Ick! A Tick!

[Leslie and Halas]

Luckily, it was crawling on the floor, not on Halas.  I assume it came off of him, so does the fact that it didn't attach to him mean that his Frontline Plus is working?  Or is that supposed to keep ticks away from him entirely?  We went for a walk in the big field behind our house, and he did a lot of rolling around in the grass, and a lot of walking right along the edge of the field by the woods, so he must have picked it up there.  The tick faced death-by-flushing.

I've really checked Halas over, but it would be easy for a tick to hide in all of that fluff.  Are there specific parts of the body where they tend to attach?

I was sitting and laying by Halas for a while earlier this evening (before I saw this tick on the floor), so now I have the willies thinking I might have a tick on me.  I suppose the one I found could have come in on me instead of Halas, but I wasn't the one rolling in the grass.

Ick! Ick! Ick!

[Karen, Jasper and Jackdoodle]

Someone recently posted a recommendation of this product for removing ticks: Tick Key

[Moe]

My pup is on Advantix and still gets ticks. I pull at leas one off her every week. Some are engorged some just latched on. I have found them on every part of her including the underside of her hears. Every tick also leaves a huge scab where it bid the dog. When I'm checking her these feel like ticks too. I HATE ticks.

[Sally]

My friend's boxer tends to get ticks in his paw pads. So now after every walk including checking Duncan's entire body i look between the "toes". So far I've only found 1 on him and it wasn't engorged. It was on his front leg midway. I only noticed that he had been licking the area and his fur was wet so i inspected thinking it was a hot spot and there was the lil' bast-rd. But he slid right out so he was only caught in the fur area. I instinctually just tossed it (i was outside at a park). Dumb of me. So i don't even know if it was living or dead. Sigh!