This site is great! I purchased my first bp 3 weeks ago. I followed everyone's advice and left him alone for a week after introducing him to his new home. After a week, my wife and I took him out and he was awesome. However, my wife noticed a little dark spot that felt like a bump in his skin. I kind of ignored it, until 2 weeks later the black bump turned into a bigger red bump! I didn't know what it was so I checked around on this forum and came to the conclusion that it was a tick! I took him to the vet and sure enough I was right! They got it out with the head, it cost me $100 bucks, but now Apollo is fine.

Anyways, I would never have suspected a tick without researching here.

Thanks everyone!