I thought it look like deer tick, but not sure as I never saw one this huge. the one I found is 9mm long right now.
Posted by seibertneurolyme (Member # 6416) on :
Go to goggle and type in the words - deer tick engorged.
What comes up looks like your picture.
Bea Seibert
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
I bet it takes a long time to get smaller. I'd never find out because it would be DEAD way before then.
Posted by LisaK (Member # 41384) on :
I think I am wanting to torture it also along with watching it shrink. my revenge. is that twisted?
I will google it Seibert, but I don't know all ticks, so I thought I'd ask here. I was not thinking.
Posted by LisaK (Member # 41384) on :
I googled. it must be me, but to find a site that has a photo with a name took a few pages. and to look at all those digusting things was draining.
I think it is a dog tick.
Posted by lpkayak (Member # 5230) on :
Why does it matter what kind it is? They all carry bugs...so do skeeters and fleas and biting flies etc etc etc
Posted by TNT (Member # 42349) on :
Put that ugly devil in a little glass jar and then let your imagination take over. Or, try to find a tiny little hose to put over it's mouth and fill it with your choice of liquid chemicals.
Or you could dissect it and see what pathogens it may have picked up by looking at the blood under a good microscope.
All kinds of possible science projects here....
(I usually take the unattached ones we find and wrap them in a napkin and light it on fire. If they have had a meal, they explode like a little pressure canner. The ones that were attached go straight in the freezer for any future reference).
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
quote:Originally posted by lpkayak: Why does it matter what kind it is? They all carry bugs...
- Very true.
Posted by LisaK (Member # 41384) on :
kayak, I wanted to know becasuse it looks so different from any other I have seen.
and I am just the curious type. I like to know answers.
TNT- so you can freeze them for future scientific reasons? I would be afraid they would get somehow caught up in my frozen peas or something and we would eat them! OH MY!
I have been searching a little on dog ticks. seems a lot of stuff out there says they don't carry what the others so and that you needn't worry about your dog having them@!
well, I am not stupid. I am sure they carry something, but I couldn't find a site that came out an dsaid it. I cannot search endlessly. I have a terrible migraine and can barely get through this thread
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
We are still finding a few on our dogs in spite of the sub zero temperatures outside.
When I find one engorged I carefully remove it with a hemostat.
March it over to the blazing wood fireplace.
And toss it in with a big smile on my face.
My husband thinks I'm a ghoul because I've been know to light them up with a torch and have been known to devise slow demises for them.
Hey, if they hurt me, and they have....
Seriously though, if they are engorged, they have fed. The question is on whom have they dined?
If you have pets and are in a cold climate that could be the answer.
If no pets then look yourselves over really well. If you were dined upon, that tick will have left a mark on you of some sort.
Posted by LisaK (Member # 41384) on :
right Nemo. I asked all kids to check themselves and they sadi they have no rash, but they are older teens and roll thier eye at me an d who knows if they really checked and they are to obig for me to hold down and do it myself .
this is a week and the giant fat pig is still so big! I don't know why I am so intrigued by this one. I am starting to pity it. this is not good
Posted by lpkayak (Member # 5230) on :
Guys...cmon. does it really help to hate and torture ticks? Do you think they planned this?
Focus that evil energy at those really to blame
Those making money on our misery
Those messing with bugs for bio warfare
Theres plenty of places to put the blame
Posted by lpkayak (Member # 5230) on :
Its hard for me to really see that tick but it looks like deer tick to me
Posted by lpkayak (Member # 5230) on :
I just put them in zip lock bag and magnet it to the fridge. It takes weeks for them to die. I dont remember the engorgrd ones getting much smaller
I look at them when i start to think im not really sick...when i start to believe docs who say i cant have lyme cuz i had 3 yrs of abx 15 yrs ago...and i know those docs are just plain stupid
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
Also doesn't matter how cold it is outside as long as they have a warm body to cling to!
Posted by lpkayak (Member # 5230) on :
And dont flush them ... they crawl back up
Posted by TNT (Member # 42349) on :
lol, lpkayak, it looks like you enjoy torturing them, too. You just like to put on more of a show, and torture it longer, he he.
I don't know of any good reason for the existence of those little suckers. They are just evil!
Posted by LisaK (Member # 41384) on :
I put them in a baggy too. hate to say, but dog had 5 ticks we found recently. I let her tick collar run out and forgot to replace it!
when I put them in a ziplock bag they die in a few days. that is why I put this one in a jar. I never saw one like it before that I rememebr. it is not a deer tick. I have seen many of those in my life.
I am not sure what I will do to it once I am done watching it. haven't thought about it. I don't like to be cruel, but there is no humane way to kill a tick, is there? I mean they are so indestructable.??
anyway, I am pretty sure I am reinfected. How could I not be?? and my kids? my daughter just house sit for 2 dogs while owners went away! it is a lost hope. so tired of it all.
one step forwad, 5 steps back. that is my life!
Posted by lpkayak (Member # 5230) on :
I dont like to toture them. Without air they they just go to sleep. If theres no mousture then they fall apart. I had a scientist friend who stdied bugs his house got infested wit bees. Every morning there were hundreds at pic window trying to get out. To kill them humanely they vacummed them and put bag in freezer. Natural way for them to die. Just go to sleep
But my experience with ticks is if you freeze them they wake up when they get warm
I never flushed one...but i read someone did and later saw them crawling back
Posted by lpkayak (Member # 5230) on :
I dont fish with worms either
Posted by lookup (Member # 44574) on :
I used to work on a cattle ranch when I was 18. Once a year we would work the cattle - clean their ears out with a wire loop made from a wire coat hanger. Their ears were full of ticks. The ticks were tapped off the wire loop onto a metal barrel head. By the end of the day there would be a big heap of disgusting, squirming ticks. Then they'd squirt lighter fluid on them and burn them. No one was too fussed about getting bitten.
Posted by LisaK (Member # 41384) on :
wowza lookup!!!
yucko. and all that beef with tick disease???? I know people that eat raw meats and fish. I feel so sad for them . they're all infected for sure!
my dad was a hunter so I saw dead animals all the time. he killed mice whenever he could, would find them while chopping wood. and he would annualy cut down caterpillar nests from the trees and burn them . the 'bad ' type of moths they were.
I feel bad even swatting a fly most of the time. we had a rat in our garage and I still feel guilty that we killed it, but when I think of the diseases it prob had and the threat to my kids..... well, it's me or them. when it comes to that I have no problem doing it , but always with some saddness.
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