Critters to look out for?

**Sarge47** · 08-02-2010, 07:02 PM

Originally Posted by Ken

And then disinfect the daylights out of the bite area. Scrub with a medicated cleanser (like Phisohex or Hibiclens) and then pour some alcohol over the area (it won't hurt ya' none) and then a bit of bleach (yeah', some folks say not to do this, but I do it) and then paint it with iodine or merthiolate.

Why?

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Lyme disease. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease

No guarantees, but it sure won't hurt to try.

Uh, Ken, is that your nipple? Oh....

**Justin Case** · 08-02-2010, 07:08 PM

LOL,,,, dang, Must be cold there !

**Batch** · 08-02-2010, 08:22 PM

Put a dab of oil on the tick. They breath through their *** and so let go quick.

**Rick** · 08-02-2010, 08:25 PM

Okay, okay. I call foul. You have to post a source for that. I'll buy that they can breathe underwater but not through their tush.

**Ken** · 08-02-2010, 08:44 PM

Originally Posted by Rick

Okay, okay. I call foul. You have to post a source for that. I'll buy that they can breathe underwater but not through their tush.

Why not? Lot's of folks talk through that orifice - why's it so hard to believe that tick's breathe through theirs?

**crashdive123** · 08-02-2010, 08:52 PM

Ticks breathe through spiracles, not their butt.

**Batch** · 08-02-2010, 08:58 PM

Originally Posted by Rick

Okay, okay. I call foul. You have to post a source for that. I'll buy that they can breathe underwater but not through their tush.

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**crashdive123** · 08-02-2010, 09:04 PM

Originally Posted by Batch

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Bad idea..

**Sarge47** · 08-02-2010, 10:16 PM

Originally Posted by Batch

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Looks like they learned from the same school that I did. Hey Crash, Terminex is a sponsor...just sayin'.

**rwc1969** · 08-03-2010, 06:48 PM

Originally Posted by Rick

This ain't right. You're 33, camp all the time and that's the first time you've ever seen a tick?

Hey, I didn't get a tick on me until two years ago and I've been hunting and stuff for nearly 40 years now. Makes me wonder if I just never noticed them before.

if you head west and north of here there is a line that the ticks don't seem to cross. In fact, it's a road to the west. Really strange actually. Hike on this side of road, no ticks, cross the road and you are covered.

I went for a two hour hike in Ionia, MI. and when I got back I had so many ticks on me I couldn't count them. makes me think of these primitive late fall shelters that use debris. Man, you'd wake up dead if you did that here unless the ticks are dormant or something.

I'm sure it's already been mentioned, but, when removing ticks it's best to use tweezers and grab em as close to the head as possible without squeezing the body and slowly pull straight away. If you're not careful you'll squeeze the toxins right into you or break off the sucker inside you.

Any other method can irritate the tick and cause him to re-gurgitate his toxins inside you.

BTW! down in KY, when I was young, the ticks would kill dogs. You'd see a dog come down outta the hills and he'd be looking like something out of a horror movie. Head to toe ticks, in the eyes and everywhere, skinny as a bone, greusome sight.

**Batch** · 08-03-2010, 07:13 PM

Originally Posted by rwc1969

BTW! down in KY, when I was young, the ticks would kill dogs. You'd see a dog come down outta the hills and he'd be looking like something out of a horror movie. Head to toe ticks, in the eyes and everywhere, skinny as a bone, greusome sight.

I got the advice in KY.

My brother is a tick magnet. LOL We couldn't get a tick to come loose and so we asked if anybody knew a way. It worked like a charm.

Anyhow, I had ticks on me as a kid. But, every tick I have found as an adult was crawling and not embedded. My brother though can walk through the exact same field and have 2 or 3!

**CoyoteBC** · 08-04-2010, 02:04 AM

Luckily ticks are not bad in my area yet.
I did have a friend that got lyme disease though.
He was the unluckiest sob around, he also got trichinosis from bear meat.
I have heard though that the ticks are getting more plentiful up here as the whitetail deer become more numerous.