On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 07:35:16 -0400, 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>
>
>Jim

You can just put a drop of any type of cooking oil on the tick while
it's still embedded and it will back out of the animal. Then just pick
it up with tweezers and put it into a small jar of rubbing alcohol.