I like to think of myself as having love and understanding towards all creatures. Even spiders and snakes \u2013 fairly common phobias among humans \u2013 don\u2019t freak me out to the point where I\u2019ll actively take steps to avoid them. You could say that I have a high threshold where tolerance for creepy crawlies is concerned\u2026 just not with ticks.<\/p>\n
No, shameful as it is for me to admit, I wouldn\u2019t lose an ounce of sleep if ticks vanished from the world tomorrow, never to be seen again. The thing is, they\u2019re not just annoying (not to mention invasive and, well, enough to make most people\u2019s skin-crawl) but they can actually be dangerous.<\/p>\n
1. Identify and IsolateFigure out what kind of tick it is if possible, and keep kids and pets away from the area until it\u2019s dealt with.<\/p>\n
2. Protect YourselfWear gloves and long sleeves to avoid contact. Read more below<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I like to think of myself as having love and understanding towards all creatures. Even spiders and snakes \u2013 fairly common phobias among humans \u2013 don\u2019t freak me out to the point where I\u2019ll...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3079,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3077\/revisions\/3079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}