[goat granny]

I love snakes also but ticks are easy to remove. Years back one of my neighbors sons had an iguana and it had 3 ticks on it...She was grossed out just by the iguana, so she called me down to take the ticks off....I used tweezers but covering it with vaseline I think caused the tick to back out. also a match blown out immediately and put on the tick causes it to back out also...her kids were thrilled I got them off, but she was still grossed out when I got the iguana back in its cage....Raised 4 son's was use to such things, red belly snake in the garage, buckets of tadpoles also...you get use to it...

[goodnesswins]

I found out that by just twirling ticks you can get them to pop out on their own....they get dizzy....did it for some on our dog.

[Flycatcher]

I've heard that about vaseline and ticks too. It works on humans, from what I understand. When covered in vaseline, the ticks can't breathe, so they back out.

As for your four sons, I could be one of them. I grew up in the country with wild lizards, polliwogs, frogs, catfish, and snakes as pets, at one time or another.

Looking back at it now, my poor mom must have been a saint! Ha ha!

[SamAdams76]

People make it way too complicated to remove ticks from animals. The notched spoon below costs about $1.99 and it takes ticks right off, head included everytime.

Parasites are disgusting and I am definitely on the snake's side here. However, I cannot imagine how it was possible for that many ticks to get on a snake. I'm thinking some sick bastard trapped the snake, nailed it to a board where it couldn't move, and manually planted all those ticks onto it.