Thursday, April 7, 2011

Ticks

Last week I found a tick on our Siamese cat, Lucy.  I pulled the tick out and tried to kill it.  I stompedit, pinched it with my fingers, and pinched it with my fingernails, but this insect's outside is made of steel.  I just would not die!  So I ended up flushing it down the toilet.  I got so freaked out, knowing that our cats are bringing ticks into our home that I purchased Frontline Advantage: Flea & Tick.  Two days after applying the solution, I found two ticks stuck in Lucy's skin.  Amazingly they were both dead.  THANK YOU FRONTLINE!!!  I pulled the ticks out, fur and all and here they are:

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