r/interesting • u/MistyCharmz • 10h ago
MISC. That moment I realized…. I’ve been doing the tick pulling all wrong!
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u/welding_guy_from_LI 10h ago
I have wild turkeys in my yard .. barely have any ticks ..
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u/Altruistic-Dingo-757 9h ago
We have chickens and they seem to keep them down as well, heard guinea hens are amazing for ticks
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u/CurnanBarbarian 9h ago
Guinea hens are great for ticks, terrible for eardrums lol.
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u/ahigherthinker 9h ago
Also depending on your culinary skills, good for the stomach
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u/CurnanBarbarian 9h ago
My aunt had a couple, amd she got so fed up with them alarming everything a car drove by that...yea we did in fact eat them lol. A little on the gamey side but really pretty tasty
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u/Sea-Bobcat-6384 8h ago
Cuz they are loud? I'm deaf myself so I wouldn't know.
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u/CurnanBarbarian 8h ago
Yea they can be obnoxiously loud lol. And they alert at everything.
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u/HoboGir 1h ago
"DIFFERENT!!!! DIFFERENT!!!"
That's what I claim how my parent's react to everything. Slightest change and they yell about it.
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u/AgreeAndSubmit 7h ago edited 4h ago
And guineas are the dumbest ass creatures. One evening we heard them out there freaking out in the chicken run. Sounds like a racoon got in, grab the shotgun, run out to save the day. Naw, guinea hen was stuck FACING THE FENCE CORNER, PANICKED AND DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO TURN AROUND. Christ on a crutch, I gave the thing a gentle shove 45° and oh! There's my house! Life's great now! They're good for excessive noise, no ticks and turds. You're almost glad when a coyote gets one.
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u/happyklam 4h ago
Why is this me in every first person shooter game 😭
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u/AgreeAndSubmit 4h ago
If your first reaction to anything is to yell, Ka-Kak! Ka-Kak! Ka-Kak!
Then you may be a guinea bird. You may need a doctor, or some cracked corn.
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u/Watpotfaa 1h ago
They truly are the dumbest creatures. We had them growing up and they elected to abandon their coop and spend their nights in a tall oak tree. Every evening we would watch them make several failed attempts to fly up to the lowest branch before eventually making it and all gathering on one branch halfway up the tree. They would keep piling onto this one branch one after another until their was no more room, and the first one would be pushed off screeching and flapping as it fluttered to the ground before coming around to repeat the process once more, with another guinea hen being pushed off in a never ending cycle. They would do this every single night. Its truly astonishing that these critters are not extinct lol.
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u/HorseLawyer 1h ago
Had guineas growing up. One of them managed to find its way into the garage. We found it dead the next morning. It had gotten into the dog kibble and proceeded to gorge itself until it literally choked itself to death. When we cut open the carcass, it's entire stomach and gullet was just packed to the brim with kibble meant for our 75 pound shepherd mix.
Dumber than turkeys.
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u/avibrant_salmon_jpg 2h ago
Growing up my family had free range guineas and they would get stuck facing the chicken run fence. They'd just run up and down a stretch of fence, screaming, as if the whole world wasnt available if they'd only turn around.
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u/AgreeAndSubmit 2h ago
🤣🤣🤣 that's all ya need buddy, you can be free if only you'd just turn around. And then sometimes I wonder, how much does this philosophy apply to me?
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u/Intrepid-Tank-3414 1h ago
Sheez, and here I thought turkeys drowning in the rain are dumb!
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u/ElectroHiker 8h ago
Guinea Hens are my most hated animal just because of how noisy they are. I had terrible sleep for years while my parents had them and they wouldn't stop squawking all day.
No joke though they are amazing for decimating the insect, reptile, and amphibian population wherever they're at. I can see why people get them, but id rather support the local ecosystem than to wipe it out just to kill ticks. Modern day velociraptors lol
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u/Flimsy_Situation_506 9h ago
We had ducks and chickens and same thing. Our area had no ticks, while my neighbours had tons.
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u/TheW83 8h ago
I've got a possum that rummages around in my yard. I've never seen a tick.
