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Dan Wolff - aka Tick Man Dan - of Waltham MA, is an entrepreneur and TICKfluencer who founded a company called TickEase, Inc. The company manufactured the TickEase tick remover, the only patented, CDC-compliant, two-sided tweezer created expressly for removal of embedded ticks from people and pets. In 2023, TickEase was sold to Bug Bite Thing, Inc. (a Shark Tank Company) who continue to market and sell the product under their own brand name.

A sought-after speaker, Wolff is an expert and educator on tick behavior, anatomy and life cycle, as well as how to check for and remove embedded ticks.

Tick Man Dan is a preferred prevention partner of the University of Rhode Island’s TickEncounter Resource Center.

Wolff also holds 4 patents and received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Skidmore College. He currently resides in Waltham, MA with his wife, son and Henry the hound dog.

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Announcer: So get ready for the pause and applause as we unleash your Oh Behave host, America's Pet Edutainer, Arden Moore.

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Arden Moore: Welcome to the Oh Behave Show on Pet Life Radio.

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Arden Moore: I'm your host, Arden Moore.

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Arden Moore: There is a reason tics rhyme with Ick.

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Arden Moore: They are Icky and they've been on our planet for eons.

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Arden Moore: They're always looking to grab a blood meal from you, your dog, your cat.

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Arden Moore: But guess what?

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Arden Moore: We have a tic superhero on our show today.

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Arden Moore: He will arm us with tips and tricks and some tic puns.

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Arden Moore: Wait for it.

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Arden Moore: Yep.

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Arden Moore: Yep.

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Arden Moore: To help us deal with this nasty beast.

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Arden Moore: So at this time, please give pause and a pause.

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Arden Moore: He's called Tick Man Dan Wolff.

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Arden Moore: But we got to pay for this show by taking a quick break.

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Arden Moore: We'll be right back.

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Announcer: Let's Talk Pets on petliferadio.com Oh Behave is back with more tail wagging ways to achieve Harmony in the household with your pets.

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Announcer: Now back to your fetching host, America's Pet Edutainer, Arden Moore.

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Arden Moore: Welcome back to the Oh Behave show on Pet Life Radio.

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Arden Moore: I'm your host, Arden Moore.

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Arden Moore: Welcome to the show, Dan.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Thank you, Arden.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: It is a pleasure to be here.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: I'm so glad that we got introduced by some mutual friends and happy to spread the good word about ticks.

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Arden Moore: Yeah, we're going to give a shout out.

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Arden Moore: Jared and Kara Armour, they live in Massachusetts, as does Tick Man Dan, and they introduced me about you.

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Arden Moore: So I'm delighted.

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Arden Moore: I'm ready to dig in to talk about ticks.

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Arden Moore: But before I do, this show also goes on YouTube.

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Arden Moore: And so, Dan, you need to tell people for the ones just listening, what are you wearing?

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Well, this is a Tic T.

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Arden Moore: Tic t-shirt, okay.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And it's part of my uniform as Tick Man Dan.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And the idea is certainly not to make fun of anything, but it's to get noticed.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Oh yeah.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Even when I'm wandering around, if I can get somebody to just look at it and go, Oh, what is that?

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: I can tell them.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: A lot of people actually mistaken Tics for spiders.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And so when I'm walking around, a lot of people go, Oh, that's a gross spider.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And then I get a chance to engage in a conversation with them and let them know that, no, this is a Tic and how dangerous it can be.

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Arden Moore: There's other things that you have on you that are also Tic related.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Yes.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: I often refer to this to tell my time and well, tell people that are just listening as a podcast.

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Arden Moore: What is that you're holding up?

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: It's my Tic watch and it has an adult female deer Tic on it.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And when you listen to it, it says Tic Tic Tic Tic Tic Tic Tic.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And I also have and I'm going to show you my very sexy legs.

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Arden Moore: So OK, guys, settle down.

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Arden Moore: Who's shown his calf?

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Arden Moore: Oh my God.

