| Re: Tick bites!
Don't ordinary insect repellents work to keep them off in the first place? I've never had a tick on me (touch wood etc) but then I always wear insect repellent as I'm a magnet for everything that bites. Particularly those dry grass Harvest Mites, Trombicula autumnalis.
I've removed ticks from animals by anaesthetising them (the ticks, not the ready-meals) to make them relax their hold, then pulling them gently away with tweezers, head and all. It is difficult to get chloroform but meths applied on a cotton wool pad works. Don't smoke at the same time though, as wholesale cremation is inadvisable.
Maybe alcohol works, too - now there's a subject worthy of experimentation ...
As for dogs and cats, as suggested above, the decent spot-on flea treatments (which have so transformed pet ownership) also proof against ticks.
And I do hope you don't have Lyme Disease. Let us all know if anything develops! |