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16 May 2007

I found this bug today. I think it might be a brown dog tick. What do you think?
Yep. Most definitely a tick.

Not only that, but one that's been well fed recently.
posted by mudpuppie 16 May | 22:12
Great, an office with roaches and ticks. I'm getting the skin willies. So what should I do with it? I'd keep it, but then I'd have to feed it...
posted by youngergirl44 16 May | 22:20
Terminate, with extreme prejudice. Ticks are bad news.
posted by bmarkey 16 May | 22:21
You could set it free and disregard the next victim.

You could flush it.

You could smother it in Vaseline.

You could stomp on it and watch all the blood come out. (There will be blood. Second-hand blood.)

The last is the most gruesome, but probably the least painful for the tick.
posted by mudpuppie 16 May | 22:24
Smother it in Vaseline? WTF?

I was thinking about putting it in the freezer. As a cold-blooded creature, won't it just slow down until it dies with minimum pain?

It probably came off the boss's dogs - they're the only ones there all the time. I'd like to send an email to the people in my office to let them know, especially since people bring their dogs in on Fridays. I need to think of a way to word it so the boss's dogs don't sound bad. They're like his kids.
posted by youngergirl44 16 May | 22:39
If you find one of these buried in your skin, be careful about pulling it off - you need to make sure you don't leave the head buried in your skin or you can get a nasty infection.

Smothering it in Vaseline would probably suffocate it, I guess. Kind of the same effect as putting someone's head in a plastic bag and duct-taping it around their neck.

Stomp on it - unless you want to find it buried in your own hide someday.
posted by dg 16 May | 22:44
I'm thinking about it too much... I feel bad about smashing it. Or flushing it alive. I'll wait until the BF comes home and make him smash it.
posted by youngergirl44 16 May | 22:47
When you find one on yourself, that's what they tell you to do -- put vaseline on it. It smothers the thing, which makes it release its mouthparts. Then, like dg said, parts of it don't get stuck in you.

Since they guy's free range now, that's probably not necessary.

Just keep a real close eye on him.

What, did you bring him home in a shoebox??
posted by mudpuppie 16 May | 22:51
Aaah, the smothering.

In an empty asprin bottle, but yes, I brought her home. I didn't want to smash her at work without making sure she warranted smashing. Now I've taken pictures of her and I feel attached. Darn my inner love for bugs.
posted by youngergirl44 16 May | 22:59
You can do what I do with rats: Take her to a better neighborhood, set her loose, and tell yourself that she's going to have a good life tormenting people much richer than yourself.
posted by mudpuppie 16 May | 23:08
That is just evil, pup.


I knew I liked you for a reason.
posted by bmarkey 16 May | 23:13
One time, after hiking in Arkansas, I found several ticks on me. I thought I got them all but I found one stuck on my leg several days later. I tried to get a flame near it so it would release and start running but I must have just killed it instead. I ended up just pulling the thing off but when I did it's guts all came out and the shell was still stuck on my leg. I had a little mark there for several weeks but thankfully no more than that.

I hate ticks.
posted by puke & cry 16 May | 23:24
You can do what I do with rats: Take her to a better neighborhood, set her loose, and tell yourself that she's going to have a good life tormenting people much richer than yourself.


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