nothing like a bug on your pet to give a city girl the willies

[bertha katzenengel]

Tick. Full. Fell off. :scared:

No, not :scared: -- :puke: and AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Finally picked up their Revolution today. Three cats treated, five to go.

[purr]

1. Revolution is good stuff..

ONLY treatment I'll put on my girls.

[bertha katzenengel]

5. VERY good stuff. And very expensive.

Enough for eight cats for three months: over $250. (We have finally learned to say no.)

[purr]

14. I noticed with one treatment

I can go about 6 months.. Then the dog ruins my streak :)

[Mutley]

2. eeewww

my dog has never had ticks... but she gets fleas something FIERCE every summer.

Did i say 'something fierce'? where the hell did that come from?

[bertha katzenengel]

4. I'll tell you where it came from:

I said "city girl" and it clearly evoked something country in you.... :shrug:

What part of the U.S./world (never assume) do you live in?

[Mutley]

18. Balitmore

and the CITY of Baltimore, too. In fact, right downtown. I don't know where the country came from. And yes, I do plan to come to your meet up if you're still planning to have it.

[bertha katzenengel]

20. I'm glad you'll be here. It's still on.

:bounce:

[Mutley]

23. excellent!

[neuvocat]

3. I saw my first tick the other day.

It was on someone's dog but I managed to remove it. Maybe that wasn't the best thing to do but I wasn't sure it was going to stay there forever either (I may be wrong but I heard that could happen).

[bertha katzenengel]

6. I don't think it's ever bad to remove a tick, long as you get it all.

I don't think ticks are there forever though; I think it's some other bug. :shrug: What do I know: I'm a city girl. :hi:

[Sugar Smack]

7. Hey, Bertha!

:hi:

Was there a bald patch around what you thought might be a tick? It may have been a flea, and your sweetie's allergic. A skin condition can erupt, causing inflammation. In that case, your baby just needs a shot.

A surefire way to remove ticks fully is to flame the end of a pair of tweezers, grab the offending tick and *flush*.

[bertha katzenengel]

8. thanks for the tweezers tip, SS, I can use it in the future

I'm sure it was a tick. Extremely sure. It's hard to mistake a gray M&M-sized thing with tiny wiggling legs for a flea. uuugggghhhhhh

:hi:

[Sugar Smack]

12. Well, the jaws of the tick'll unhinge if you burn it.

No squeamishness now here, lady!

I'd also *ahem* love to introduce you to my little Sophie, when she was just a handful.



I'm glad if I could help.

[bertha katzenengel]

19. Sophie is beautiful.

Thanks for the photo.

[TheMightyFavog]

9. That's nothing..

A few years back, one of our barn cats had bot fly larvae under her skin. The warbles got infected and got so bad that they nearly killed the poor kitty. (She holed up in a place that was hard to get, that's why she did not get treated right away.) She's healthy now.
BTW, this is what the warbles look like on squirrels...

http://botfly.ifas.ufl.edu/wrbwk2/wrbwk2a.htm




Looking at her now, you would not know that she underwent this ordeal...

[Zuni]

10. ahhh...that is awful

glad your cat is alright

[bertha katzenengel]

11. she's beautiful

and thanks for the heads-up.

look at her, picking up her paw to say hello! :loveya:

[Deja Q]

13. Oh crumbs. I was thinking of a different type of 'willies'...

:spank: Oh me and my love of British slang... :D :spank:

[TheProphetess]

15. Yuck! This city girl can't handle ticks either

I found a really big one filled with blood on my dog once.
They are terribly gross!!

[Sugar Smack]

16. Here's Sophie:

gotta show her danged cute picture!

[Misunderestimator]

17. Growing up in the country... I used to smash those things between my

thumbnails after picking them off the dog. I wouldn't do that now... uh uh... no way! :puke:

[geniph]

21. Try getting one on the back of your own neck

...and trying to get your overly-squeamish spouse to help get it off you before it gives you a disease.

Damn bushwhacking backpacking trips, anyway!

[bertha katzenengel]

22. Don't ask your spouse "baby, what is this thing?" if she's not wearing her

glasses. I had one on my hip (okay, my ass) and asked her at bedtime. She said it was a mole. I didn't remember having a mole there. I went to the doc and learned it was a tick. :shrug: From my own back yard. I should've paid attention when I thought I felt something crawling up my leg.

Did the spouse finally remove it from your neck? :scared:

[geniph]

24. Nope, I had to do it myself

ticks are icky. I am not a fan of bloodsuckers!