Is this a tick?

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Originally Posted by Marla

Once the tick has let go, you're free to kill it in any way you see fit, including burning with a match head, pinning to your corkboard and letting it starve, dropping it in a nearby spiderweb, or zipping it in a baggie and dropping it off at the vet's office.

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Twisted Marla! :) I always prefer the toilet flush ride myself.

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Originally Posted by led4urhead

Twisted Marla! :) I always prefer the toilet flush ride myself.

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Hee hee. Yeah, I've been known to use that method myself, but I prefer to make sure they're dead first, just in case. :toilet:

Tick... Nasty buggers. Especially when you find around 12 in one ear of a cat... *bleh* But yeah, it is a tick. At school, we just get tweezers, grab their head, NOT THE BODY(because you can detach head from body and cause an infection), and maintain steady pulling pressure, letting the tick let go on it's own.
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Take cotton ball, soak in alcohol, hold to tick firmly for a few minutes to let it suffocate and then attempt to pull it off. As Marla said, try to not squeeze the body of the tick very hard as you may squeeze some of his saliva into the snake. That saliva can contain some pretty nasty bacteria and diseases.

This really isn't a needed trip to the vet. It's just a tick. And a vet would likely charge you a fee for the visit. Have fun killing the little booger. :-D

Well, just an update. It was a tick. I pulled it off before most of you had replied. I used tweezers. I have pulled many off of myself with tweezers and have become quite adept at pulling the head out. I just wasn't sure if it was a tick because all of the ticks I have pulled from myself were darker in color, and because I was a bit anxious about touching her head. I had never touched her head before and she didn't seem real interested in letting me, but she didn't bite and was generally a good girl about it. At any rate thanks for all the input, I think next time I will try alcohol or the suffocation method.

As for getting rid of the tick I chose burial at sea (flush down toilet).