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Originally Posted by daisymazed
Hi Costello,
We call those big ones dog ticks down south because they generally latch onto dogs that run freely in the woods. They get bigger when engorged with blood and fall off, bust open and voila' thousands of seed ticks. As a girl running through the thick woods they would rub off on me off a bush I would brush up against. I would feel some thing on one of my limbs there would be this dark spot that would began to spread over my skin, thousands of them. At that point all I could do was brush furiously. My Momma would make a concoction of suffer cream of tarter and lotion to ward them off. But I would have to grease up with that often because of sweating it off in that humidity. gay~ta~ween~
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Yep. They're little like the one on the left when they get onto the dog, so they're hidden under the hair. You usually don't notice them until they're engorged. Occasionally one would get big enough that it would fall off, and I'd find it on the floor. Once or twice I've stepped on them accidentally. All that ever comes out is blood, as far as I know.
My family has always had dogs. When I was little, we camped a lot. Then when I got to be 11, we moved into the country. We have woods next to our house and tall grass all around (tall grass is another great place to pick up ticks - I once chased a run away dog through a field of tall grass then went to a hair dresser appointment right after - I thought I'd found all the ticks, but I was mortified to see one crawling up my leg while I was getting my hair cut
). Anyway, ticks-r-us.
Now that they have great products like Vectra, I don't have to deal with them as much.