Welcome, welcome!!! Your pup is beautiful. My aunt lives in the country, and ticks are horrible this year! Their 2 dogs get ticks everyday, and some get so huge! What she does is that when it's "tick picking" time, she gets a special cup designated for ticks, and fills it up with bleach water. When she pulls the tick off, she puts it in the water and lets it drown before dumping out the water after she's all done. One time, my cousin's girlfriend came up to the cup when it was full of ticks and freaked out because she thought it was someone's drinking cup But doing that kills them.