There were still patches of snow in the woods when I found my first tick of the year crawling on my jeans. It was a tiny creature, no bigger than an apple seed, but its slow, deliberate crawl up my thigh put a fear in me that no other animal in Maine can. Fortunately, despite […]
The tick on my shoulder, crawling across my green fleece jacket, was looking for a hot meal. Specifically, blood. More specifically, my blood. Standing outside our vehicle after a two-hour hike through the woods in Belfast on Oct. 23, my husband, Derek, and I were checking our clothing and our dog for ticks. We found […]
Do yourself a favor: Never look up “Lyme disease in dogs” in Google Images. It’s seriously disturbing. I know that a handful of you are doing exactly that right now. I understand. You’re too curious not to. And now you’ve seen what can’t be unseen. You’re looking at photos of puppies with their ears filled […]
