ticks

Cut your grass. Cut your ticks.

Ticks get ticked at short grass.

Ticks love to hide in tall grass.A great way to keep ticks from your yard is to simply cut your grass. Tall grass offers prime real estate for ticks.

Ticks love to hang out on grass, and the more you have the more burrow in. A tick will leap off the grass onto you or your pet the moment you brush against a blade.

You won’t notice a tick sitting in tall grass because a tick is very small. A tick only becomes noticeable after engorging itself on your blood. So don’t believe a blood-engorged tick when he tells you he hasn’t been up to no good. He has.

To recap: Cutting your grass will take away prime tick territory. And it goes without saying, stay away from tall grasses the next time you go for a walk.

The Correct Way to Get Rid of Ticks

There is only one correct way to remove a tick.

Remove Ticks with TweezersYou may have heard several home-remedy methods for removing ticks – burn them off, place salt or alcohol on them, rub petroleum jelly on them.

These remedies are bad, bad, bad.

Yes, the tick will die.  But in the process the tick will become stressed and release it’s toxins into your bloodstream.

The correct way to remove a tick is to grasp it firmly with tweezers as close as possible to your skin, then slowly and firmly pull the tick out without twisting.

The trick is to remove the entire tick without leaving any of its body (again, releasing toxins).  Flush the tick down a drain or toilet.  Do not crush the tick with your
fingers (remember those toxins!)

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