I Found a Tick On Me!

[Daisy and Delilah]

YIKES!!!! Get to the doctor if it looks strange. How awful for you!! I hope it's ok.

[Pam]

Unfortunately ticks are a part of life here in NJ. I have found them on all of my dogs over the years. The last time I had one attached to me was years ago. I am frequently checking myself after a long time out in the yard. Now with Frontline it is not a problem for the dogs, but I don't think it would be a good idea for hubby to apply Frontline to me. Seriously, you will probably be fine. If there was a bull's eye rash I would be concerned and, should you develop any symptoms of Lyme disease, you should see your doctor. Also, there is nothing that will make them "back out." You just have to pull them out with tweezers and apply alcohol to the area.

[chocolatepuppy]

Yuck! I'd be freaking too! We don't have a lot of problems with ticks here *knocks on wood* and the dogs use Frontline Plus so hopefully they are safe. I've had ticks on me before but it was years ago. It is very upsetting trying to get them off of you.

[Kalei]

Gross! I hate ticks so much, they are so scary cause of those freaky legs they have that keep themselves latched to you. I had one in the side of my neck before and it went unoticed for awhole two weeks. It was just in the side of my neck where my shirts cover and I have some little moles on my neck so I would have thought it was another mole if it weren't for my mom one day seeing it.

I was so freaked out and I cried and everything, mom took me to the hospital to get it out that way we could make sure the head was out too. But now I am fine

I just hope one doesn't come on me again.

[jayda]

I HATE ticks too!
i just moved my horse to a new farm with really tall green pasture in the back.
i only let my horse go back there about once a week and the first time she went out there she hgot about 15 ticks on her they were everwhere you could think of ,i had two other people helping me and it took about a hour to get them all!!

[GiantSchnauzer]

Not a fan of ticks either. I've had one on my thigh before. Not embedded. Gives you the creepy crawlies for the rest of the day. Yuck!

Knock on wood the past couple of years I haven't seen any. I spend alot of time in the NH woods during the summer.