So, I'm putting a laundry basket on the bed, ready to fold clothes and I spot it on the bed. Gross! I grabbed a tissue and toted it off to the sink where I quickly burned it. So now I'm second guessing myself. Should I have saved it? It didn't look engorged, just a plain black male tick. I'm betting it hitched a ride with the dog, and since she sleeps with us on our bed, that's where it ended up. (The dog's on Trifexus,by the way) What should I have done? What would you do? My laundry is now just beginning' because I need to go wash all our sheets.
Thanks in advance, folks.
Ticks aren't like lice. It's not like if you see one there are hundreds more near by. Many times, there's just one.
They Re a part of life. Flush it down the toilet. Washi g sheets? Why? You let the dog sleep on bed but took sheets off because of one.ittle tick. Why would you save it? Even if you use preventive stuff, you have a dog you are bound to find a tick here and there. Don't worry.
Ticks go down the toilet. Dog would go on his own bed on the other side of the room.
I flush them and I don't think it's necessary to wash all of the sheets, unless it just makes you feel better. You would only need to save it if you suspect it's a deer tick and you suspect it had been attached to someone, but it doesn't sound like it and they are often too small to even see readily. In this part of the country, we find ticks all of the time during tick season.
Dog ticks aren't deer ticks. Relax.
The stuff you put on your dog poisons the ticks and doesn't allow them to attach to the dog. That's why you found it on your bed.
Keep the dog off of your bed.
Saved it? Why?
I used to flush them down the toilet when I took them off our dog..
If you found it on yourself that is one thing. But on the bed - why worry??
Nah, unless you take it off a person. Then bag it and save it for a couple weeks in the freezer.
They are very plentiful around here this year. I was sitting in bed reading a few weeks ago and felt something on my shoulder. I thought it was just a thread from my shirt, but it turned out to be a tick! Yikes! I tossed it in the toilet and changed my clothes and pretty much didn't sleep that night.
I haven't seen another though. My dog is also on trifexis, but I go in the yard too and one of us picked up the darn thing. Not sure which. I hate ticks!
I think you did the right thing. Good luck sleeping tonight ;-)
