Buddy RARELY gets ticks, but, i recently bragged on that, so of course, now we both came out of the woods covered in tiny ticks. I didn't realize it, got home, and as i was washing my hands, i realized, MY shirt was sprinkled with ticks!! Eough! ONe of the ticks had 'embedded' into my shirt, too!! ha.
then, after i could breathe again, (i'm kinda grossed out by ticks) and before i hopped into tub, i checked Buddy, yeap, he had 3 or 4 crawling on him, too. (Ticks DO tend to crawl around for about SIX HOURS prior to embedding).
AND DANG IT, THAT WAS SUCH A GREAT PLACE TO WALK THE DOG, was new woods i'd just found....drove home smiling, thinking, WHAT a find!
anyway, i must have missed one tick on the dog, and Buddy must have found it, and then Buddy spent entire rest of the evening, staring at his own legs. Was funniest thing ever.
I do think, he'd gotten some sort of plant sap on his legs, which itched him maybe? Cuz he kept biting his own legs, all four of them.
So of course, we kept running over with magnifying glasses, and checking his legs, no ticks. Still Buddy continued to stare at his own legs, for HOURS.......
(border collies can so obsess, so fixate...oh they can!!)
it was hilarious, how he'd stare at his legs, and then, also, then he'd stand up and stare at floor all around his legs, scanning it very carefully and slowly, and any little speck on the floor, he would examine and stare at and sniff to see if it was a tick.
I finally had to give him a bath, to remove whatever plant sap was itching his legs, so he could rest.
OH! OH! i left out a part, there is a chair Buddy often lies in, {and prior to his bath}, all of the sudden, Buddy like almost fell out of the chair, and then stared at the chair, with wide, white showing all around eyes, then ran over next to me, appeared very frightened. I went over, and did find a tick in the chair.
It has NOW been a day or two, and Buddy still keeps staring at that chair as if afraid of it now, as if he thinks it has ticks in it. He occasionally stand up, puts his paws on the chair, sniffs it all over, and then backs away, watching the chair very worriedly as he walks backwards away from the chair....the face he makes, is too cute...such fear!! Oh my!! Each time, i run over to see if there is indeed a tick on it...nope, none.
I've checked the chair any number of times for ticks, but, Buddy is now afraid of that chair.
{Honestly, i have not worked to get him back in that chair, yet, thinking if he does have yet another tick, maybe best if he doesn't infest the chair afterall, not sure, we've NEVER had ticks, not ever.}
how funny though, Buddy is afraid of ticks!!???
) I didnt have a clue how to get it out even though I knew you have to "screw" them out with one of those tick things . . .needless to say that I bought a couple of them things there and then,wish I didnt bother now
hope hubby wont come across this,lol!!! Thank you,that sounds far easier,will pass this message on to everybody up our dog park