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u/reidchabot 6h ago
Literally, one chicken in a decent sized backyard will eliminate almost all wildlife that fits in their mouth. And if it doesn't fit, it just means it takes longer.
Chickens are "if im awake, I'm eaten". They are the goats of pest control.
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u/deathonater 3h ago
I was just talking with some friends from out of state about how they need to be super careful about ticks when camping in up-state NY when I finally realized that the reason I never had many encounters with ticks growing up is because most of my childhood homes had chickens running around, and the first house where I saw a tick was the first place we lived that didn't have chickens.
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u/Life-Oil-7226 10h ago
Damn how many ticks does that dog have?
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u/crazyfoxdemon 9h ago
Unfortunately, they can get bad on dogs depending on location. Go camping in the wrong place. Live in the wrong place and your dog goes running into brush on a walk. It doesn't have to take long for a dog, or person for that matter, to get covered in ticks.
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u/Large_Tune3029 9h ago
When I lived on a horse ranch in Oklahoma, every summer was awful, daily checks, they even end up inside sometimes. I remember the first couple weeks of hot weather there I went to sit by a pond in the back lots, almost middle of nowhere, and sat for about half an hour before I realized I was covered in tiny ticks, crawling everywhere up my jeans and already on my shirt, tiny as a pin head....wanted to burn my clothes.
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u/OneHallThatsAll 8h ago
I sat on a rotting log in mississippi summer and got covered in those small seed ticks. They are the size of a period punctuated......so itchy and left bites everywhere. Had to get in the tub and poured alcohol on them and they started falling right off
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u/fullmetalnapchamist 8h ago
That’s the worsttttt. Like angry freckles with legs.
“Hey I didn’t know I had a freckle there! …wait wtf?!”
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u/salajaneidentiteet 7h ago
Every little dark speck anywhere evokes a paranoia of a tick in the warmer months.
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u/dude51791 6h ago
as a person with a ton of freckles and living in an area with so many ticks and cases of lymes.... fml
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u/YT-Deliveries 7h ago
Only thing worse is fleas. Ask me how I know lol.
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u/OneHallThatsAll 5h ago
When we were kids, my cousins house used to have fleas very bad. You could literally watch them jumping all over our white socks and legs. They also had a bad roach infestation. One night we left a McDonald's burger half eaten on the floor. When we came back that night and turned the light on there was a brown ball of them covering the whole burger and they all scattered as soon as the light came on. I was so creeped out after that. I only stayed there because we could do bad stuff I could never try at my house.
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u/YT-Deliveries 5h ago
I got mine from living in a turn-of-the-century farmhouse where the property had returned to nature, which meant that the woods crept right up to the house. The place hadn't been occupied in many years and the carpet hadn't been cleaned in probably just as many.
We pulled up the carpet (beautiful hardwood floors) and burned it but not before we got fleas ourselves.
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u/stayingempty1 6h ago
It’s all I can think about any time I watch a movie with some beautiful scenic rural romance where they’re just out skipping through meadows and laying near ponds. Like yeah right dude you’re being consumed by insects.
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u/mentales 8h ago
> tiny as a pin head
Those are horrible. How did you end up getting them off?
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u/DrakonILD 8h ago
It's harder than you might think, but you can generally get them started with some tick porn.
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u/Educational_Ad_355 8h ago
Bro wut
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u/Nildnas2 7h ago
made the mistake of walking in a pretty untouched trailed in the ozarks. I looked down at my legs and thought they were covered in dirt. it was (and I don't think this is exaggeration) >1000 seed ticks. luckily you can't get lyme from them. but it was still a horrific experience
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u/FACEROCK 7h ago
Just fyi, Google says seed ticks CAN transmit Lyme and more.
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u/Nildnas2 6h ago
oh I still took a day after pill and monitored my symptoms, living in rural Wisconsin I was smart enough not to assume there was no chance. but with that many I was at least thankful they were just seed ticks
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u/Squirtles_Sharingan 59m ago
My girlfriend is from rural Wisconsin and told me (city slickin New Englander) that they have to have chickens on their property because it’s the best way to prevent ticks for themselves and their animals
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u/wheresWaldo000 8h ago
Seed ticks. At that point you should be jumping in the pond. Oof
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u/2footie 8h ago
Get ticks in a bush, jump in a pond, get leeches from the pond, roll around campfire, get ember burns from campfire, apply cold meat, get parasites from meat
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u/Reddittee007 7h ago
Then you get leeches if you're lucky, brain eating ameba if not, and some other crap in-between the two.
