Well on the 29th a cat wandered onto my deck, as we speak my brother is posting papers all over the place, so whoever lost it can get their cat back (no collar, it's no stray it's very very well groomed) anyway, I was petting the cat when all of a sudden I look in his food bowl (Neighbor who has a cat gave us some food for it) and notice a piece of food that doesn't look the same as the rest. It looks like a coffee bean, it's maybe a little bigger. So I don't want to pick it up, because it looks rubber like. So I pick it up with a toothpick instead. It stabs through it like a fork stabs through a sausage or something. I show my dad, and he says "uhh it's alive" "WHAT?!" I look at it, it looks like it has 8 legs and a small head painted on to it. They don't even stick out much..They are wiggling around! Is it a pregnant spider or something? I mean, it's not just part of the spider, it's the entire spider! IT's just this fat plasic like bean, with these little stubs on it. They dont even reach the ground. WTF is this. The wind blew it away and now I'm afraid it's going to hatch like 800 trillion babies...well maybe 798 trillion, It does have a bloody hole in it now :/ HELP ME! WHAT IS THIS?!

Sorry about the blurry pics, you can kind of see it's stubby arms...kind of..




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Originally posted by Elana14: i would love a dong like that!

[This message has been edited by SAJN_Master (edited April 30, 2004).]

It's called a tick. You haven't seen one before?

Something like this, right?
It means it's been feeding and it's full o' blöööd.

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I've just locked an open door. Strange, yet symbolically compelling!

Not just that, it's a full tick

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You've seriously never seen a tick before?

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GAH!!! I went upstairs to eat, then my brother goes out to pet the cat, he says "Is this a tick?" I think he found 2. Right after that I go downstairs and look at your posts. FREAKY! I bet that huge tick fell off the cat when he was eating!!! EWWWWW! I just took a really long shower.

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Originally posted by Elana14: i would love a dong like that!

I've seen a TICK ...just not a TICK



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Originally posted by Elana14: i would love a dong like that!

I find it strange that a full tick would be in the cats food dish. They don't just fall of unless they're dead.

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[This message has been edited by DogSRoOL (edited April 30, 2004).]

Uh? Really?

I thought they fell off when they've had their fill.

*shudders* I remember one time a few years ago when I was at our summer cabin by the lake. I was sweating in the sauna and I noticed I had one attached on my inner thigh. Gyah. Close call. They go for warm humid spots (armpits, crotch etc.). I burned that 'lil f***er right off.

Nope. My dog has had ticks a few times, and I'd never seen one just fall off. I'm too much of a pansy to just pull 'em off.

When they've had their fill, I think they just stop sucking, but stay attached.

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[This message has been edited by DogSRoOL (edited April 30, 2004).]

This things a** was the size of Julia Roberts lips, freaking huge, no way it could have stayed on, its freaking stubs for arms didnt reach past its jelly stomach.

EWWW TICKS ARE NASTY! I hate them. What if a tick was on a guy with HIV or something, then it gets on me or something. Bah, I like Summer weather, but I hate bugs! And I hate winder weather. I CANT WIN!!!!!

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Originally posted by Elana14: i would love a dong like that!

Ticks suck because you can't squish them unless they're full, and if you squish them when they're full, they go SPLAT. That's why you should use a knife.

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Why cant you squish them before they are full?

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Originally posted by Elana14: i would love a dong like that!

Ticks should be removed as soon as you see them. They are carriers of diseases like borelia, which neither you OR your dog want. The sonner you get rid of them, the better.

And they DO fall off when they're full.

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Mano you realize it's very rare for regular Wood Ticks to carry any type of disease? Deer ticks on the other hand..

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Is that a close up on someones skin or a carpet? Whatever it is, it's bloody.

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Originally posted by Elana14: i would love a dong like that!

meh, go walk in the woods in the summer
my comical moment came from that he didn't know what it was

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You know you've been playing computer and been inside too much...

When you've never seen a friggin' tick..

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pulling them off is a bad idea. However, just take a match, light it, blow it out, and quickly touch the still-hot end to the tick, and it should let go.

they are nasty little b@stards, to be sure.



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So exactly how do get a tick off of a cat? I tried putting some vaseline on it, but the cat wouldn't stay still enough for me to get a good look at it.

I think it's sand.

Also, I've never seen a tick. Only pictures.

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They're too flat. You can drop a lead brick on them and they just get up and walk away when you take it off.

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what he said

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The whole "ticks = disease" thing is blown way out of proportion... odds are, you probably dont have to worry about it. My dog gets ticks all the time whenever we take him for walks in the woods.

The lit match thing will get them off, also sometimes if you hold a paper towel that has been soaked in warm water, they will attach themselves to that instead. If you are really concerned, you can take the tick to a doctor or vet and usually they will test it for you.

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Right, but is it really a good idea to hold a lit match to a cat's throat or behind its ear?

Read a bit more carefully next time:

You light the match, put it out, and put the hot tip on the tick.

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Ticks clamp on with their teeth, not their feet, which is why even a full tick (like that lovely one Flirb posted) can be a pain to get off.

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There is no spoon.

And their sucker (or whatever it is) is hooked so you can't pull it straight out

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I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV.

and if you do yank hard with tweezers, you just pull the body off and the head just keeps grabbing you. To eliminate infection, oyu then have to dig the head out with a knife.

I found this out the hard way when I was camping once. I got a large tick on my arm, and I made the mistake of pulling it off. naturally, the head was still stuck. I had to take my pocketknife,heat it up in the fire to sterilize it, and then dig it out with that. After that, I had a small hole in my arm that took about a week and a half to completely heal over.

I definitely don't recommend this, people. Using the match is easier and hurts MUCH less, trust me.



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Your best bet is to hold the tip of a pin to a flame and use that..

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I've had ticks many times, just rub the area around it with pure alcohol, that'll paralyse the damn thing, so it gets off your arm with ease.

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god those are gross ive never seen a tick in real life lucky for me but i have watched misquotos fill up with blood on my arm thats an interesting site

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Putting something thick and sticky on them works too, like peanut butter. It forces them to pull their head out to breathe.

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You should never ever try to get rid of a tick with this matchstick-trick or with something sticky. Then they normaly "vomit" into you and are more likely to get a disease. Just pull it gently off with tweezers as close to the head as possible.

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Seconded.
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Yeah that's what we always do at my house...



I have no clue about the validity of that, so you may very well be entirely correct, but the logic behind using a heated pin-tip is that the heat causes them to let go, lessening the risk of having the body seperate from the head and cause an infection.

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