Toby saves a stick from the fire.

So here is a WONDERFUL picture. It has one of the smaller piles of trees/shrubs/jungle cuttings on fire; it has my sweet thoughtful sweety pie; and it has silly Toby with a stick he claimed for himself to play with. A wonderful 1,000 words:

ICKY EEWW !!!! (tick on Toby's butt)

Sooo.. I found one of THESE icky nasty things on Toby's butt, right under his tail, but it was a little more of a brown color... and I thought it was a piece of poop. It is a tick nymph, or baby. What the hell is a baby tick doing this size?!? I used toilet paper (still thinking it was poop because from the top you could not see the legs) and it came off pretty easily for a tick, but it did take a decent little chunk of skin with it. Poor puppy.

When I realized the thing was alive and I did not recognize it, I had to look it up on the iternet of course. Then I had to share. Enjoy your nightmares!