alt Hacker NewsOn 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
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sciencejerk • today at 5:54 AM
From experience, you might end up with 2nd degree burns and burn the bugger into a hot crispy pile of ash.
LargoLasskhyfv • today at 8:13 AM
Now 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!
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Considering 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...