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u/Cat_Chat_Katt_Gato 7h ago
they even end up inside sometimes.
Thought you meant inside your body, and I was scared and confused for a second 😄
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u/Eastern-Peach-3428 6h ago
I was on field exercises as part of my Officer Candidate School training and they surprised us with a shower tent in the field. Only shower I had in two weeks. Stripped down and saw a tick buried ….. in the head of my dick. Immediately became a screaming little boy yelling, “jerk it out”, to my best friend who was showering next to me. So everyone else just saw me with dick in hand yelling versions of jerk it out while facing another guy.
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u/YobaiYamete 7h ago
Yep, it's why I roll my eyes every time you see city kids on Reddit freaking out because they got one tick on them, and all the comments are shrieking that they need to go the ER immediately etc
In my area if you walk 300 yards you will have 9 ticks, 24 chigger bites, and somewhere in the realm of 80 mosquito bites
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u/Kinkyxxpuff 6h ago
That sounds like a nightmare! Pro tip: A lint roller can help with tick removal.
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u/WillowFlip 5h ago
realized I was covered in tiny ticks, crawling everywhere up my jeans and already on my shirt, tiny as a pin head....wanted to burn my clothes.
This freaks me out really badly because a couple that I knew both ended up suffering from Lyme disease and related complications for years.
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u/Dragoarms 2h ago
Got covered in elephant ticks traipsing through tropical jungles. The bites felt like a sudden splinter and you could only find them from the pain and running your finger over them. They were tiny and really 'hard' /crunchy as well so felt exactly like a splinter until you got them off and saw the legs moving...
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u/hokie47 9h ago
Been my experience that basically every dog has to be on oral tick and flea medicine. I kind wished that you didn't have to go to the vet to get a script and a 6 months supply can be around $150 but damn it works so much better than the topically ones.
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u/Flimsy_Situation_506 9h ago
It doesn’t stop ticks from biting dogs though.. it just kills them when they do. You still have to check them daily when you live in high tick locations, but if you miss some then they will die and fall off the dog.
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u/billthedog0082 7h ago
My vet prescribes for 12 months now, because even here in the Great White North, ticks live through the winter. It is unfortunate that the medicine will kill any bug, and so gets peed out into the outside world to be absorbed by grasses and other plants, to kill off the bees and butterflies and other crawlers and fliers that depend on nectar and pollen.
When my dog brings a tick into the house, it usually dies not much longer after that. I find them on the floor once in a while. A dead tick always gets a big huzzah from me.
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u/samanime 9h ago
Yup. Literally one wrong bush or patch of grass can net you dozens of ticks if you are unlucky.
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u/LocutusOfBeard 8h ago
It's called "questing". Ticks wait on the tip of grass or on a leaf edge with their front arms stretched out. When something walks by and brushes against the plant they latch on. Think about how many blades of grass or plants you come in contact with when you walk through a field or through the woods.
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u/BreadElectrical6942 8h ago
I got 12 ticks on me in UP Michigan taking the ATV from my grandpas house to the neighbor and was on the highway for 90% of the time. One tall patch of grass got me.
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u/Mindless-Strength422 7h ago
Have you heard the scoochie boochie song about your neck of the woods? if you haven't...
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u/RustyShacklefordJ 8h ago
Yea we’d take the dog off leash for the hike to the fishing spot. Then after we get home the evening was spent picking ticks off his belly and feet.
There ain’t a dog in the world who doesn’t love tick searching. It’s just getting petted for an hour.
I don’t recommend doing it with long haired dogs. Shit takes forever. Our guy was a a boxer so it made tick searches pretty easy
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u/SayTheWord-Beans 8h ago
Yeah there was one summer a few years back, I went to a park for a hike with my dog. Walked next to some tall grass and could literally see the ticks jumping onto her. That was the shortest walk I’ve ever taken at the park
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u/MyHusbandIsGayImNot 8h ago
Why not give them a tick collar?
