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Long ago and far away. And unforgettable. July 2005

How does a tick know when it has reached the back of my dog's neck?

A beautiful blonde dog with her cuddly toy

The best suggestion yet, from my friend Massimo, is that ticks feed on arterial blood and they use some sort of heat-seaking mechanism to go where the vessels are nearest the surface. Plausible, but I don’t buy it. Not yet. Not entirely.

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