We went hiking yesterday after stopping at the Ranger Station for a 2015 fire permit. We got about a half mile down the trail before we realized that dogs were covered in ticks! We stopped and pulled about 15 off of each dog (excluding Ahi - read on for her story). We leashed up the dogs and headed back to the truck. We stopped before loading up to pick off more ticks. Then we headed home, picking off more ticks in the truck as we saw them. And when we got home, we sat out on the deck and picked off about 15 more! And as long as we were on the deck we had a picnic with cheese and crackers!
Ahi had two ticks - one we picked right off but one that had already bitten her belly. Of course, we wanted to get the one in her belly off right away so we worked at picking it off. It pretty much took three of us and about 10 minutes to get it off. Imagine flipping Cujo over and trying to pick off a tiny tick! There was lots of snarling, biting and flapping lips! Seriously you would think we were trying to kill her. And we were laughing the whole time.
When we came back, Daisy went to lay on the deck and rest. A few minutes later Hops trotted from across the deck to snuggle up with her!
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