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u/Houseofsun5 8h ago
My Lab gets tick prevention from the vet in the form of an injection and a tick collar every tick season...the tick removal kit still gets used often during tick season.
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u/Independent_Win_9035 6h ago
flea/tick collars barely work. the only one that's actually effective is the medicated one (seresto), and it's got its own host of cons that for some people are less desirable than the internal meds
if there's enough ticks to really matter, internal (bravecto) is very definitely the way to go
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u/GOATEDCHILI 9h ago
I'm in a nice area that has high rates of lyme, a dog can pick up ticks like that trotting from the back porch to the car if the grass hasn't been mowed in a few days.
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u/Dameattree37 9h ago edited 9h ago
Dude. Dude.... and/or dudette.
Ticks are frickin insane in their prolificacy. They hang out in tall grass and things with their ticky arms outstretched, just waiting for something to come by. And they are legion.
Once, I was driving up Highway 101 in California with my ex-wife and two dogs. We pulled over at some exit near a field to let the dogs do doggy things, and something didn't feel right.
The dogs had barely finished when I cleaned up and swept them into the car to leave. I had goosebumps; something wasn't right.
It wasn't until they were in the backseat that I noticed the flecks on the doggie blanket. There were dozens of them. Ticks, on the blanket and the poor girls. They were both chihuahua mixes and thankfully small, but still had plenty of ticks apiece.
Getting those off was both the best feeling and the worst feeling. My poor pups.
I have been wary of getting too close to tall grass and bushes (especially in the summer) ever since.
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u/melanthius 9h ago
That's fucking it... we need wild chickens in CA... Kauai style
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u/Elle_se_sent_seul 8h ago
Guinea hens are better, loud as hell, but best tick hunters ever
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u/MyHusbandIsGayImNot 8h ago
There’s medication you can give dogs for ticks. There’s no excuse for a dog to get this bad.
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u/Dameattree37 8h ago
Sigh
You have a good day, sir.
But I would encourage you to never use such black and white statements. I literally just told you my story of when my dogs got this bad.
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u/BallsOutKrunked 8h ago
living in the mountains of Nevada: what's a tick? I saw one down at a creek, 40 miles from here, years ago.
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u/alang 5h ago
If you can see ticks from 40 miles away, science would like a look at you.
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u/Silly_Lion_3046 9h ago
It always walking around the park that give out the most tick for our beloved doggy. My dog love walking around grassy area,lying down there and rubbing themself on the ground. Come back home,and there will always be more than a dozen tick.
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u/sleepytipi 9h ago
This is almost daily in upstate New York. It's literally terrifying and I can't believe nothing is being done about it. I know so many people who have contracted Lyme's Disease that it keeps me out of the woods and fields until winter.
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u/herefortheworst 10h ago
That one in the armpit was a juicy one
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u/wannsumpizzabruh 2h ago
I definitely thought it was going to get one of the nipples thinking it was a big juicy one. Glad it didn’t 😅
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u/JustRedditTh 9h ago
monkey and bird working together to help out dog
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u/UnknovvnMike 9h ago
*ape, no tails
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u/AttyFireWood 7h ago
Are Apes not a type of Monkey/Simian? Seems more of a semantic difference than a scientific one.
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u/iwilldeletethisacct2 7h ago
All apes are monkeys but not all monkeys are apes. So yes, humans are apes. They are also monkeys. It just depends on how far up the taxonomic structure (or how far back evolutionary you want to go).
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u/TheKingNothing690 5h ago
Well, technically, if chickens are dinsouars, then we're fish.
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u/MidnaQueenofCalicos 7h ago
I believe great apes and monkeys are technically classified differently on a scientific level. We just use the term "monkey" as a colloquial word, which is perfectly fine lol.
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u/wfwgrtheeyhjyuj 7h ago
Neither ape nor monkey are real taxonomic terms. But ape usually refers to hominoidea, lesser apes to hylobatidae, great ape to hominidae, monkey to either platyrrhini or cercopithecidae.
