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On dogs my friend likes to strike a match, touch the extinguished tip to the back of the tick, and then pull it out with tweezers. Seems to work
by aorloff 3mo ago
On dogs my friend likes to strike a match, touch the extinguished tip to the back of the tick, and then pull it out with tweezers. Seems to work
- sciencejerk 3mo agoFrom experience, you might end up with 2nd degree burns and burn the bugger into a hot crispy pile of ash.
- LargoLasskhyfv 3mo agoNow that you say it... Makes me wonder of what would happen when you'd use the tips of two blank wires connected to a 1.5V battery? ZAP! Could be made into a small USB-gadget, to have it always available? Zaptastick!
- bookofjoe 3mo agoI like this. Better: ZapStick!
- LargoLasskhyfv 3mo agoI actually searched for things like that after posting. It's already a thing*, in many different variations. Some use piezo-electrics, advertised as 'battery free'. And countless other stuff, many with some variation of Zap(p) in their names. *Sort of, didn't see small 'passive' ones powered by USB. Edit: Thinking about it, one could abuse and modify one of the countless e-vapes for it? Small enough in most cases, and self-powered.
- bookofjoe 3mo agoThis is your ticket to $$$. All you need is a friend with Steve Wozniak-like capability and Bob's your uncle.
- LargoLasskhyfv 3mo agoNot interested in $$$/€€€. Already have enough of those. As a personal project probably. But not commercially. That would be too much of a hassle. Which I also have enough of, already ;->
- qup 3mo agoZapsTick
- bookofjoe 3mo agoOMG YES GENIUS!
- Foobar8568 3mo agoConsidering how often dogs in my area were covered with ticks, I am surprised we never got one as teenagers, we were running or biking in the same place. 30+ years ago we would use ether to remove them, and I enjoyed burning them afterwards, it was so satisfying...