Saturday, 5 November 2011

Spider and tick...

Yesterday 2 things happened that has never happened before..
a.      A spider on the inside of my cap. Walking the dog in the mountain as I do every day. Halfway along I spot a black thing inside my cap looking up under my sunnies – take cap off and yes, inside the visor is a spider!!! Ahhh!  I would have liked it if my reaction was more Crocodile Dundee than it was. I am afraid I was a total girl about it and threw the cap in the grass and removed myself from it. Then carefully proceeded by kicking the cap  until spider left the premises. If anyone saw me they woudl have laughed, it looked like I was protecting myself from a hungry lion or somthing... I am not fond of spiders...
b.     When we got home from walk I noticed something on Frida’s snout. There is was – a paralysis tick. I have actually never seen one ‘live’, this was Frida’s first tick. It was like smaller version of Mr Potatohead, with legs all over her. She was burrowing herself into the snout, with all her legs crawling in the air!!!!  Creepy! I could not get her out, so we had to go to the vet and get it out, they said we caught it on time, so she should not get paralysed, but we have to keep an eye on her for the next 48 h... Yikes!  


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