I’m lying in bed, falling asleep, snuggled up next to pillows and cat, when I feel this … this …
ITCH.
And.
IT’S MOVING UP MY LEG!!!
Remember grade school lice checks? How you KNEW you didn’t have lice, but as soon as the nurses started coming around you started scratching your head?
Yup. Just like THAT.
Now I can’t fall back asleep cos I feel these THINGS all over me.
Help!!!
And, just since you’re up anyway and I love to help, here.
:d&r:
:eek: Ticks attacking?! In swarms?!?!?!
And they have poison??? (Which I’ve never heard of, btw, and I grew up in that tick haven, Eastern Connecticut…what kind of weird ass vaccine is that?)
I’m going to be creeped out all day.
When I read the title of this thread, I thought it was about a punk-revival band. “The Woodticks’ I Wanna Suck Your Blood, Baby! Now in stores!”
I’m afraid I wouldn’t be much help, I’m the same way. In fact I’m starting to itch right now and I don’t even think we have wood ticks here in Phoenix.
Tisiphone: that link was disturbing :eek:
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I had almost forgotten! I try to forget every year, and then one of the dogs will bring one inside (only one dog this year, sniff sniff cry) and I remember. EEEEW!
And they are even part of the arachnid family, but I just can’t bring myself to like them.
Hi chique.
Do not let your cats give you cat kisses!!! They are part of a cat/tick conspiracy. The cats distract you, while the little creepy bugs latch onto to you and drink your blood, and before you know it, you’re covered with them.
Why?
ahem
Because while you take a licking, they keep on ticking.
DW … you should be taken out back and shot for that comment 
I know how you feel Chique, this is the time of year when I do the full inspection, even when I know I haven’t been near any tall grass…I can feel them crawl on me now :shudder:. Now excuse me while I go in the bathroom for a quick inspection…
Keith
Gives me this Godzilla/1950’s Radioactive Giant Mutant Fill-In-The-Blank thing going on here…
Run! The Wood Ticks Are Out!!! Bullets won’t stop them!! Call out the National Guard!!
Godzilla shows up, says:Woodticks?!You call me all the way from Japan to fight some jive woodticks!?!? Gimme a break! Next time,go call Gamera.
Big G leaves, chique & company stand around , wondering what to do, so everybody goes out for pizza, instead. The giant, radioactive woodticks are buying the beer.
chique, you’d better not rent Ticks, then…
jayjay
Ticks, Ugh!
I live about 1/2 hour from Lyme, CT (so good they named a disease after it) and dread the tick season. Our dogs get covered in them (Frontline works, but its damn $$$), and the horses seem to be a favorite meal.
A couple of weeks ago I got out of the shower and found that I had a deer tick embedded in my … (how to put this delicately?) … let’s just say it had set up base camp getting ready for the assault on Mount Baldy.
The things suck, literally and figuratively. My wife had a deer tick in her when she was 3 months pregnant and ended up on pre-emptive antibiotics. Lyme can do a nasty number on a developing fetus.
Pardon me while I scratch…