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Arden Moore: Two Tics.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: The Tic tattoos that I have.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: This is a Lone Star and this is a deer Tic.

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Arden Moore: Oh my God.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Those tattooed on my leg.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: So actually, when I talk to people, I tell them, Oh, and by the way, I have two Tics on my leg right now.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And they go, no.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: I go, yes, I promise you, I have two Tics on my leg.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And then I pull up, pull up my pants and the joke is revealed.

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Arden Moore: I'm so glad it's on your calf muscle.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Well, you don't know where my other ones are.

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Arden Moore: I'm not asking.

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Arden Moore: Well, the show is called Oh Behave.

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Arden Moore: But the point is this.

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Arden Moore: We're joking, but sometimes humor is needed to get out good safety information, right?

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Absolutely.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And that's been my philosophy as it appears as though is your philosophy as well.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: It's really important to have something that people will remember.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: So while we're entertaining, we're also providing good information, which is the most important part.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: But we want it to be memorable.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And that's, that's the key.

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Arden Moore: And the reason we asked you on the show is because you're also an inventor.

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Arden Moore: So you're not only interested in the ticks, but you're also interested in how to remove ticks.

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Arden Moore: And so some people just say, yeah, we'll do something.

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Arden Moore: You did some.

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Arden Moore: Can you bring us back to what you invented, what it was called and what it is now called?

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Sure.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Sure.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: That's a good question.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And it's an interesting story.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: At some point in my past, I was a divorced single dad of two boys and two dogs.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Okay.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: That would be Charlie and Champ.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And I became an avid outdoorsman.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: So I spent a lot of time in the woods in Eastern Massachusetts.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And as many people know, the Northeast and the upper Midwest are really hotspots and have been historically in the US for ticks and in particular reported cases of Lyme disease.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: So I really didn't think much about it when I was growing up in Maryland, you know, back in the 70s, never even encountered a tick.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And even when I was a young man, when we moved to the Boston area in 1977, when I was 13, and I'm telling you how old I am.

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Arden Moore: I've done the math.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: We never encountered them.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: But about 25 years ago, people started getting lime in our area.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: I started seeing more and more tics.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And it's only gotten much, much worse since then.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And there's a variety of reasons for that.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And I was concerned because my 10-year-old Matt came down one day, and I noticed that he had a tick stuck in his back.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And by the way, I've been personally bitten by deer ticks in excess of 250 times.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And that's just the species deer tick deer ticks.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Yes, I've never had any lone stars or dog tics on me that I am aware of.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And so, you know, for me, you know, hey, whatever, I pull it off, not knowing how to do it correctly.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: But then when my son got it on, got a tick on him, I was more concerned.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Of course, now it's him.

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Arden Moore: Yeah, it's Matt.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: I started looking online.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: I started doing research.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And I became obsessed and fascinated with ticks.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And from that point on, I just have never stopped looking at them and studying them.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And I've had an opportunity to remove, I'm guessing in excess of 3,000 live ticks from their hosts.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: With every method possible, because one thing I did discover that was very relevant and very in my face was that there's so many different people telling you different things about what to do when you find an attach.

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Arden Moore: It is.

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Arden Moore: You're swimming in a pool of misinformation and probably with the abundance of ticks.

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Arden Moore: So, you said all different.

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Arden Moore: We're going to get into some of that in a minute, but I want people to know you invented something.

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Arden Moore: What did you invent?

