Rant. Ticks..hate them , creepy, aahhhh

[Shanti]

Just pulled the first tick, of the season, out of my daughters head. AAAHHH I get so creeped out!!!!

I love nature and all thats in it and know all has a purpose but I REALLY HATES TICKS.

Major HATE THEM!!!

Living in the country makes anti tick precautions not practical.
Wear long pants...ya right in the heat and I'm gonna bake us all!! And thats great when we go swimming..long pants, sure.

Use repellent, sure gallons of it all day and thats handy to when we swim in our pool!( a cheap blow up but hey its fun)! Repellants feel good on bare skin in the heat too!!! And theres toxic stuff that works but I dont want poison in my yard, house and on us. And then theres the safe stuff...so useless!!!

Hey spray the acres here and kill all the arthropods!! Give me a break.

Heck its tick season and they are everywhere!!!!!!

Time for parinioa and freaking out and rural is great but the ticks can leave now........The creatures nightmares are made of.

Oh wow I just realized Shanti has a thing that really screws her up.

No logic, not rational I dont care ...pariniod yes...maybe I'll find every one in our area and burn them all:devil:. Die ticks DIE and stay off my kids and me...yuk...gross, creepy yuk yuk yuk yuk yuk!!!!!!!!!!!!! And YUK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do I feel better now? NO. YUK!!!!!!

[Caliburn]

hah, i love nature as much as the next guy but...there are just some creatures with no practical point in life...sure, annoying bugs exssit to feed frogs, but why do those bugs have to annoy US in the process!?

[Old Witch]

Well, I guess now is not a good time to mention Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever and my personal favorite Lyme Disease........Hubby had Lyme Disease and you have complications the rest of your life from that!

Kill all ticks!

[Faery-Wings]

Ick. I hate ticks too. Anf for some reason, so matter how much garbage (spray, lotions, etc) I put on my kids, they still end up withthem. Both kids have had them starting to embed. *shivers and cringes* Two for my daughter and one for my son. Plus, Cait says she was bit by one, I saw the "bite" but no tick. And then she had one crawling on her pj's another night. Kinda like the imaginary one crawling on my leg right now.

:sick:

[Nighthawk]

Bad ticks.... bad

[Tsuchimaru]

I've never seen a tick before. They're not that common where I live, although I know they're around....

[magick186]

Ewwwww. ticks are gross! I wouldn't mind if cockroaches disappeared either.

[LadyTrinity]

One summer my family went camping while I went with a now ex boyfriend of mine to his fathers boat. Turns out I was the lucky one. Everyone who went camping in tents had tick bites all over. I guess a friend's hubby said he was pulling them out of his skin EWWW! :sick:

[Ravens_Tears]

:hugz: I sympathize... I pulled a icky one out of my own hair last night.. Ick!
:ugh: :blushake:

[Faeawyn]

Don't have much of a problem with them here either. But growing up in North Carolina and running around the woods like a wild child, my sister and I used to get them frequently. I still remember my dad lighting a match and sticking the match head to our heads :yikes: eeeegads I hated that :wah:

[Tzhebee]

I sooooo feel for you, Shanti! I just pulled one from my daughters head Friday. they creep me out too. My mom (who watches the kids before and after school) lives in the country with outdoor dogs and horses...so ticks can be a real problem for us....ewwww.

Ticks and spiders....no thank you!

[Amethyst Rose]

Yay for Alberta, a tick free province! (Too cold for too much of the year for them to survive here).

However, when we moved to the Caribbean I was totally unprepared for ticks. I didn't have my dog protected and for a while we were pulling ticks off of him (on his neck and in between his toes, two different kinds, soft and hard bodied), every couple of days for a month . Then he got tick fever, and got really sick. We wisened up quickly after that and started giving him pesticides.

