UGH! That's one of the bugs that creeps me out the most! Sorry he *gotcha*! :(

We live in the country also and ticks are a regular thing here. Probably no reason to worry but just keep and eye on it!

I hate those little buggers. creepy little parasites.

Just for future reference - when you pull off a tick, grasp the body and head with tweezers or a hemostat and twist. The twist 'unlocks' the mouth/teeth and makes it for a cleaner removal. You always need to make sure you have the head. If left behind it will become quickly infected and get really bad, really fast.

Unfortunately, living in the middle of nowhere means LOTS of ticks and their season is from March to about the end of October around here. With the 'high' season is June to September. The first year we were here, we found a live tick on DH's leg right before Thanksgiving, but it had been really wet and mild. Can't wait for the first frostfreeze to kill 90% of all of the nasties outside.

I was told that putting fingernail polish on it's butt would make it raise the head from the skin and then could be brushed off. I haven't had one since we stopped hunting, deer had lots of them.
I quickly learned that you do NOT lean against a hanging deer for those bragging pictures, these critters go after warm blood.

Makes me shudder! I am glad we have none of those here in Alaska!

When my son was little I was washing his dark hair and didn't realize that he had a tick in his hair. I thought it was gum so I keep rubbing it. Pretty soon there was alot of blood dripping down from the top of his head. I looked and found the tick but it was too late, I had already broken the body off of the darn tick. Since it had been there for 2 days it had started to suck blood!!!!
We ended up having to take him to the emergency room since its head was still attached.

I remember his three year old sister crying because she thought her brother was going to die since there was so much blood.

I found this one early he hadn't properly attached yet. It was still burrowing into the skin. The skin is red and there is a blood spot from plucking it out. It isn't bothering me at all so I think it will be ok.

I think you will be fine. Ticks don't bother me that much. When I lived in Arkansas they were a real problem. The ones I really hated were the little seed ticks. You would brush against a weed and later you would suddenly feel them...I have dropped my pants more than once to get them off! :lol: We got ticks on such a regular basis that we would lay them in an ashtray and hold a lighter to them. When they popped, you knew they were dead!

My huz had had a couple deer ticks I had to remove. One buried itslef so deep I had to dig 1/4" in to get it all out. If we have a warmer than normal winter they are active. He had to take antibiotics a few times for tick bites.

The worst was spider bites. They can contain MERSA! He had a spider in his shirt that bit him on the back & chest. A few days later he had a huge burning rash that was spreading. It took weeks of antibiotics to get rid of that.

Ticks can also hide in plants you purchase at garden centers.