And I am not talking about the really cool cartoon either.
I started housesitting for my bosses last evening. Generally I like housesitting for them … middle of nowhere house, satellite, big screen television … but now things are a little different. It’s summer and their dog has become a total tick magnet. They have this yard that surround by a field that got lots of tall grass. It’s the perfect place to come in contact with ticks. Needless to say, they have been treating him with Frontline® or Advantage® or something like that, but that doesn’t stop him from being a transporter of ticks. Last night, I crawled into bed and not a minute later felt something crawling on my leg. Yup. It was a tick and eneded up being the first of four that I pulled off of my body last night. Fortunately they were just crawling and not “latching and feeding.” Today has been awful so far. Not nearly enough sleep and I have the added bonus of feeling like ticks are crawling all over me.
Now, I am generally not freaked out by bugs … but (goddamn) if those little fuckers (ticks, that is) don’t give me the willies with their feeding and engorging and disease and sucking of my blood.
Oh, just think of it as your own private little vampire horror film, and you’ll be happy!!
Ummmm, no! At least with vampires you get “Eternal Life” and not “Lyme Disease.”
That’s interesting, sometimes I think of crawling on you, sucking and engorging.
Oh, Homer! Something tells me THAT would be an entirely different situation …
oh oh oh oh – i am SO totally skeeved!!! i told you about my recent dog park experience, right? they had finally mowed the tall grass that morning, and I pulled TWO ticks off the dogs (one each). And the one on Cooper HAD latched on.
But–Jesus–If I found one in bed with me, I’d’ve been OUT of there. Let the house get robbed. (Come to think of it, I *have* been in bed with a tick or two in my time… Just not the bugs.)
OK, that was funnier in my head.
I’ve been told that the best way to remove a tick is to light a match and to put it close to there backside this way they will unattach themselves. If you just pull them off you have a chance of only pulling off the bodies and leaving the head still stuck under the skin.
Just a little helpful advice just in case.