Over the course of my life I've lived in three different Midwest states. As a result, I've been warned to watch out for ticks when hiking through the woods or tall grass. Given this, one would think that I've come across a tick in my life, but the answer is no, I haven't. At least knowingly. Maybe as a small child my parents removed a tick, but I have no memories of this. On our Upper Peninsula trip we encountered many, many, many ticks! The people up there (Yoopers!) said that it was a banner year for ticks. Every night at the campfire we found ticks crawling on our clothes. Among the four members in my family, we only found 2 attached ticks, so that's good. But every night we had to do a thorough tick check. We usually found at least one. We even stuffed our jeans into our sucks to prevent them from getting in, but they still found ways. One night I found one underneath my foot in my shoe!
Despite the large number of ticks we had a great time, and it was a learning experience for my daughters. Now when someone tells them to watch for ticks, they know what they are looking for.
Want to see a disgusting tick picture? See below. Ticks gone wild on a dog!
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This makes me glad we don't own a dog and don't have to deal with this!
Trust me, that dog was abused, too bad you don't own a dog they are awesome.
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