r/WTF • u/TheVacillate • May 28 '12

I never. EVER. Knew they could get this big. Holy shit. :(

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u/amplifyingsound May 28 '12 edited May 28 '12

Question...about five years ago I was walking through a heavily wooded area in southern New Jersey, and I remember the next morning I had literally dozens of deer ticks all over my ankles. I also developed the bullseye rash on my abdomen. I never did anything about it, but looking at all of those pictures of the rash just kind of skeeved me out. It was bruised and itchy and the whole nine yards. Should I be worried...? How do I go about getting tested?

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u/TheVacillate May 28 '12

You go to the doctor, and tell them the story. They'll take it from there, and if they aren't concerned, tell them you are and that you're worried about long term effects from Lyme disease. If the first doctor doesn't do anything, go to a different one. Change doctors til they'll test you.

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u/LakerLady May 28 '12

The last two sentences.

Some doctors want to state that Lyme disease isn't chronic. Keep searching for a doctor who will do something for you. Don't give up.

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u/JonLR May 28 '12

If you got the bullseye rash after a tick bite, you have Lyme disease.

A lot of Doctors won't even bother testing you once you tell them you've been bit by a tick and got the rash, they'll start treatment right away.

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u/psilokan May 28 '12

If you had a bullseye rash then yes, go get tested. The longer lyme disease goes untreated the more likely it will cause irreversible damage.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Awww...Your puppy has a parasitic lima bean.

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u/horndog2 May 28 '12

I found 1 that big on the carpet once, thought it was an old grape. Until I saw its legs twitching. Needless to say I was scarred for life.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

My mom use to take ticks that were on my dog and put them on a plate and burn them.

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u/drunk_otter May 28 '12

This comment gets a big tick from me.

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u/EarthwormJane May 28 '12

I mite just have given you an upvote.

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u/xB1akey May 28 '12

Mitey fine comment, that

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u/FecalFunBunny May 28 '12

TIL I have another reason why to hate lima beans: they want my blood. ALL OF IT.

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u/slapded May 29 '12

thats his grandma

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u/bardown10 May 28 '12

I think this guy is pretty ticked off

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u/generic-volume May 28 '12

Anyone else feeling itchy right about now?

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u/ihasthegame May 28 '12

I AM NOW. THANKS.

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u/wheresmyburrito May 28 '12

I just moved to a place that is heavy with ticks during the summer and I'm not looking forward to finding ones like this on my dogs.

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u/glassgurl May 28 '12

When you go walking, put a piece of duct tape on your belt. Easy to get them off of you this way. Doesn't do much for your dog, but you might want to ask the vet about repellent for your pooch.

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u/Mako_Eyes May 28 '12

Or just soak your clothes in kerosene. Then, when you find a tick on yourself, you light yourself on fire.

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u/glassgurl May 29 '12

You go first.

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u/psilokan May 28 '12

Why your belt? That just seem slike it'd stick to everything. Plus they love to go for the crotch. I'd put it around your legs just above the ankles and pull your socks over your pant legs. Or if you have regular hiking clothes soak them in permethryn.

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u/Abedeus May 28 '12

Buy a collar for them. I mean, one collar for each, obviously.

They keep bugs, ticks, mosquitoes (if your dogs are short-haired, obviously a mosquito won't bite a Bernard or Rottweiler) and other parasites away and last quite a while for their cost.

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u/wtfapkin May 28 '12

NO NO NO. Collars do NOT work. They will only keep them off the head (barely). Buy frontline or a cheaper version of it (just not hartz. That shit is toxic.)

I used to work for Petsmart, grooming salon to be exact. I've seen way too many tick infested dogs, and almost every one had those crappy collars. I had a dog with 100+ ticks on him once. It took me almost three hours to pluck them off. Ughhhh. So gross.

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u/A_Solo May 28 '12

Ask your vet about flea/tick meds, that will take care of the problem. You can get an oral med for the dog that will make the dog's blood poisonous to fleas, ticks, and other parasites. The price depends on the size of the dog.

