Boy, are you lucky then. Poor Ellie had them in her ear so bad last summer that it was pitiful. They must get really painful when they get in there because I couldn't even TOUCH her ear and if she ever bumped it on something or if Truly bumped it, the poor little thing would just about go into orbit. It got so big that it was about the size of a big gray grape and you could see it inside her little ear even through the hair. I tried to get a hold of it several times but she had such fits that I had to stop. I think that's why she gives me such fits about using the clippers on her ears now. I finally got some of that 40% permethrin spray and that killed them. I'll not let that happen again because she'll remember having ouchy ears for the rest of her life. This year's babies will get sprayed right off the bat.
The one time I found a tick on my little Zulu was after a camping trip. We were home in the living room, and I saw it on her eyelid. I thought it was some kind of abcess or wart at first. I grabbed it between my fingernails and could tell it was a tick. I pulled a little, Zulu squealed, I looked at my fingers and saw it's little face and it's legs moving around and I freaked. I threw the thing in the air. I had no idea where it landed. So I spent the next couple hours with every product I could find at the store, spraying, vacuuming, finally left and bombed the place, just freaked to not know where that thing was! I'd never seen one! Since then we had one end up on the cat at the beach house. Just one, never again.
And Zulu always had a gouge and a couple missing eyelashes where it had been.