Anyway, I would find these huge ticks climbing up our walls..... uhg...still gives me the shivers just thinking about it. :blushake:

[Cinnamon Girl]

I HATE TICKS! :flamer: :uzi:

My husband and I spend a lot of time in the woods - geocaching, camping, hiking - and we are constantly pulling those buggers off us, no matter what precautions we take.

We do tick checks on each other periodically :fpoke: but then, that has it's good points. :deviltail:





Edited for silly smilie typo

[Ravens_Tears]

Don't have much of a problem with them here either. But growing up in North Carolina and running around the woods like a wild child, my sister and I used to get them frequently. I still remember my dad lighting a match and sticking the match head to our heads :yikes: eeeegads I hated that :wah:

There is a kinder way to remove them... smother them in vaseline. They can't breath and they'll back out!

[Amethyst Rose]

Actually, that's a wives tale. Ticks can actually go for days (or hours, can't remember exactly) without breathing, so this isn't really effective. (Incidently, I have tried it and it didn't work.)

[Ravens_Tears]

It's always worked for me :)

[ckynes1968]

I can handle insects and spiders but...ticks...YUCK!

My daugher had Lyme disease at the age of two. Deer ticks bite and then fall off - if she didn't have the classic bullseye - we would have never known.

We joke now that she is a tick magnet - Both of the girls can be outside together and only Becky will have ticks crawling on her.

After I find one on her - I feel "buggy" for hours. I hate ticks!

[Boogins]

Yay for Alberta, a tick free province! (Too cold for too much of the year for them to survive here).

However, when we moved to the Caribbean I was totally unprepared for ticks. I didn't have my dog protected and for a while we were pulling ticks off of him (on his neck and in between his toes, two different kinds, soft and hard bodied), every couple of days for a month . Then he got tick fever, and got really sick. We wisened up quickly after that and started giving him pesticides.

Anyway, I would find these huge ticks climbing up our walls..... uhg...still gives me the shivers just thinking about it. :blushake:
That's right, no ticks here! Just black widow spiders in our garage! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!

[Deranged Hermit]

Ticks are plentiful here. We put tick collars on the dogs last week. I used to be Totally freaked out by ticks, but I got over it. We don't really have any problems with disease here, so they're just a nuisance. And they only stick around for a month or 2, then they're gone. Now Mosquitoes on the other hand...

Hey Shanti, would Guineas be an option for you?

[Maurigan]

I sympathise with you all who have to deal with ticks, they are disgusting things.

I had never seen them before we came to South Africa, but here we have them in the summer months, I can protect the dog and cat to some degree with 'Frontline' drops but how can we protect ourselves from the ugly little blood sucking bugs?

My friend had tickbite fever last summer and she was really sick.

Shanti, you mention Lymes disease is that the correct name for tickbite fever and is there any way to avoid getting it if you are bitten? I really have no clue about it and I am dreading having to deal with them again.

any advice would be very welcome :)

[Sowelu]

Yep....

Every time I take the dogs down to the pond or creek, I end up sittin' there after we've returned picking ticks off them. We have ALOT of them here.
It's definately that time of year.

[Shanti]

I sympathise with you all who have to deal with ticks, they are disgusting things.

I had never seen them before we came to South Africa, but here we have them in the summer months, I can protect the dog and cat to some degree with 'Frontline' drops but how can we protect ourselves from the ugly little blood sucking bugs?

My friend had tickbite fever last summer and she was really sick.

Shanti, you mention Lymes disease is that the correct name for tickbite fever and is there any way to avoid getting it if you are bitten? I really have no clue about it and I am dreading having to deal with them again.

any advice would be very welcome :)
Lyme disease is a tick illness thst can actuall show very little symptoms, sometimes just a bullseye rash is the only sign, and sometimes no symtoms untill you have had it over time. You can develope arthritis and other problems from it. There is also various fever illnesses that ticks can carry. It all depends on the type of tick and your location as to what illnesses are active. In my area the only thing ticks carry is lyme disease.