Ok. I went ahead and pulled it off. I have a lot of experience of getting ticks off of dogs, so I tried it. I am pretty confident that I got it head and all off of my girl. It was big enough to see easily and to grab with tweezers, and it looked like a tick. It was about the size of this "o". Maybe just a tad smaller. To my understanding, correct me if I am wrong, but a mite is more the size a period on the page, right?