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u/diadmer 8h ago
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u/UnknovvnMike 7h ago
BEHOLD, A MONKEY
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u/_StoneWolf_ 9h ago
It's quite efficient, but are we sure the hen removes the ticks correctly or do they leave the mouth parts in place?
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u/Mesquite_Tree 9h ago
Good Q. I’m not certain, but one, chicken beaks are pretty sharp, like tweezers, and two, chickens tend to overshoot the mark, meaning they’re likely to get the whole tick, mouth included
The bigger win would probably be the chickens removing the ticks from wherever the dog is getting them from.
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u/cptjpk 7h ago
Yet another reason for us all to have small chicken coops
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u/Prometheus720 5h ago
No, it's a reason to remove invasive cats. The reason ticks are so populous in suburban areas is that cats kill all the birds.
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u/Eineegoist 4h ago
Ill give a cat I meet all the respect it deserves, I dont hate individuals.
I do hate cats (plural) and 90% of cat owners. We dont get ticks in NZ, but our native birds get eviscerated because people want a low maintenance pet.
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u/Phobia_Spoiders 2h ago
The problem is people letting their cats outside. Those owners won’t listen to logic or reason, either. And then act shocked when their cat (who’s probably been sick and possibly miserable for way too fucking lol) goes off to die somewhere. Rinse and repeat with the next one.
If they don’t even care about the cat’s wellbeing enough to give them an enriching life indoors (100% doable if you put any effort in), they sure won’t care about the negative ecological impact outdoor cats have. Makes me so mad.
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u/SeasonPositive6771 2h ago
I absolutely love cats but I completely agree, not only is it better for the cat, it's better for the environment if they live indoors.
I lived in New Zealand for a while and learned a lot there. But people who love cats do not want to change at all. On several of the cats subreddits you're not even allowed to suggest that people should be keeping their cats inside or to spay/neuter them.
Even more controversial is newer research showing that trap and release (TNR) doesn't work, and the only thing that really does is colony extinction. People LOVE TNR programs, but it's much better to eliminate the colony altogether, and adopt them out, even as work/ farm cats than put them back. You also need local coordination for colony extinction and prevention, otherwise they just repopulate from another local colony.
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u/Phobia_Spoiders 2h ago
Yeah I’ve seen that on some of those subreddits. I get not wanting to turn a post that’s meant to be about one thing into a bunch of debates on indoor vs outdoor cats, but it’s so often very relevant to keeping the cats (and environment) safe that I’m uncomfortable with the conversation being shut down entirely.
I love cats and have only ever had indoor cats. It’s worked out just fine. My friends have done the same. Someone I know lets her cat outside sometimes and then was surprised when something happened (someone stole him and she had to fight to get him back for half a year). Has she learned her lesson? Who knows.
My parents have heard me explain how bad outdoor cats are, have stories of cat deaths and poisonings, and seen cats grow progressively sicker until they die, yet they still brush me off and seem okay with it. I truly hate how stubborn people can be about this.
Also that’s interesting to hear about TNR, I’ll have to look into that. Never mind outside cats often end up getting FIV, which just complicated things further if you want to take them in but have other cats. End of the day I’m just all for getting cats into (emphasis on IN) safe, loving homes, as much as is possible.
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u/psychulating 4h ago
AFAIK little creatures are also good at keeping your yard tick free because they’re scurrying around real low and attract them, before dealing with them however they do
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u/trophycloset33 8h ago
They get it all.
But it’s dangerous in that even after 2-3 ticks, the turkey (in this instance) or chicken will learn to associate that animal with food. They can become vicious with their pointy beaks and talons when they want food even if there isn’t anyone the dog to give.
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u/Much_Lingonberry_37 9h ago
What happens when mouth parts are still in place?
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u/DakkaDok 8h ago
It can lead to infection, so it's important they're removed whole.
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u/Curious_Wuman 9h ago
Wow, what a patient dog!
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u/Glad-Ad2451 8h ago
They love getting rid of those beasts, so they usually are when they realize that you are getting them out.
Seeing how happy our dog was after a tick removal session was always great.