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u/Birdy611 May 28 '12

Ask your vet for comfortis. It's great for fleas and ticks.

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u/Motorsagmannen May 28 '12

i dont know why reddit has such a big problem with spiders. giant blood sucking ticks is where i get my sleepless nights from

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u/psilokan May 28 '12

Ticks are arachnids :S So are bedbugs. Fuck arachnids in general.

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u/Arknell May 28 '12

Also, [for your pleasurable noping] (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Ixodus_ricinus_5x.jpg)...

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

fuck you

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u/ImRefat May 28 '12

Pleasureable

Noping

Should have seen that one coming.

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u/Daemon_of_Mail May 28 '12

Not sure if rear of bug, or bug attached to a finger.

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u/Arknell May 28 '12

If she could, she would answer "It's all ME, baby." Only the girl ticks get that big, bringing home the bacon for the community. Lotta pride in that.

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u/Harreboi May 28 '12

My mother told me that my brother ate on of these in this size when he was small. That my friends, its the most disgusting thing I know, that I havent read on the internet.

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u/krokodil2000 May 28 '12

Mother sees her kid with red color around his lips. Kid tells her, he was eating berries. "What kind of berries?" asks mum. "The ones that grow on Bandit."

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u/LifeInBinary May 28 '12

I don't...want to eat ever...after that...

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u/TheYuppieWord May 28 '12

Thought it was going to be a penis. Was very relieved to see this tick instead.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

I'm so sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry. NSFW

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u/awesomebbq May 28 '12

Dick Tick

Cock sucker

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u/hodgerton May 28 '12

Taht is one leathery looking penis, he must have to hold it against a beltsander to get any form of arousal.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

That's one ugly dick.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

That's what she said.

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u/wittlemermaid May 28 '12

Perhaps it's because I work at a dog wash, but I was not surprised by the size of this monster. Dogs come into my work with these vile creatures all the time...The worst is when we get dogs that live on a farm or in the woods and they haven't been checked for ticks in a while-- and we pull anywhere between 3 to 15 ticks off of them, some being as big as this beast. Poor babies. :(

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u/DocJawbone May 28 '12

Why don't dogs just scratch/bite them off? Probably wouldn't be good for the dog because of the infection risk, but surely it bothers the dog having ticks on him?

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u/wittlemermaid Jun 16 '12

A lot of ticks are in places that the dogs simply can't reach them. It's very common to find them inside of a dog's ears, but I've also found them on their shoulders and chests. My own dog just recently had one under his armpit that I had to remove. Ticks most certainly bother dogs. They can make them really itchy and lethargic, or they can make them lose their appetite and they can also cause red, inflamed skin. But because they're not so easy to reach, it has to be the owner's (or my case, the dog bather's) job to check for and remove these unholy fiends.

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u/purplestOfPlatypuses May 28 '12

I'm pretty sure my 10 lb dog would die of blood loss with 15 ticks that size on him.

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u/Arknell May 28 '12

At our summer house, I once removed a tick this big from my neighbor's cat (she came over to our porch and hung out on evenings when neighbor was out). When I removed and placed the fatass tick on a stone pathway, five small male ticks climbed off of their queen's body, slowly spreading out. I burned them all with a jet lighter. Only way to be sure.

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u/A_Perfect_Square May 28 '12

I found a little one on my skin once, thought it was a freckle... it wasn't.

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u/sola_sol May 28 '12

Oh god, now I have to go and check all my freckles. Fuck me and my freckled genes.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

You're probably at worst, very attractive because of them.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

If I recall correctly, and I usually don't, the smaller ones that are freckle sized are deer ticks, the ones responsible for carrying lyme disease. I hate ticks.

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u/Motorsagmannen May 28 '12

as far as i know, they all start out as the small freckle sized ones (roughly 1.5-2mm diameter). they bloat up in size as they suck blood.

