To avoid blood borne illnesses please only eat ticks on other species of animals.

Peak reference?

we have lizards which I've learned are one of the principle hosts of ticks. Lizards won't "collect the treated cotton and use it to line their nests." :(

I always just wait until it itches and then pull them off.

Idk, I do that on my own because I'm bored.

It’s called being a silly kitty mrroooowww :3

"Cat ear headphone people" is way funnier to me then it should be

Actually there have been very occasional cases, but they're rare enough to make it into the paper. The fact that the snow is already almost melted here doesn't bode well for the future :(

Ticks can live in cold places, but the diseases they transmit don't propagate if the ticks are inactive for long enough in the winter. Ticks themselves are harmless, only the diseases they transmit are a problem

If they are talking about the Willamette Valley, there is a natural barrier preventing ticks from making it in ( cascade mountain range on all sides, Columbia River to the north )

Ticks will need to be introduced. It is bound to happen eventually but for now there are areas without ticks that latch onto humans.

But what if I start eating them?