WARNING...everyone should read this
 

Today I was rubbing Hannah and I felt a little bump. When I looked closer it was a little white thing attached to her skin, then I looked and they were everywhere on her. I pulled about 25 off in a matter of minutes. They looked like very very very tiny white ticks. I took her to the vet and they said they were seed ticks. I had never heard of seed ticks but I took Hannah (only Hannah and not Bentley-thank goodness) to the farm yesterday evening and she ran through the weeds. Well when we got home last night I rubbed through her coat to feel for any tick and I looked as well. I did not feel anything or see anything, but these are so small that it is very hard to feel, or they may not have been attached yet. I know that some of you have already heard of seed ticks because I did a search. I have spent the last 4 hours pulling probably 500 of these seed tick off her. I did use the orvitrol spray on her followed with a flea and tick shampoo, and I think that it killed them, but they were still attached, so I had to manually pull them off. I have attached some pics of the seed ticks attached and pics of them on a piece of scotch tape. I know it is gross but it is the nasty reality of what can happen......YUCK...:eek:

Wow! Thanks, I have never heard of nor seen those. :eek:

I had not heard of them either....it has been a terrible day.....:mad:

Woah!! Are they also found in the eastern states?

wow, I hope you have a better day!! Glad you saw them and were able to pick them all off. I've never heard of them either!

They are found everywhere, from what I understand, they are very early baby ticks, a tick before it becomes a real tick. The vet also told me to go home and go over every surface of my familys body, especially the skin folds and belly button. He said that a man he knew had one that was attached under the foreskin of his penis......:eek: . He said they can go everywhere.

OMG!! :eek: Does DEET keep them off humans? Would Frontline keep them off yorkies???

Wow I have never heard of those either, Thanks so much for the info, and I sure hope your baby is ok, they look like nasty things for sure.

OMG! I had never heard of them either. Thanks for the heads up. Hope Hannah is feeling better after that ordeal.

Whoa....Thanks for the info!!

Deet must keep them off humans, because I ALWAYS have Off on me when I am outside and I have never seen one on me-but then again, who would notice. My dogs use frontline and they are not due another dose until 10 days from now. So I might start putting frontline on every 3 weeks. I also read that August is the worst time for these early ticks.

:eek: I've never heard of them either! That is really disgusting. Poor little baby. Now you have me itching like crazy.... :rolleyes:

OMG Genie!!:eek: :eek: Thank you for the warning sorry she had to experiance it first hand! Give her kisses from Peeka and Daisy!

LOL, you think you are itching like crazy... you should come here....we will all end up with a skin infection if we don't quit scratching...:eek:, puls all of our bed covers and the dogs blankets are being washed in hot water. It is CRAZY here. I hope none of you have to go through this. It is worse than when my daughter caught lice when she was little.

Wow who would have ever figured that was a tick.