geoff till a few weeks ago i had no idea that covering them in vaserline did exactly that, made them push the contaminated blood they have helped themselves to back into the ferret /dog , its so easily avoided by using the tick pickers & i had my eyes opened for sure
i think that is how lymes disease is contracted in humans the contaminated blood of ticks going back into the wound ,pulled hundreds of in the last 30 years dogs/ ferrets/ me goes to show you cant stop learning i will get one of them tools right sharp