On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:22:56 -0700, sf > wrote:

>On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:03:51 -0400, James Post >
>wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>
>Good tip, if it works!

It didn't for us. Picture 4 adults going 'Hurray- one of the dogs
has a tick-- what 'remedy' will we try this time?!'

alchohol- fail
oil- fail
nail polish- fail
match [made even more fun with a squirming dog- I know he was saying
"use fire on your own damn ticks!'] - fail

Crowbar-twisty thing. So easy we haven't tried anything else.

All of the 'authorities' [our vet, the CDC, the NIH, Health Dept, etc]
say to get the tick out as quickly as possible without damaging or
squeezing it to minimize transfer of infected blood that the tick
might be carrying.

The Tick-twisters do exactly that- for about $5 and another gadget on
the key chain.

Jim