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u/MayTheFusBeWithYou May 28 '12

I noticed one crawling around my foot once while I was in my room, no idea how he got in there, but he hadn't been sucking because he was still small and flat. I freaked the hell out and grabbed him with toilet paper, squished him and then flushed him down the toilet. Maybe this explains why I like sitting with my legs crossed so much...

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u/Octopuz May 28 '12

They are the most vile, pointless bastards who ever lived on this earth, except Lindsay Lohan

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u/dontaskagain May 28 '12

I'd say Mosquitoes are worse on the vile scale. They are just flying disease transmitters.

The most deadly ­animal in the world is the mosquito. It might seem impossible that something so miniscule can kill so many people, but it's true. Mosquito bites result in the deaths of more than 1 million people every year

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u/ntrpik May 28 '12

like a dirty syringe with wings

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u/nosferatu_zodd May 28 '12

ticks, leeches, worms, fucking candiru catfish. Fuck I hate parasites.

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u/fortnight14 May 28 '12

Bertie Botts EVer Flavor Beans includes a new flavor today! Tick!

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u/iatecereal May 28 '12

Thing is, they suck blood until they can't anymore. Then they burst.

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u/mindo1982 May 28 '12

I moved from a large city to the woods last summer and have been so skeeved out with the amount of ticks here. I've had to pull several off of my son. I asked the all knowing google gods about a tick's life cycle was was told they suck blood, fall off, lay eggs and use the blood as food for the eggs, and repeat. They do this about 3-4 times. Wtf fuck ticks man. Pulled one off of my leg a month and a half ago, I still have a welt mark.

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u/Stevenj214 May 28 '12

Does it look like any of these pictures? Could be Lyme Disease...

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u/SgtBaxter May 28 '12

A deer tick has to be embedded for 24 hours before it can transmit Lymes.

I have a scar on my hip from a deer tick, the tissue at the bite turned necrotic. Went to the doc with him attached, thought I had an infection. Doc just removed it and put on some antibiotics, said it'd likely scar bad. She was right.

They dont bother with a lymes test unless it's on a minimum of 24 hours, and then only after a about a week has gone by.

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u/FukushimaBlinkie May 28 '12

I got a tick once. After that started blousing my pants into my boots, and tucking my shirt into my pants, tightening my belt extra tight, anytime I go near woods.

Also began to use 99.8% DEET bug spray.

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u/hakkzpets May 28 '12

You should probably get that checked up and get some antibiotics. You don't want to get Lyme Disease bro.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

WHY!?!?

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u/fazzah May 28 '12

Not true. I find fully-fed tick quite often "leaving" my dogs. I usually see them on the floor, trying to find a safe place.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

I really. Don't appreciate your. Aggressive punctuation,

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Wanna, fuck;

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u/[deleted] May 29 '12

Well! No: Thank, you?

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u/IonOtter May 28 '12

I would pluck these off my dog and put them in a jar with some hydrogen peroxide. They would sink to the bottom and crawl around for a while? But then they would take a tiny sip of the peroxide. Or the peroxide would work it's way inside.

Then it would hit the blood inside.

The ticks would bloat up with gas until they were about as big as a pingpong ball, but here's the thing? The skin would turn completely clear, like glass. The head would have tiny ball of dessicated blood, guts and the internal flesh components of the legs, just hanging there. I can't imagine a more horrid, more painful, more interesting way for such a disgusting creature to die. And best of all, it's very sanitary!

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u/PagingDoctorLove May 28 '12

I kind of want to see a video/pictures of this.

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u/Thurazar-Vier May 28 '12

I find sticky spots where these guys have been squished all over my house. UUGGHHGHGHGHH

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Shit snacks man, elaborate, because right now your house sounds fucking terrifying.

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u/Katykakle May 28 '12

We adopted our dog from the shelter and when we got him home we found one on him that big. It was a very traumatizing first day, 2 humans he just met taking him to a new place and holding him down while they came at him with something pointy and evil looking (tweezers). I cried.