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: I did.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Well, first of all, I want to tell you, I'm no rocket scientist here.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: I just think simple is better.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: I agree.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: That's the philosophy that I found online regarding tick removal, and the most recommended method from the top organizations and experts that I found was simply using a fine tip tweezer to grasp the tick down at the skin surface, grasp it firmly, and lift straight up.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: I was thinking to myself, this is great, I'm going to go buy tick tweezers online.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: But what I found was there were no tick tweezers, or specifically for removing ticks, and the fine tip tweezers that I found could range in price from $10 to $100, depending on what type of tweezer you got.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: But I also did find value in what they call a scoop method, which seems ideal for removing larger and gorge tics, mainly from animals because typically we find them after they're in gorge, because their tics are harder to find on fur covered creatures.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: So I did note that that was a good method as well, given the right circumstances, and by circumstances, I mean, the right size tick in the right area on the dog or cat or pet or animals body, because you can't really scoop out a tiny nymphal stage deer tick with a scoop when it's lodged right in the crevice of the dog's ear or in the crotch or that area.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: So I thought that this was a good thing to do.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: So I just started sketching some designs, and what I found was that if you took a sharp tweezer, you can see that, and for all the non-video users here, it is a tweezer with a 45-degree angle and it's very sharp at the end.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: So that would be the perfect tool to use, and I've had to use these on nymphal stage ticks, which are incredibly small.

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Arden Moore: Oh, yeah.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: They have fed on occasion in my belly button, on the inner wall of my belly button.

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Arden Moore: Wait a minute.

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Arden Moore: What is your motto?

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: My motto is do your daily tick checks and don't neglect your crevices.

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Arden Moore: That means belly buttons.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Yes, belly buttons, crevices, growing area behind the ears, in the ears and other tight places.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: So when you have an angled pointy tweezer like this, it's just perfect for being able to go in there.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: It's not so easy if it's a straight tip tweezer.

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Arden Moore: I like that.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: If that's all you have, then by all means use it because the trick is to get the tick out as soon as possible.

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Arden Moore: Isn't it about like 24 hours or less is the best?

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: I don't believe that at all.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: I think one second is too long that a tick is attached because there's a lot going on.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: I mean, if we had more time, I could get into all of this stuff.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: I know.

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Arden Moore: I wish we did.

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Arden Moore: So what is this called?

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Arden Moore: How do people get their paws on it?

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Well, let me tell you about the backside.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Here's the scoop side and this side is also angled, and it's perfect for sliding under the tick and simply lifting up.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: So if you have a squirmy dog or a cat that doesn't really want you messing around with them too much like my dog Henry, you're able to kind of surprise them and just go in real quick, slide it in and pop it up.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: But again, only if it's in the right place and it's the right size of tick.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: So I originally invented this product and it was called Tickies, the only two-sided tweezer available.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: I was fortunate enough to come in contact with a company called Bug Bite Thing, after I saw them get a deal with Laurie Grenier on Shark Tank.

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Arden Moore: Oh, I like her, yeah.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And I reached out to them because they had a suction tool that's designed to relieve the pain and itching of insect bites and bee stings and so forth, particularly mosquitoes.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: So one thing led to another and lo and behold, they bought my company last summer and they are now rebranding the Tickies product to what's called the Bug Bite Thing tick remover and we're just starting to get that out in the mass markets and other platforms for sales.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: So I'm doing a lot of content here.

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Arden Moore: Everyone, we're speaking with Dan Wolff.

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Arden Moore: He's better known as Tick Man Dan and we're going to dig in to Tick Trivia, the new definition of Tick Tock.

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Arden Moore: We already found it on his watch and more after we take this break.

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Arden Moore: So keep your pets away from ticks.

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Arden Moore: We'll be right back.

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Announcer: Time for a walk on the red carpet.

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Arden Moore: Pause up, Pet Pals.

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Arden Moore: Arden Moore here, your host of the Oh Behave show.

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Arden Moore: Welcome back to the Oh Behave Show on Pet Life Radio.

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Arden Moore: I have been looking forward to this guest all week.

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Arden Moore: He is Dan Wolff, better known as Pick Man Dan.

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Arden Moore: I was going on the sites.

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Arden Moore: You work with some Brainiacs and I think it's Rhode Island University.

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Arden Moore: Is that the one you're working with or which one are you working with?

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Yes.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: One of the universities I work with is University of Rhode Island.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: their tickencounter.org site and program is, in my opinion, one of the best, if not the best, for content and information and prevention and awareness.

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Arden Moore: And your own father, the bug to know science and to help, it's genetic, right?

