticks off one afternoon. Poor thing was whinning, wobbling around and could barely walk. Dog didn't like to be handled but that day it's was like she knew what I was going to do and she came right to me. By the time I got them all off she was her old self again. From then on she would come running to me and let me pet her and check her out when ever I came to visit.

[thundley4]

I don't know why they're upset about them.  Ticks are just small Democrats.

Yep, the worst ticks are DemocRatIcks. They suck blood from multiples hosts at one time.

[CollectivismMustDie]

You know, I've never had to deal with ticks--I dunno why, I've just been lucky--with any of the cats out here, and I'm sure this is prime tick terrain.  But If I had to, I assume I'd just take the cat in to the veterinary, as I'm no surgeon.

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While cats occasionally get the odd tick,  mostly they wont get them.

The reason, I'm told, is that cats have much more acidic blood than dogs, and that makes them unpalatable for the most part.

CMD

[JohnnyReb]

While cats occasionally get the odd tick,  mostly they wont get them.

The reason, I'm told, is that cats have much more acidic blood than dogs, and that makes them unpalatable for the most part.

CMD

I just pulled several tiny black deer ticks off one of my cats.....did I say black?....oh, how racist of me.

[diesel driver]

I don't know why they're upset about them.  Ticks are just small Democrats.

Who grow up to be DUmmies...

I was going to ask if we could hit them with a hammer like a bloated tick when they've had enough, but DUmmies never get enough, SO, can I hit them with a hammer NOW?   

[franksolich]

While cats occasionally get the odd tick,  mostly they wont get them.

The reason, I'm told, is that cats have much more acidic blood than dogs, and that makes them unpalatable for the most part.

Thanks; I always wondered, because as I said, this is prime terrain for ticks.

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[ChuckJ]

While cats occasionally get the odd tick,  mostly they wont get them.

The reason, I'm told, is that cats have much more acidic blood than dogs, and that makes them unpalatable for the most part.

CMD

I'd never thought of it until frank mentioned it, but the dog always seems to be getting ticks. I've never found one on one of the cats.

[GOBUCKS]

Another DUmp big deal over nothing.

Over the years I've pulled countless ticks from my beagles and myself.

They itch like hell for a couple of days for me, but the dogs have never once shown any sign of even knowing they were there.

Never understood this business about "leaving the head under the skin" and all the methods for removing them.

Just pull them off and forget about them.

[CollectivismMustDie]

I just pulled several tiny black deer ticks off one of my cats.....did I say black?....oh, how racist of me.

Indeed, Cats will still get them, on occasion, and I gather some tick species are less..."picky"... than others, but my understanding is that generally the domesticated cat won't get infested in the same times and places that dogs and other mammals do.

One of our dogs gets a ton of them every year no matter what we do, though frontline seems semi-effective. The outside cats on the other hand...I've pulled maybe three ticks off of in the last 10 years.



CMD

[obumazombie]

Yep, the worst ticks are DemocRatIcks. They suck blood from multiples hosts at one time.

Hydra Democraticks  ?

[BlueStateSaint]

While on a site visit for work about two months ago, I had two deer ticks fall onto me.  Both were found before either one could bite me.  Good thing, too.

[vesta111]

Small bottles of super glue or nail polish.

Riding down the highway, son of ten showed me a tick in his ear.  Yikes, I on instinct just put a dab of super glue on the Mother.   I had no idea what to do, this Yankee girl had never seen ticks or those bugs coming up from the South to the back woods of Maine.

VA. Beach we found the nasty jelly fish, darn they hurt, was told to carry Meat Tenderizer  to stop the pain.   

Never ran into chiggers until Tenn.   Then are the fire ants that we Yankees do not know of.