Ticks on a snake [excellent metaphor material]

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[krb]

Ticks on a snake:

[OneWingedShark]

>Parasites in general are gross (with a possible few exceptions).

I’d think leeches would be that exception; they’re currently the best thing for re-attaching fingers and such because their method of drawing blood increases the bloodflow.

[goat granny]

LOL sounds like you were a typical boy. God bless you and your saintly mother. :O)

[Shimmer1]

haha, take yer pick.

[S.O.S121.500]

That is the way I always heard it.........BEYOND useless.

[dayglored]

>> Parasites in general are gross (with a possible few exceptions).

> I’d think leeches would be that exception; they’re currently the best thing for re-attaching fingers and such because their method of drawing blood increases the bloodflow.

Yep, leeches are okay.

Maggots, on the other hand... Years ago as a wildlife rehabilitator I often had to clean out the wounds, and sometimes the eyes and ears, of little creatures that had been abandoned long enough that they were maggot infested. Nothing turns my stomach like a baby animal whose poor little face is covered in a squirming mass of maggots. Ye gods, awful!

By comparison, tapeworms, roundworms, even ticks, aren't so bad. [Shudder!]

[Shimmer1]

ping

[ladyvet]

As a teen I worked at a company that dealt with exotic animals and reptiles. This was the norm when reptiles caught in the wild were sent to us. The tortoise had ticks packed in the hollow area where there legs meet the shell. Could spend hours picking ticks on a big shipment.

[liberalh8ter]

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[treetopsandroofs]

Still pretty disgusting, but I understand maggots are used

“for debriding non-healing necrotic skin and soft tissue wounds, including pressure ulcers, venous stasis ulcers, neuropathic foot ulcers, and non-healing traumatic or post-surgical wounds.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggot_therapy

[SamAdams76]

People make it way too complicated to remove ticks from animals. The notched spoon below costs about $1.99 and it takes ticks right off, head included everytime.

Parasites are disgusting and I am definitely on the snake's side here. However, I cannot imagine how it was possible for that many ticks to get on a snake. I'm thinking some sick bastard trapped the snake, nailed it to a board where it couldn't move, and manually planted all those ticks onto it.

[goat granny]

The hospital my girlfriend worked at had the police bring in a bum that had a large lesion on his leg full of maggots. ER wouldn't remove them, they bandaged it and sent him to the floor...she had the job of using tweezers and picking them all off and dropping them into a jar of alcohol....gross but she said it was the cleanest wound she ever saw....they are great debriders and only eat dead flesh. When used for hospitals, they are raised in sterile conditions and put on a 4 x 4 dressing and then applied to the wound...very tiny and you cannot even feel them, when they get big, dressing removed and fresh one with just hatched maggots reapplied...cleans wounds especially on diabetics that don't heal well....this is sure an old freeper articles....:O)

[goat granny]

this one sure is old...I had to go back to find it in my account...LOL