{"id":7812,"date":"2019-07-29T10:23:46","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T14:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ticks\/?p=7812"},"modified":"2025-08-19T12:02:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:02:52","slug":"tip-6-always-have-pointy-tweezers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/ticksmart-tips\/tip-6-always-have-pointy-tweezers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip #6: Always have pointy tweezers and a ziplock bag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you don\u2019t have one, it\u2019s important to be prepared by having a good pointy tweezers for safe tick removal in your home and car. You might want to try\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Patented-Stainless-Tweezers-Formerly-TickEase\/dp\/B0C3G2RHBM\/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.83No0aUDUHD2BgEJSuFb2jSvZ-M1BLbn9kFs5YQp_brKwrCfinCcAKM37i0-d7DBScaQiad3CP4XPVSX6Nqq_BifyeadGPX4twH8MIuh-z3YAhFMAxWCLeQZhOEa--VrGYOZexWXNDy_r2lYgdmzQDH6J9tgRcV3bNCVYO6Ssb3Y5D-PkXorh-k3nvmH2C5RkXclx8NI0ULTzfP__cdgXGCDi1U7em3gHO50Q-qsSh0.uHfLuZx3LcyRiRipA8Bbb2sjcO3rFpwy5pqqkK1Tots&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;hvadid=693448751482&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvexpln=67&amp;hvlocphy=9002225&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvocijid=4566328836731164663--&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvrand=4566328836731164663&amp;hvtargid=kwd-2125123092453&amp;hydadcr=9249_13689241&amp;keywords=bug%2Bbite%2Bthing%2Btick%2Bremover&amp;mcid=0e2a0c62f6523c349f3cf50b621b9d38&amp;qid=1755618269&amp;sr=8-1&amp;th=1\">Bug Bite Thing Tick Remover<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainelyticks.com\/protickme-kit.html\">ProTickMe<\/a>, or another pointy-tipped tweezer. Both of the ones linked are very reasonably priced. Keep the tweezer in a ziplock bag so you always have something on hand to securely save the tick in when you use the tweezers to remove it.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-share-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-share color  \"><div class=\"cl-share-label\">Share:<\/div><ul class=\"cl-share-buttons\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Tip #6: Always have pointy tweezers and a ziplock bag&amp;url=https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/ticksmart-tips\/tip-6-always-have-pointy-tweezers\/\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"cl-share-twitter share-twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/ticksmart-tips\/tip-6-always-have-pointy-tweezers\/\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"cl-share-facebook share-facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you don\u2019t have one, it\u2019s important to be prepared by having a good pointy tweezers for safe tick removal in your home and car. You might want to try\u00a0Bug Bite Thing Tick Remover,\u00a0ProTickMe, or another pointy-tipped tweezer. Both of the ones linked are very reasonably priced. Keep the tweezer in a ziplock bag so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1338,"featured_media":16453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ticksmart-tips"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7812"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25861,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7812\/revisions\/25861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}