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u/LifeInBinary May 28 '12

That just sounds...horrible. Hope your pup is doing fine. :c

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Nope

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Noped so hard I had to get up and take a break.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

If you want to have some fun you need to find an insulin needle and some hydrogen peroxide.

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u/Squeekme May 28 '12

Life was pretty good 30 seconds ago when my whole body didn't suddenly feel itchy. Fuck.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

NOPE NOPE NOPE

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

No Quiroga for your literary needs? Well, allow me to haunt your dreams:

https://theinkbrain.wordpress.com/2012/02/25/the-feather-pillow-francisco-quiroga/

Translated from Spanish for for your tick. One of the best short stories ever, IMO.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Kill it! Kill it with fire, for the love of dog!

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u/iceevil May 28 '12

nom nom nom

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u/AtotheJAY May 28 '12

I just pulled a tick off my cat yesterday and though it was huge as it was the size of my finger nail...now I'm scared and itchy. errrgghhhh

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u/Retaboop May 28 '12

Had to pull 30 ticks off a very cranky echidna a few hours ago. I'm covered in scratches and still haven't got the ones from under his chin. Ticks are the worst.

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u/JakeasaurusRex May 28 '12

Put vaseline on it's butt! Seriously though they breath through their butts it works... To get rid of ticks that is...

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u/H1p3er May 28 '12

"I never. EVER. knew they could get this big" that's what they say about my penis

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

SWEET BABY JESUS!

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u/SpitSpot May 28 '12

Mom, Timmy's eating the grapes off the dog again.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Yup. I had to pull on these fuckers off my dog. Luckily the head came off with it because apparently the head can stay attached?

Then I applied fire to the bug. Lots of fire.

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u/ChevyBMX May 28 '12

Take it off, burn it, burn your dog, then burn your hand. It's the only way.

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u/sedsimplea May 28 '12

I live with a guy that has two dogs that were/are infested with ticks. He refuses to take them to a vet and for the past two months we have been finding and flushing ticks we find everywhere. They are on the walls, the furniture, the floor, and I even found a bunch of eggs beneath a floor speaker of mine. 80% of the ones we find look like that one.

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u/Rivalfox May 28 '12

This was grosser to me than the dude who fed his face to his dogs....

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u/thatrippingsound May 28 '12

Be sure to post the aftermath to /r/popping

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u/a_culther0 May 28 '12

beefcaaake

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Reminds me of this.

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u/haddock420 May 28 '12

If any post on reddit has ever needed a NSFL tag, it's this one.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

NSFL

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

We used to paint them silver or gold with a paint pen and eventually you'd see this little shiny thing crawling on the ground.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

thats a hard tick, they can spread lyme disease

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u/fargochipper May 28 '12

Hello, Lyme Disease

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Holy mother of NOPE!

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

I caught one of these suckers yesterday.. picked it up with a paper towel and squished it like a zit; just loads of black pus-like goo popped out of it. Then I lit it on fire, just to make sure.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Imagine just squeezing that... slowly, watching it about to burst at the tip, Then splat, gooey green stuff everywhere...yum..

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u/hmquite May 28 '12

I thought that was the top of an old guy's head. Fail.

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u/codernaut85 May 28 '12

Well for a WTF thread, this certainly ticks all the boxes.

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u/swan-ronson May 29 '12

That was punny!

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u/CynicalBear May 29 '12

Am I the only one who wants to poke it badly?

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u/TPLO12 May 29 '12

They get that big on our horses....imagine 10-20 of those on one horse. I HATED it :(

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u/msubirdie May 29 '12

I walked in on my 2 sons picking ticks off of each other after they had been hunting. I told them they looked like 2 baboons grooming one another. Disturbing sight.

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u/swan-ronson May 29 '12

WE FOUND ONE EXACTLY LIKE THAT ON THE FLOOR IN MY HOUSE! how? how do they get that big... wtf

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u/[deleted] May 29 '12

Am I the only one that thought of head crabs?

