My first tick - ick!

I experienced my first tick this month - eww! I normally stay inside the house but on nice weather days, I get to play outside on my lead or keep watch out on my deck. Somehow, somewhere, I picked up a hitchhiker! Hmph! Momma knew something was wrong with me and that I wasn't feeling right. I hopped on the couch and lay my head on her lap and looked up at her with my adorable puppy dog eyes. That always works for getting lots of lovins. Momma was scratching behind my ears when she felt something hard. She looked at it and shouted, "Quick, MooMoo - let's go see Daddy!" (Daddy is the chief bug killer of the house, my cat brother Merlin is a close second - bol.) Both momma and daddy spied what looked like a sunflower seed behind my ear. This was a seed alright, a bad seed! Momma and Daddy worked together to get that yukky thing off me. I didn't like sitting still but I knew they were helping me so I was a good girl. Daddy got that bad buggy off and put some rubbing alcohol on me to help clean out my boo-boo. Momma gave me a couple of treats and I started to feel better already! A few weeks later, my boo-boo is all healed up and both momma and daddy check me every time I come back inside from anywhere - I got them trained really well! Plus, I love all the attention! Well, that's my first diary entry...and hopefully my last tick...at least for a while!