On 06/07/2011 7:35 AM, Jim Elbrecht wrote:

> Best tool we've found to remove them without leaving parts behind, or
> squeezing someone else's blood into the host is the Tick Twister-
> http://www.amazon.com/ProCollar-Tick...dp/B000OH6D96/
>
> Looks like a crowbar, but you spin it and get the entire tick. Which
> you can then explode with a match or cigarette.<g>
>


I have a similar little tool that I picked up at the vet's office. It
looks like a little plastic crowbar. Slip the notch over the tick's head
and give it a twist.