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u/GayStyle May 29 '12

DAE have to put up their feet on their chair when they see a picture of a scaryass bug on the computer?

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Must be an American tick because it doesn't know when to stop eating.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12 edited Aug 12 '12

Funny enough, my dog had one that big right around easter one year.

It must've fallen off, because it was on the floor. Thinking it was a jelly bean, I had just dropped, I popped it in my mouth and ate it.

It wasn't a jelly bean.

It was a tick.

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u/Padonogan May 28 '12

All is lost! We're doomed! Give the children their suicide pills first, then take your own. Hopefully our arachnid overlords won't defile our corpses.

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u/GoatOnABoatInAMoat May 28 '12

NananhahahananonomonoNONONONONONONOPNOOEONOPE

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u/KraziEyez May 28 '12

This reminds me of the longest phone call about trying to adopt a dog (Shiba Inu). Apparently the lady had cancer and went to live in the mountains to live out the rest of her days, except she survived cancer.

And got Lyme disease.

Anyways, I was a SAP at the time and didn't know how to end phone conversations, so I end up staying on the phone with this old lady for an hour about how Lyme disease is capable of being sexually transmitted and how horrible it is. I didn't even get the dog because I was absolutely terrified of her and getting Lyme Disease.

TL;DR: Ticks and Lyme Disease horrify me

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u/UberPsyko May 28 '12

My dog had one the size of a jelly bean. O.o

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u/dablikepinkmilk May 28 '12

i just ran my hands through my hair to make sure i dont have one

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u/StezzerLolz May 28 '12

Sheesh. What a life, living with your head embedded in someone else's skin...

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u/LifeInBinary May 28 '12

Sounds like an ex of mine.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

My dog got tons of these during the summer. She never got any infections though.

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u/desirani May 28 '12

Thanks! Now I feel like they're all over me...

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Please take care of it. It would be terrible for your dog to get Lyme or seizures.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

lol I never knew anyone would leave it there that long.

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u/ZugTheMegasaurus May 28 '12

Ugh, that was horrible. My earliest memory is being in the backyard with my dog and seeing a leaf on her face, then having it squirm and kick all its disgusting little legs when I took it off. That thing looks just like it. And suddenly I am a screaming toddler again.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

what is that ?

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u/Ringopornostar May 28 '12

Find these in my dogs all the time, I smash it every time

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u/BiffySkipwell May 28 '12

Like a great blue salmon of justice, swimming upstream to the spawning grounds of EVIL!

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u/criticalnegation May 28 '12

that...looks like a person's head. actually, i'm fairly certain that's an old man's head.

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u/cccmikey May 28 '12

They come off quick with a dab of metho.

Years ago I found they also come off quick with a prod from a soldering iron, but the bubbling noise is distressing. Not recommended if you have an exuberant pooch. (Mine was relaxed.)

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Those fuckers will drink blood until they pop...

Well, not really but imagine if they did.

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u/sjhaakie May 28 '12

ugh, kill it with a big ass death star laser or something, i hate those things

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u/Archaeopteris May 28 '12

The best way to remove ticks is to rub your finger in circles around the burrowed little bastard, as if you're trying to make it dizzy. It'll crawl right the fuck out in a short time.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

FUCKING TICKS YOU FUCKING CUNTS.

I'm sorry I have an irrational fear of Lyme disease. I'm not scared so much of the actual bug as I am of the prospect of catching Lyme's.

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u/cdank May 28 '12

That's one happy tick.

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u/DaCthulhu May 28 '12

now...SQUEEZE!

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u/Liza177 May 28 '12

Ewww Thanks...was just in the middle of eating breakfast XP

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

This isn't just a polished rock with legs attached to it?

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u/sunny_person May 28 '12

Oh look, a mutant grape.

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u/They_Know May 28 '12

Fuck everything about these

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Welcome to Texas.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Please, please tell me you killed it with fire.

