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This past weekend, my 6 year old, after coming in from playing, found a tick on her lower abdomen and yelled "TIIIIIIICK!!!!!
My husband and I quickly ran over and in this time she had brushed it off of her onto the floor.
Thank God it had not embedded itself, but it did start to nibble at her b/c there was a small mark.
None of the tick got into her thank God.
Anyway, I thought that you guys would appreciate the torture that my husband put the tick through b/c he is so angry at how a tick has changed our lives so much!
He got a toothpick and pierced the tick.
Then he took it to the sink and poured some bleach on it and it was STILL moving!!!
Then he sprayed some hairspray and window cleaner on it and it was STILL moving!!!
I thought...this just proves how tough those devils are!
For the grand finale, my husband burnt the tick with a cigarette lighter.
To some of you, this story may seem odd, I don't know?
But it felt good to torture one of them for once!...Just wanted to share.
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I bought a 12 pack (usually find this at the grocery store, or maybe even Target?) of small size glass Mason jars with lids. They are normally used for canning foods.
I bought this type of jar because you can get them for cheap, and in bulk and are easy to find at the store.
I bought some rubbing alcohol, which is also cheap.
I then poured the rubbing alcohol into a mason jar, put the lid on the jar, and used a Sharpie marker to write "TICK JAR" all around the lid and glass jar.
I keep this jar ready next to my tick remover tool in my garage. Can't stand the thought of keeping it in my house for some reason?!
When I find a tick on my cats (who are Frontlined) I remove the tick with my tool, which keeps the tick immobile while it's in the hook part of the tool, no chance of it getting out or off of the tool and dropping where I can't see it or find it.
I then put the tick remover tool directly into the rubbing alcohol in the mason jar, get the tick off the tool (not hard to do) and close the jar with the tight fitting lid.
I usually watch to see if the tick is alive or dead. If it's been attached to my cat(s) for longer than 2 days, it's always dead. But if I find one that's only been on the cat for a day or less, it's always alive. I have seen the alive ticks swim around in the rubbing alcohol for up to a day or more, but I rest assured that they cannot get out of my mason jar filled with alcohol!
I would never flush a tick down the potty, or handle it in any way, since this is risky. I also throw away my glass jar of ticks after I get 10 in the jar or it's been a few months of them sitting on my garage countertop.
Just think, if you flick a tick off your body, or grab it off with some tool (tweezers for instance) and it comes off the tweezers, or you drop it, and it's a pregnant female, you will have THOUSANDS of baby ticks crawling around wherever you lost/drop the tick at!
Food for thought . . .
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