I Hate..............

[Holly's mom]

WOODTICKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's Spring here in Minnesota and that means woodticks! Ugh!! I just hate them. Holly has had two of them on her, both by her eyes, luckily they weren't "hooked" on too much, I was able to pull them off with a tweezer. I found three more in the house this morning. Oh, they just give me the creeps, I hate them worse than spiders, I just feel crawly all over!!!!!!

Just wanted to vent..... I feel better now.

[Kfamr]

What exactly are they? I've never heard of them.

I'm assuming they're some sort of bug/insect.

[Logan]

I HATE any kind of tick. I don't even know the distinctions, I just know I hate them all!! I pulled one off of Zipper's forehead, right between his eyes, recently. YUCK!!!!! I know the Frontline will kill them, but I guess I found this one before it did it's thing.

YUCK YUCK YUCK!!!

[trayi52]

I hate ticks too! Seems like when Stubby goes outside, he brings a few in. They aren't bit in, just seems to want a ride into the house. Then he decides he is going to lay on me, and pretty soon they are on me!! I hate to get bit by a tick, they make me itch so bad!

I think here in this part of Tennesse, tick season started early and there is a lot of them.

Willie

[Holly's mom]

Originally posted by Kfamr
What exactly are they? I've never heard of them.

I'm assuming they're some sort of bug/insect.

Here's a link with a picture of what they look like:

http://www.enature.com/fieldguide/sh...&recnum=IS0108

They're just nasty, nasty, nasty!!!!!!!!!!!! They can't be killed by crushing or stepping on them, I usually flush them down the toilet. Some people burn them with a match.

[trayi52]

I do both, whichever is closer. I love burning them and making them suffer!! Flushing down the toliet is good too!

These guys start out small, but once they bite into your dog, they just blow up with blood. Yucky, nasty looking parasites. Thats what they make me think of!

Willie

[Desert Arabian]

I do too! They are terrible. Since my dad and I are in the woods a lot we get loaded with them. It is so disgusting! My dad gets a lymes shot to make sure he doesn 't get lymes disease since he is at extremely high risk of getting it- I am too, but I am too young to get the shot.

My puppy friend Rosie is a chocolate Lab, manoman, is it hard to find those suckers on her. Brown little bugs on a brown dog- they just don't mix!

Kay, they are little parasites that sit on foliage in the woods waiting for a host to brush them on to their body. They then stick their head in you and suck your blood. You can get really bad diseases from them- lymes disease. Their bodies swell up with blood. You have to remove them carefully, if you pull them out too fast their head rips off, and stays under your skin. Beyond disgusting isn't it!?! Here is a picture:

Engorged wood tick:



There are many different types of ticks: brown, wood, dog, and more. They are all different sizes and some are more dangerous than others.

[bluekat]

I don't think we have any of those here...but I'm glad we don't. We have all these ants now, and they're so annoying! There's so many of them, we just can't get rid of them all.

[Fallon]

I've never heard of them either or seen one.. From the picture, they do look pretty sick. I'm glad I've never encountered one and I hope they don't. How awful that you've found them on Holly.

[Laura's Babies]

GAG! GAG! WHY did I stop and look at this thread!! I HATE them too!!

[slleipnir]

Ewww. Thankfully, I don't think we have them here, I've never seen any anyway

[Dogz]

Be thankful that you do not have them there.

Speaking of woodticks, I just found one on my head.
I am hoping to find something good for the puppers, I find them all the time.

I think this calls for moving.

[GoldenRetrLuver]

Originally posted by Dogz
I think this calls for moving.

Mmhmm...you're welcome here anytime!

We don't have Wood Ticks in California. By the responses, I don't think I want them either.

YLL, EWWW!! Those *are* disgusting!

[Pam]

Unfortunately we have them here and I hate them too! Bella came down with Lyme disease through a tick bite about a year ago, but thankfully after a month of antibiotic therapy she was just fine. Now the dogs get the Lyme vaccine as well as Frontline. Actually the ticks were worse last month than this month. I shouldn't say that because I might jinx myself now.

[Corinna]

We have deer ticks here they are the ones that can cause Rocky mountain spotted fever. I'm not crazy about them ,luckly they are only in the outer areas not in town .