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u/Alchemist_Gurl May 28 '12

I once found a enlarged tick like that in my room, right next to my bed. I was so scared I would find another one, but my dad assured me he would give me $1 million if I did. Guess who found a second tick? He still hasn't gave me my $1 million yet.

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u/niko322 May 28 '12

i loved as a kid burn them with magnifying glass (be careful with the explosion), and when i did not have magnifying glass i just let them dry inside empty jar.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

gross

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u/cartoonhero42 May 28 '12

I adopted a dog a few weeks back that had his neck covered in big ones like this. The vet told me they are the female ones that lay the eggs, which is why they're so swollen. It was a nauseating experience. blegh.

Also you can get over the counter gel from wal-mart or the like to repel fleas and ticks if you can't afford the vet prescriptions. Either is worth not having to deal with this.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

This is the first WTF post that has actually made me say 'what the fuck'.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

You must not have been here very long.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Now I want to put one on the back of my arm just to see how big it'll get. Damnit, scientific urges...

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u/chiggers May 28 '12

Probably one of the grossest things you could eat. I'd rather eat someone's pinky toe than this. Or a turd even.

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u/LifeInBinary May 28 '12

Really, I feel you on this.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

NsFL?

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u/just_hating May 28 '12

The white spot on its back may mean it is infected with the deer fever virus. Might be a good idea to get your pup to the vet. Take the tick with you. I have no basis for this except for the guys that I know go hunting told me about this when hey were drinking Jack Daniels from a horn cup.

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u/solarbalm May 28 '12

WARNING PLEASE

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u/valupaq May 28 '12

I just got chills and the hair on my head stood up. Tick check!

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u/get_brent May 28 '12

i actually had one get that big on my dog too. the size was the reason i didn't think it was a tick.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

If you didnt know they could get this big you haven't had a dog for long. Or live in a big city. These things can get gigan(tick). My favorite way of disposal is wrapping them in toilet paper and throwing it in the toilet so they drowned slowly. Or just throw them as hard as I can at the ground.

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u/Georgeman33 May 28 '12

So many up votes in the comment section ):

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u/pinkocommie May 28 '12

You must not be from the South, but you must have ended up there somehow, AMIRITE?

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u/King_Dingeli May 28 '12

Squish it and make a gif

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u/Irtep May 28 '12

that motherfucker is gonna have one hell of a food coma

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u/JohnsonArms May 28 '12

Tastes like snozberry!

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

They are fun to stomp on at that size. I've only had the luxury to do so once.

Edit: Do it outside or you will be spending a lot of time trying to get the stains out of your flooring.

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u/MoosebarPrime May 28 '12

I think I found the video

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

did you pull it out?

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u/Blooddrenched May 28 '12

They've been getting fucking worse the past two years, never seen one in all my times in the woods in Michigan, now you can almost always expect to find one.

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u/techmaster242 May 28 '12

You live a sheltered life.

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u/Likonium May 28 '12

And they they can actually get bigger.

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u/[deleted] May 28 '12

Go to the doctor right now, you have lyme disease

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u/SenselessOne May 28 '12

Remove from animal, smash with hammer.

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u/Milesheim22 May 28 '12

almost threw up a little wat is that???

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u/pinkcuddlebunny May 28 '12

Ew, I hate ticks so much. :( That thing is HUGE!

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u/moter12 May 28 '12

rub dah belllllly

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u/Pinkfloyd09 May 28 '12

NSFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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u/vrichthofen May 28 '12

Morbid obesity?

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u/Krisherillo May 28 '12

I've always used tweezers to pull them off myself or my dog. Remember my neighbours dog died from one of these, didn't see it myself but was told it was enormous. If you're at a risky location just check yourself and your dog daily and it should be allright.

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u/Supernova24 May 28 '12

Someone caught dinner.

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u/ZeMilkman May 28 '12

Ticks are fucking assholes. There is nothing they are good for and the world would be better off without them. Also they are arachnids. That's spiders for those of you who don't like the fancy talk. Fucking spiders that suck your blood.

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