When someone looks at you and squeals EEEEEEEW! it's never a good thing. And if the next thing you hear is What's that on your HEAD!?!, be a little worried. I didn't know any of this until yesterday. Until I got my first tick. On my head.
After apologizing for EEEEW-ing at me, my human removed the critter with a pair of tweezers and explained why, aside from being gross, having a tick on your head (or anywhere else) is a bad thing.
Ticks suck your blood. They can lay eggs that hatch billions of new little blood-suckers that'll come into the world hungry. But worst of all, they can transmit disease. A whole bunch of diseases actually, and some of them can kill you.
Depending on where you live, the ticks in your area can carry germs that cause:
- lyme
- babesiosis
- erlichia
- rocky mountain spotted fever
- tick paralysis
- tick fever (canine anaplasmosis)
Probably a good idea since I like to sleep on my human's head and ticks like to suck human blood too.
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Did it hurt? Poor thing.
Mommy is always worried about me getting a tick when we go hiking, she drags me out of the high grass. I think she's getting me vaccinated for the lyme disease soon, because we go hiking a lot.
How did the tick look like. Did you eat it?
-Ody
Yeah, we go hiking a lot too. And I LOVE running in the tall grass!
I never got to see the ticky. My human squashed it & flushed it, just in case. Don't think it was as big as the one in today's photo though.
Thank GOd.
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