I’m Sexy and I know it!
That’s right! I know it because I’m a TICK magnet!
I’ve had 3 tick bites so far this Spring. They FREAK me out!
Wes and Madison haven’t had ONE tick bite and they’ve been doing a lot of BushWacking (because we’ve gotten into GeoCaching). Not one on either of them.
I’m not complaining, don’t get me wrong. I’m SUPER glad neither of them have had one.
I just don’t understand what it is about ME that they love! Just me and Brody. We’ve found 5 ticks on Brody. Two of them had just jumped on for a ride and hadn’t sunk their fangs in yet. Friggin’ ticks!
This winter was so mild, we didn’t have enough freezing days in a row to kill them off, apparently. (According to our Vet.)
We are religious about doing Brody’s Flea and Tick treatment.
I use Tea Tree oil products on my hair once a week. I don’t wipe myself down with Deet every time I go outside. That would get old after about the 5 time each day.
Eat more onions?
Bathe in Tea Tree oil every morning?
Hang a string of garlic around my neck?
I’m seriously thinking this might be my best option!
(Found at Amazon.)
Seriously, anyone have any Tick Avoidance advice? (Other than “Don’t go outside”.) I’m kind of desperate here!
We geocache, too! Have you tried waymarking? They’re virtual caches, where you have to get a picture of you with a certain object and post it on the site.
The only time we’ve had trouble with ticks while doing so was in Arkansas one July – the girl & I put on some sort of bug repellant, but the hubby didn’t. I had nightmares for days, since I was the one who got to remove all those nasty things off him. Luckily bleach water did it fairly easily.
Doesn’t DEET come in a spray form too?? I would live in that if ticks liked me like they like you… ewwwwww, can’t stand ’em! Can you have the exterminator spray your yard during the summer? Are there plants that they don’t like?? Now I’m all itchy!!!
I have no idea about ticks can hurt people, only animals.
I’m a flea magnet, and once I saw in my mixrobiology class.
People with magnet for flea or others are magnets
Because generate more carbon dioxide, and that us the magnet.
Sorry for my English.
Oh, and yeah, OBVIOUSLY you’re sexy. Ticks don’t bite people who aren’t. It’s a little-known fact.
Dang! I’m sure you’d rock that sweet bee-keeper outfit, though. Not to scare the craps out of you, but my cousin (in Arkansas) just got Lyme disease last summer, and then my husband told me about his uncle who died from Lyme disease, and now I am petrified of ticks. I had one when I was 10, and Saylor had two when she was 3. They are freaky. Yuck. I hope you find a solution, and then share it with me. Cause, like I said, petrified.