tick removal

[TommyGunn]

I removed all the ticks from my clock, and now it just goes "-tock, -tock, -tock, -tock, -tock ..."

 

[RoadKingLarry]

My Mother said there were some home remedies out there that said eating local honey and or maybe other stuff would keep them off you

While I'm a big fan and advocate for eating locally produced honey* (mostly becasue it's good but my experience shows it to have health perks as well) my personal experience has shown no repellant effect against the ticks in my local



* somewhere between 20 to 25 lbs a year

[zxcvbob]

somewhere between 20 to 25 lbs a year

Honey?  Or ticks?   

[RoadKingLarry]

It would take a bunch of ticks to make a 20# herd. I've had years where I might have come close to that but not recently

[Sawdust]

I removed all the ticks from my clock, and now it just goes "-tock, -tock, -tock, -tock, -tock ..."

 

Did *not* read that as 'clock' the first time through...   

Sawdust

[Harold Tuttle]

[MechAg94]

SPOOOONNNN!!!!   

I loved those cartoons.   

[Lee]

"Yeah, and we have to pull them off the horses too, especially in certain places."
I've just thought of a new saying, "fatter than a tick on a horses balls".  They'd be fallen off on their own if it was me.

[230RN]

Vitamin B(12?) is supposed to discourage insect bites.  Or so I heard. 

[zxcvbob]

Vitamin B(12?) is supposed to discourage insect bites.  Or so I heard. 

It's either niacin or thiamine -- I think thiamine (whichever is that nasty medicinal smell in a fresh bottle of multivitamins)

[geronimotwo]

if there's any truth to that, I may have to find some doggy vitamins......