Reply to: Ticks - How to get rid of?

[OwlHoot]

Fnarr Fnarr !! But anything that floats yer boat, I suppose.

DOH! Shades of Rodney Marsh

Marsh later joked that the England manager Alf Ramsey told him ‘I'll be watching you for the first 45 minutes and if you don't work harder I'll pull you off at halftime," to which Marsh said that he replied: “Crikey, Alf, at Manchester City all we get is an orange and a cup of tea.”.

[TestMangler]

Do you have hedgehogs in your garden? They're infested with ticks.

If you have a lawn, a good trick is to pull a light woollen blanket across it, and any ticks on the lawn will grab onto it, from where you can pull them off afterwards. Keep doing that daily a few times and you'll catch most of them.

Fnarr Fnarr !! But anything that floats yer boat, I suppose.

[Sysman]

Neat alcohol applied to the affected area works.

Turps also works.

[NotAllThere]

I've found this sort of thing quite effective in the past:

No. Nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

[SimonMac]

I've got to share my whiskey and the Haribo with the little
darlings!!!

Bleeding me dry!!!

Sharing your Haribo?

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[Lockhouse]

We use this on our cats. I couldn't see anywhere it said "Not suitable for children".

[Gonzo]

On a child???

Oh dear.

Has the backlash against passive smoking got that bad since I left?

[MarillionFan]

Whenever one of the cats ended up with one, mother used to light a cigar and hold the burning end against the blood-filled part. They used to let go then.

Have you tried that?

On a child???

[Gonzo]

Whenever one of the cats ended up with one, mother used to light a cigar and hold the burning end against the blood-filled part. They used to let go then.

Have you tried that?

[BlasterBates]

[OwlHoot]

Do you have hedgehogs in your garden? They're infested with ticks.

If you have a lawn, a good trick is to pull a light woollen blanket across it, and any ticks on the lawn will grab onto it, from where you can pull them off afterwards. Keep doing that daily a few times and you'll catch most of them.

[NotAllThere]

Get your kids immunised. Lyme's disease is pretty nasty if it doesn't get treated early. (Treatment is penicillin).

Edit: ah - you can't get the vaccine in the UK. In that case, keep your eye out for a red "bulls-eye" rash. If they get one, go see a doc. There are a few thousand cases of infection in the UK every year.

[TestMangler]

Get a tick remover from the pet shop. Looks like a little two pronged fork and you get two or three different sizes in a set.

Don't leave any bits in when removing them. Nasty little ****ers.

[MarillionFan]

Neat alcohol applied to the affected area works.

I've got to share my whiskey and the Haribo with the little
darlings!!!

Bleeding me dry!!!

[Old Greg]

Neat alcohol applied to the affected area works.

That's his solution to everything.