Anyone else hate TICKS as much as me????

[Morning Dove]

Well, I can understand about poisonous snakes, but my main issue is that you called them evil. Lucky for me, poisonous snakes are very rare where I live, but that doesn't stop some of my ex co workers from bragging about running any snake over with their lawnmowers.....

Dove

 

[Ugly Cowboy]

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LOL Thats what I thought... Poor guy!

 

[ChickaD]

Wow! That's what we get for putting up with snow and 30 other unpleasant kinds of precipitation: the poisonous snakes don't like the cold stuff up here either!

 

[ChickenTender63]

It is my opinion that they are evil and have had to try and live with them my entire life, and it just doesn't work.

I do though, respect your opinion and in no way, am I trying to change your opinion of them. We will all believe what we believe, and move forward.

 

[Picky Chicky]

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I have a phobia over any type of parasites... any critter that lives off of something else. For the longest time I couldn't look at lobsters because of the barnacles that can sometimes be found on them - have you ever looked at those things up close? Naaasty! <<shudder>>

I've got the heebie jeebies now.

 

[Ugly Cowboy]

Ya know what? I've been a major outdoorsman my whole life, and I aint never been bit by a tick... Aint that strange?

 

[Jenski]

baldie and Ugly Cowboy, you have stumbled upon the great Murphy's Law of Ticks: Ticks infest people in direct proportion to the person's loathing for them.

 

[poussin_noir]

Never really gave ticks any thought until I was bit this spring and became very sick. Long story short it's Lymes disease and I wouldn't wish it upon my worst enemy.
Can't say I lie ticks at all now.

 

[Portia]

We have a mast crop of ticks this year

I can't walk into the woods without bringing a few out with me, and the dogs...wow! My dogs are on frontline plus, but I still worry about them, and us as one of our dogs has already gotten Lymes. And yeah, it freaks me out a bit when I find ticks in the house, which is not necessarily uncommon. I went to the local farm store and bought Permathrin (sp?) that I mix into a spray bottle at 10% strength. This can be sprayed on clothing and the dogs to deter ticks...its the same stuff that they put in Advantax and that you can buy at camping/hunting stores. It does seem to work, there have been many less ticks in the house.

As for the chickens...they LOVE ticks!

 

[SandraMort]

I was driving to the train to pick up my sister from the train station and noticed a tick on my knee. Later that day, I went into labor, but that tick is the most vivid memory of the whole day that I went into labor (he was born the next day)! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEW!!!!!!!!!!!