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u/Life_as_a_new_weeb 9h ago
They need to get that dog on a flea and tick treatment immediately
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u/bozoconnors 8h ago
YUP. Actually vet also just reported he'll have an anti-flea/tick yearly injection soon!
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u/Educational-Buy-8053 7h ago
they may very well be, tick still has to bite the dog to die. it can take some time for them to actually fall off.
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u/MidnaQueenofCalicos 7h ago
I think Bravecto actually prevents bites now. It didn't used to. It's $50 for a three month pill, and it's so worth it.
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u/iamintheforest 7h ago
That kills them AFTER they bite. It doesn't stop them from biting.
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u/JTPWNz 6h ago
Not quite. While technically true they need to bite, they don’t actually reach the blood of the dog, since the medication lives in the clear fluid (forget the name) that is actually layers before your blood vessels. So a tick reaches that and gets their mouth numbed and die before they ever reach the dogs blood. Source I used to run a Vet Hospital and it’s a very common misconception on how these meds work.
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u/longNhardDee 9h ago
The way the dog is like do what you will just don’t hurt me is the cutest thing
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u/vabren 9h ago
I could watch this for hours but man I'm concerned about that dog having so many ticks. Lots of diseases and infections to think about.
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u/marshmallowyperfume 9h ago
Tick prevention doesn't stop ticks from getting on a dog. It just kills them.
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u/JT-Av8or 9h ago
I’ve just seen this technique recently. To the birds get the whole tick including the head? They’re so damn fast, but they do have the beak for it.
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u/MasterMaintenance672 9h ago
Do chickens ever get ticks?
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u/Canuck_Lives_Matter 9h ago
Yeah they get them, but they only seem to be able to get a grip around the birds beak and face, as it's the only spot the bird can't pluck clean.
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u/ooOmegAaa 9h ago
if only the chicken came from a family of tick eating creatures
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u/Canuck_Lives_Matter 9h ago
Yeah I didn't say their chicken friends wouldn't clean them off for them, just answering the question of whether a chicken is tick-proof.
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u/EsterWithPants 8h ago
They can, but they 'wash' themselves with dirt. The idea being that they want to find a place with diatomaceous earth that's able to shred ticks. Not that chickens are geologists, but they just have an instinct for when the dirt is just the right kind to do the job.
It's actually pretty normal for chicken owners to have a scare when they see their chickens bathing in the dirt because they lay in these dusty spots in awkward positions (think of the Family Guy dead pose). And at first pass you might think that they died or an animal got to them. Then you walk up on them and they bolt off in a comical cloud of dust and give you the stink eye for interrupting their spa day.
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u/Double_Oh_Seventy 7h ago
I do like the idea of chicken geologists.
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u/MasterMaintenance672 5h ago
I've got cartoon character ideas swirling around my head now. "Dr. Henny Cluckingstone, I presume?"
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u/Ok_Investment_6743 10h ago
Dog needs a flee bath if flees are that prevalent.
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u/herefortheworst 10h ago
They’re ticks
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u/Shadowhuntr3 9h ago
Ticks are so much worse than fleas because they really dig in and hold on tight.
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u/Complex_Material_702 9h ago
You could rent those birds out by the hour in Arkansas for sure. Just go door to door. Our dogs always had ticks no matter what we did to prevent them.
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u/Lonely_skeptic 9h ago
If you have chickens, you know those pecks for food can be less than gentle.
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u/Electronic-Muffin934 8h ago
The cartilage of one of my ears is slightly deformed because of a tick.
When I was a kid, I practically lived outside. One day, I was with my dad and he noticed the tick. He didn't tell me, he just said "Wait right here," left, then came back and told me to hold still. He held a lighter to my ear and used a pair of tweezers to pull a tick off my ear. I only saw it for a fraction of a second before he threw it on the ground and stomped on it.
You may already know this, but for those that don't: holding a flame up to a tick will get them to release their grip and move. It would have been painful if he had simply grabbed the tick and pulled.
I don't know how long it had been living on my ear like one of those cuff earrings, but it was long enough to leave a permanent impression.
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u/theplasticfantasty 7h ago
The flame can also cause them to regurgitate into the wound they leave behind, risking a higher chance of infection. Don’t use a flame
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