John Hart
07-07-2010, 4:19 PM
So here I am at work today...another hot July day, and I work at a manufacturing facility that is a campus of several buildings, concrete, and asphalt. This morning, a landscaping crew accidentally killed a mother rabbit and uncovered a nest of bunnies. They are just about ready to go off on their own but not quite.
Anyway..the bunnies scattered, ran across the street to our facility, where they crouched quivering in the concrete jungle of our facilty. By 2:00pm this afternoon, they were pretty well cooked and lithargic so I decided to rescue them and give them a new home out at my property where they will probably be happy.
I filled a box with grass and clover and gave them a little dish of water....to cool out and relax til the end of the day.
One bunny had a big tick on his head, and I was a bit concerned about his health, so I wanted to remove it.
I know that the standard way to remove a tick is with fishing line or tweezers...but I thought I should search around and see if there were any alternatives.
A co-worker said..."Hey...I've never done it...but try this"....and he showed me an email, forwarded a billion times, about a cool way to remove ticks.
Take a cotton ball, put a blob of liquid dishwashing soap on it, then hold it gently on the tick's back for 15 seconds.
I said, "No way!!...that ain't gonna work!!"
But I tried it anyway...and sure enough...the tick immediately abandoned his grip and was off the bunny.
I was amazed.
When I get home this afternoon, I'll take some pics before I give the rabbits to my daughters. (who will promptly adopt them and get them ready for their new home in the marsh)
Anyway..the bunnies scattered, ran across the street to our facility, where they crouched quivering in the concrete jungle of our facilty. By 2:00pm this afternoon, they were pretty well cooked and lithargic so I decided to rescue them and give them a new home out at my property where they will probably be happy.
I filled a box with grass and clover and gave them a little dish of water....to cool out and relax til the end of the day.
One bunny had a big tick on his head, and I was a bit concerned about his health, so I wanted to remove it.
I know that the standard way to remove a tick is with fishing line or tweezers...but I thought I should search around and see if there were any alternatives.
A co-worker said..."Hey...I've never done it...but try this"....and he showed me an email, forwarded a billion times, about a cool way to remove ticks.
Take a cotton ball, put a blob of liquid dishwashing soap on it, then hold it gently on the tick's back for 15 seconds.
I said, "No way!!...that ain't gonna work!!"
But I tried it anyway...and sure enough...the tick immediately abandoned his grip and was off the bunny.
I was amazed.
When I get home this afternoon, I'll take some pics before I give the rabbits to my daughters. (who will promptly adopt them and get them ready for their new home in the marsh)