Tick..........Very large!

[cooper1841]

We own a grooming shop, my wife pulled this monster off one of her clients dogs. Check yourselfguys, they get big, and its a bad year for them in our area!

 

[jeff of pa]

most Likely wood tic.

other then a nuisance, Don't carry Lyme.

had one on my chest once.
Dug it out with my fingernails.
took over a rear to heal enough to
make the scar invisible

 

[dholland02]

I used to be a logger would get them all the time. They are wood ticks, a deer ticks r so small there hard to see.

 

[wheatfinder13]

Nasty

 

[WVPapaw]

We own a grooming shop, my wife pulled this monster off one of her clients dogs. Check yourselfguys, they get big, and its a bad year for them in our area!

Yuck....that thing is ugly. The regular size ones are bad enough. I am learning to use repellant every time I detect. Otherwise I either find a tick on me or think I feel them crawling on me from the power of suggestion I guess.

 

[DeepseekerADS]

Yep, wood tick.

I'd never seen a deer tick until last year - and yes, tiny. We didn't have them in SW Virginia, and now they're here in zillions.

Some of my friends who hunt say that when they bag a deer, there's hundreds on them.

Last year I was walking my property line, watching of snakes, didn't touch bushes and such if I could help it - worried about the wood ticks.

I had deer ticks all over me - dozens, almost didn't even notice them. Found three had already bitten in. Pulled them off and stang like crazy and itched for weeks - yes weeks.

One in particular 2 months later was still healing. All 3 left scars. Wood ticks didn't leave scars.

I did go to a doctors several months later out of concern. He said it didn't look like I had Lyme - no circle rash around the bites. But he did script me anti-biotics just in case.

I don't think I need to walk my property line this year. These little nasty things now get my respect.

 

[SusanMN]

Looks like a wood tick who has been feeding for a while.