TICKS

[Timberline Echoes]

I know it has already been mentioned on here that the ticks are out. Just wanted to share a tip. We keep a roll of clear office tape on the roll, (like Scotch) bolted right to my walking stick. As soon as we spot a tick we tape it up and then stick it to my stick until we can properly dispose of them. Much easier than trying to smash them.
Timberline Echoes

[EnergySaver]

So how does one properly dispose of a tick?

… Do you take them to the humane society for adoption?

… I just smash them with my handy combination tick-tack hammer … it’s great, there’s even a place in the handle to store little white mints!

[Timberline Echoes]

Hey I would like to hear ideas of proper disposal… we thought about mounting them somehow just to show the pure number, in the 100’s that we had on us during one cache search alone… but figured our friends that think geocaching is a bit odd might know that we are for sure. (just kidding in case there are any tick rights activists out there)
Timberline Echoes

[greyhounder]

Typically, when I find one on me, I fling it away in disgust. I’ve been told that rubbing alcohol kills them? Maybe bring along a small container to put them in?

Bec

[Buy_The_Tie]

I hear a .44 magnum dispatches them nicely. I do believe it is important to remove them from your person first though.

[WISearchers]

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Originally posted by Buy_The_Tie:
I hear a .44 magnum dispatches them nicely. I do believe it is important to remove them from your person first though.

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Tie to the tick,in his best Eastwood voice:

“I know what you’re thinking. “Did he fire six shots or only five?” Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?”

[Cathunter]

Like most bugs that torment us- when we are outnumbered 1,000,000 to 1, do you really think it makes any difference what we do with the few we find on us?

[Timberline Echoes]

Considering we killed somewhere in the thousands last year, our first season of geocaching we were hoping we put a dent in the population. We even wondered if we could get some type of logo going like the CITO only make the T for ticks.
Timberline Echoes

[CBMB]

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Originally posted by WISearchers:
Tie to the tick,in his best Eastwood voice:

“I know what you’re thinking. “Did he fire six shots or only five?” Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement I kind of lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you’ve got to ask yourself a question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?”

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Okay, first having spent countless hours caching w/ WISearchers, we’re going to assume that this was posted by Tony. Next we’re just going to chalk this one up to the “ticks went to his brain” and he didn’t really know what he was posting. We’re going to pretend we never read it. (But we are going to print it out so that we can taunt him with it next time we see him!…do you feel lucky Pvt?)

[CBMB]

What if I put a push pin in the top of my walking stick so that each time we found a tick we could pull it off, place it on a log, press the pin into it to kill it. We could call it a tic tack!
(bad but not quite as bad as Tony’s)
MB

[Buy_The_Tie]

Information about tics?

Here’s a Previous Posting from a while ago.

[LightningBugs Mum]

We found our first one today after visiting on of the Leopold Legacy caches. In the wild, I just flick them away. But at home, I squish them with locking medical forceps.

When I worked at a vet clinic, we had a pill vial filled with rubbing alcohol. When we found a tick on a pet, we would drop it in there. Instant death.

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[jthorson]

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Originally posted by CB&MB:
What if I put a push pin in the top of my walking stick so that each time we found a tick we could pull it off, place it on a log, press the pin into it to kill it. We could call it a tic tack!
MB

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And if that doesn’t work you could squash it with your foot which makes: tick tack toe.

[This message has been edited by jthorson (edited 04-20-2005).]

[Cachew]

Jeff, that’s tacky. Or is it ticky?

[TeamLotsacache]

Did someone say tick? SPOOOOOON!!!!!!
http://www.geocaching.com/track/details.aspx?id=46627

Sorry, couldn’t be helped!

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