I just found this on my dog.

[Jojo87]

Don't know if you are familiar with this nasty little creatures. They are called Acari or mites. They are coming on humans and pets. Earlier tonight I found one of these on my dog. We have a special forceps to take them off. They bite the skin and stay there until they are removed. I got a injection couple of years ago for protection from them. The dogs got medicine so that they are protected against Acari. We gave dogs their medicine shortly after we had removed it. I have heard that some of these can have Lyme disease. It's pretty dangerous if a human it's bitten by a Acar that carry it. I have also heard that people can die of it. So it's nothing to play with.

 

[Neesy]

Don't know if you are familiar with this nasty little creatures. They are called Acari or mites. They are coming on humans and pets. Earlier tonight I found one of these on my dog. We have a special forceps to take them off. They bite the skin and stay there until they are removed. I got a injection couple of years ago for protection from them. The dogs got medicine so that they are protected against Acari. We gave dogs their medicine shortly after we had removed it. I have heard that some of these can have Lyme disease. It's pretty dangerous if a human it's bitten by a Acar that carry it. I have also heard that people can die of it. So it's nothing to play with.

We call them ticks up where I live and the picture you show (to me) looks like a tick engorged with blood - yuck! And yes you can get diseases from them! (poor doggy!)

 

[Chuggs]

We've got tons of ticks like these in Arkansas during the warm months. Lime disease is about the worst thing I've heard of from these little buggers. I hate them all the same...make you itch like crazy!

 

[Jojo87]

We call them ticks up where I live and the picture you show (to me) looks like a tick engorged with blood - yuck! And yes you can get diseases from them! (poor doggy!)

Yeah ticks sounds more reasonable. I wasn't sure what you call them over there or if you even have them.

 

[Neesy]

Yeah ticks sounds more reasonable. I wasn't sure what you call them over there or if you even have them.

I pulled one off myself once with just my bare fingers but I was pretty freaked out at the time. This was in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia and it was a black tick - maybe they are different colours in different provinces?

 

[arista]

We call those little bugger ticks here in Indiana. They are nothing to mess around with disease wise. They can carry Lyme disease and plus they continue to draw blood on the animal. We remove them by taking tweezers or taking a match head and putting next the tick.

 

[Walter Oobleck]

In the U.P. I think only the deer tick carries lyme disease...still, nasty little buggers not much larger than the head of a pin legs extra. There's quite a variety of them. Wood ticks probably most common and hard to kill. I've been home from poking around out in the bush...hour two three later...sitting on the couch and feel something crawling on me. Death by fire seems best. Impale with a pin.

 

[Riot87]

OMG man you managed to find like the only crawlie i am scared of!

 

[Neesy]

OMG man you managed to find like the only crawlie i am scared of!

Your scorpions might make short work of him - do they eat bugs? (shudder)

 

[Jojo87]

I pulled one off myself once with just my bare fingers but I was pretty freaked out at the time. This was in Cornwallis, Nova Scotia and it was a black tick - maybe they are different colours in different provinces?

I could never pull it off myself with bare fingers. OK maybe if there wouldn't be any other choice than to pull it off with bare fingers. My sister's teacher died last year of Lyme disease.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

One of my daughters got Lyme disease from a deer tick 2 summers ago. And we had her checked immediately after finding the bugger upon return from GS camp (can you believe they wouldn't allow anyone to have bug spray with deet!!! I guess getting Lyme disease is soooo much better than some minsicual problems one could get from the causual use of deet in a product. ). She went on the antibiotics but still developed heart problems as an effect of the Lyme disease (top of heart not communicating correctly with bottom of heart), and will live with it for the rest of her life. Doctors said they're now finding so many diverse and serious medical problems attributed with Lyme disease.

 

[Riot87]

Your scorpions might make short work of him - do they eat bugs? (shudder)

Lol i feed mine crickets and millworms but idk if they would eat one of those probably too small.

 

[Neesy]

I could never pull it off myself with bare fingers. OK maybe if there wouldn't be any other choice than to pull it off. My sisters teacher died last
year of Lyme disease.

Well this was in Basic Training in 1980 and I had just got out of the Recruit Pool (swimming). I found it on my butt cheek (sorry!) when I went to the Ladies Room and was so shocked I just acted instinctively. Then I crushed that little bugger on the toilet tank using a piece of cardboard from a toilet paper roll. (Sorry for graphic details!)

But I am still here to talk about it today(hehehe)

 

[DiO'Bolic]

I could never pull it off myself with bare fingers. OK maybe if there wouldn't be any other choice than to pull it off with bare fingers. My sister's teacher died last year of Lyme disease.

I’ve done it many a time on myself as I live in the country. The trick is to get them out whole and not leave the head in the skin. Grab the suckers with a tweezers and use sloooow and firm pulling pressure. Got to be patient getting them out.

 

[Lepplady]

Yup. That looks like a tick to me.
Be careful pulling 'em out. Grab it with tweezers or tissue and pull it straight out. Don't jerk or twist it though. You might leave the head attached to or under the skin. GROSS! Then always, always wash the area well, whether it's on a person or a pet.

 

[Lepplady]

I think we both said that at the same time. LOL!

 

[Jojo87]

I've also heard that if you burn them, they die. If you flush them down in a toilet they can still crawl back. Don't know if it's just stories, but the best way
is to burn them to death. We did that today with the tick we found on my dog.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

Oh yeah, according to the doctors I've dealth with, it is a misconception you only get Lyme disease from a deer tick. You can get it from any type of tick. Don't know what the truth really is, but that's what they told me.

 

[Riot87]

Yea thats what my man did was burn it^^ we found one of those on our dog last summer.

 

[not_nadine]

A cotton ball soaked in alcohol pressed on it will smother it and you can get it off.

Uck. Talk to your vet and get some medicine to prevent them..