Last night at 2am I am ready to call it quits and go sleep when I notice a tick under my dog's fur. So I google away and get my tools ready.
A comb, alcohol (Listerine), tweezers, germolene cream and gloves (ok actually a sandwhich bag because i don't have surgical gloves)
Now I'm not going to act all mucho I must admit It was disgusting and gross! I was pretty freaked out. I was squirming like a little girl! So I rub this thing anti-clockwise like the many sites recommeded. After 5 minutes this tick is still firmly attached so that wasn't helping. Then I pinched the skin elevating the little beast and shaking like a leaf put the tweezers in place ready for the swipe. Then gently as close to the skin as possible I closed the tweezers and pulled the bugger off. With some force he was firmly attached.
After that he fell on the floor and started walking around. I applied germolene cream and got the dog out the bathroom. Put the tick in an empty container and poured in listerine mouth wash. He was at the bottom of the pool
for about 5 minutes but I it wouldn't die. Its was just so big that I was muffed out by squashing it. I wrapped it in a couple layers of toilet paper and layed it on the floor. Didn't want to have it's blood and guts everywhere and so I stepped on it with a super stomp. Then flushed it down the toilet.
In the process I washed me hands about 5 times and moped the bathroom floor twice.
I know im probably sounding like a big girl about the whole thing but it was really gross! Disgusting creature it freaked me out. This is what it looked like:
About double the size of a pea.
The people who stayed in the place we just moved into were dirty, really dirty! We had to paint the whole house inside while moving just to get the place clean! The garden was neglected in the past 2 months prior to us moving in and so it looked like a jungle. The garden did get cut down and trimmed etc but im presuming this is the source of the little bugger.
A comb, alcohol (Listerine), tweezers, germolene cream and gloves (ok actually a sandwhich bag because i don't have surgical gloves)
Now I'm not going to act all mucho I must admit It was disgusting and gross! I was pretty freaked out. I was squirming like a little girl! So I rub this thing anti-clockwise like the many sites recommeded. After 5 minutes this tick is still firmly attached so that wasn't helping. Then I pinched the skin elevating the little beast and shaking like a leaf put the tweezers in place ready for the swipe. Then gently as close to the skin as possible I closed the tweezers and pulled the bugger off. With some force he was firmly attached.
After that he fell on the floor and started walking around. I applied germolene cream and got the dog out the bathroom. Put the tick in an empty container and poured in listerine mouth wash. He was at the bottom of the pool
for about 5 minutes but I it wouldn't die. Its was just so big that I was muffed out by squashing it. I wrapped it in a couple layers of toilet paper and layed it on the floor. Didn't want to have it's blood and guts everywhere and so I stepped on it with a super stomp. Then flushed it down the toilet. In the process I washed me hands about 5 times and moped the bathroom floor twice.
I know im probably sounding like a big girl about the whole thing but it was really gross! Disgusting creature it freaked me out. This is what it looked like:
The people who stayed in the place we just moved into were dirty, really dirty! We had to paint the whole house inside while moving just to get the place clean! The garden was neglected in the past 2 months prior to us moving in and so it looked like a jungle. The garden did get cut down and trimmed etc but im presuming this is the source of the little bugger.
