My wife found this "pebble" on the floor in our dining room. It started to run away. She mustered her courage and captured it. I think that this is a tick that was feasting on my dog and it had its fill and let go. It looks just like a smooth river stone but it has legs. I gave both the cat and the dog flea/tick collars and a treatment of anti-tick juice (I don't know what it is really called) from the Vet. This is the worst year for ticks that I've experienced in the 8 years that I've lived here.

One of my dogs got one of them little buggers last month. We just bout some liquid at PetSmart that you apply to the back of their necks (I have 2 dogs and 2 cats). Over the next two days, we found a few dead ticks around the house...yuck! Thankfully, we seem to have zapped 'em all.

Ugh. OK, now I'm not hungry any more.

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Ugh. OK, now I'm not hungry any more.

Yech, me neither.

you shoulda called this guy




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We live on the edge of parkland so there are tons of ticks here. The only tick collars that work are the tickarrest and preventic collars. The contain amitraz which does not come with other collars. Preventic is only available from vets. None of the "flea and tick collars" work.

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good to know. our cats are indoors only, but as foster parents for the local shelter, we get asked a lot of general questions by new pet parents.

Why did I read this right before eating dinner...ugh, gawd.

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Nice picture of it you got there. Going to the store to get some deep woods off.

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We call those "Seed Ticks" around here. This is the worst year I've ever seen for ticks too. I
use Advantage on house cat for flea but try to keep Snowie the outside dog with aflea and
tick collar and keep dusted with either Sevin dust or regular flea and tick powder, about the
same thing. Anyone try any of the sprays you connect to a garden hose and spray around
the house that's suppose to cut down on fleas and ticks?

[www.bayeradvanced.com]

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Does anybody have any freaking idea of what purpose the existence of these things serves?
Alas, another argument for a random universe.

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And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Western Massachusetts

birds need a snack food that bursts with juicy goodness in their beaks?

I'm still pissed at Noah for the whole mosquito thing. Sheesh, what was he thinking.....?



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Are you in marketing, Racer?

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And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Western Massachusetts

We used to have two big Rhodesian Ridgebacks that lived mostly outside. We were forever getting those things off them. We even had a special "tick rock" that we kept on the fence post. Three guesses what the "tick rock" was used for.

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Roswell, GA (Atlanta suburb)

I was at Grandma's in Northern Minnesota and got a burrowing tick. She yanked out a knife and did surgery. I passed out. Long time ago.

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Da Good Life

Still cracks me up:

God: Noah! Thou shalt build thyself an ark, measuring 300 cubits in length!
Noah: [Jotting this down with a jumbo marker] 300 cubits, give or take.
God: Exactly 300! And thou shalt taketh two of every creature!
Noah: [Writing it down] Two creatures.
God: Two of every creature!
Noah: Even stink beetles?
God: Especially stink beetles!



blooz, these are parasites. As with any other organism, they don't really have a "purpose", other than self-preservation and continuation of their own species. (In the greater sense, their major purpose is probably to weed out the weaker members of the species they feed upon-- in the same way that predators weed out the weaker members of a prey species.)

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I guess that means your dog is half watchdog....




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It only has ticks.

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I know what nightmare I'm having tonight...

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I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making
him carry me, and yet assure myself and others
that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his
lot by all possible means — except by getting off
his back. - Leo Tolstoy, novelist and Philosopher
(1828-1910)

Keep a few chickens in the house and they'll eat all the ticks, right off the dogs.

Of course then you have a lot of chickensh!t to clean up.

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Does anybody have any freaking idea of what purpose the existence of these things serves?

This will widen the discussion: so what is the purpose of our existence then? Are we somehow better than ticks?

blooz wrote: Does anybody have any freaking idea of what purpose the existence of these things serves?

voodoopenguin wrote: This will widen the discussion: so what is the purpose of our existence then? Are we somehow better than ticks?

That is the exact response my wife had to that question.

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yikes that tick is scary. the downside(s) to pet ownership.

birds need a snack food that bursts with juicy goodness in their beaks?

OMFG! Cracked me up!

I still like this convo better:

Noah: "God?"
God: "Yes, Noah?"
Noah: "What's a 'cubit'?"

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I am that Masked Man.

All you can do, is all you can do.

There’s trouble — it's time to play the sound of my people.

Your boos mean nothing to me, I've seen what you cheer for.

Insisting on your rights without acknowledging your responsibilities isn’t freedom, it’s adolescence.

I've been to the edge of the map, and there be monsters.

We are a government of laws, not men.

Everybody counts or nobody counts.

When a good man is hurt,
all who would be called good
must suffer with him.

You and I have memories longer than the road that stretches out ahead.

There is no safety for honest men except
by believing all possible evil of evil men.

We don’t do focus groups. They just ensure that you don’t offend anyone, and produce bland inoffensive products. —Sir Jonathan Ive

An armed society is a polite society.
And hope is a lousy defense.

You make me pull, I'll put you down.

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