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Well, probably not quite as genetic as I'd like.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Unfortunately, he passed away in the mid 90s, but before he died, he was the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: So he was a big guy in research on infectious disease and public health, and certainly being in that same realm of infectious disease, because Lyme disease right now is the fastest growing vector borne illness in the country.

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Arden Moore: And isn't it named after someplace in Connecticut?

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: That's correct.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: It's named after Lyme, Connecticut, where another contact friend of my father's was at Yale.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And we were they were noticing that there was a concentration of pediatric arthritis cases, a cluster of them, so to speak, in the I think it was the mid 70s.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And so it brought that to the attention of the public health people.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And the gentleman from Yale, Dr.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Sam Thier, had dispatched one of his guys, Alan Stier, out to discover and figure out what was going on.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And as a result, they found the Borrelia bacteria.

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Arden Moore: Wow.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And then it was deemed Lyme disease.

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Arden Moore: All right.

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Arden Moore: I've been waiting for this all week.

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Arden Moore: Time to play a little game, Tick Trivia.

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Arden Moore: You ready, Mr.

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Arden Moore: Tick Mandu?

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: I'm ready.

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Arden Moore: Mr.

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Arden Moore: Tick Mandan.

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Arden Moore: Okay.

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Arden Moore: All right.

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Arden Moore: True or false?

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Arden Moore: Ticks?

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Arden Moore: Jump.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Fall.

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Arden Moore: All right.

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Arden Moore: How do they get on our bodies and on the bodies of our pets?

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Yes.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Ticks are physically incapable of jumping, flying or transporting themselves onto you magically.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Ticks have two methods of getting on you depending on the type of tick.

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Arden Moore: Okay.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: All ticks are equipped with sensory organs that detect the host in some way or another.

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Arden Moore: Oh, like a Spidey sense, like Spider-Man, right?

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Yeah.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: More like a mosquito, they can sense carbon dioxide and heat and movement, vibrations, that kind of thing.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Wow.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: But not all ticks, all tick species have a very developed sensory system.

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Arden Moore: Okay.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: For example, the Lone Star tick, which is an aggressive, fast-moving, what we call hunter, will seek you out and destroy you.

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Arden Moore: He's like the wasp versus a bee.

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Arden Moore: Wasp are nasty.

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Arden Moore: They keep hitting you.

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Arden Moore: All right.

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Arden Moore: Okay.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: You can say that.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: So these Lone Star ticks who are not known for commonly carrying Lyme disease more for something called Alpha Gal Syndrome, which is horrible because it gives you a red meat allergy pretty much for life.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: For some people, that's a big one because I do enjoy my red meat.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: So they are called hunters.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: They are now exploding onto our scene here, so they're around.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: The deer ticks have a very dull sensory system, and so they do something called questing.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Questing is when they would perch themselves on the tip of a leaf or a tall grass, and they would basically wait for something to brush by, and they have little hooks.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: I don't know if you can see on the shirt.

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Arden Moore: Yeah, I can.

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Arden Moore: Yeah.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Little hooks on the very ends of their front legs that act like Velcro.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: They can notice something coming, but they can only sit there and start to wave their arms around, and if anything comes by, they're stuck to them, and then they will begin to crawl up and search and get into your skin through your clothes or through under your clothes, and they will find a nice moist place.

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Arden Moore: Okay.

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Arden Moore: Well, let's keep going because I got some other things.

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Arden Moore: I wish I could talk to you for hours, but I want to get some more in.

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Arden Moore: You did a TikTok video where you took a sheet, a white sheet or a pillowcase, tell people quickly in Western Mass or Eastern Mass what you did.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Yeah, that's called flagging for ticks, and this is how people mainly collect ticks.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And basically I stapled a towel, a light-colored towel to a dowel.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: In this case, it was a garden hoe, the backside of a garden hoe.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And basically that video was at the end of February here in Massachusetts and the adult ticks were active.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: So I just was waving it and dragging it across the brush.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: It was actually a brushy area on the side of a dog walking trail on conservation land.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And it's funny because I did it on both sides and only the sunny side, where the sun hit it in the morning really had the tics on it.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: So they were all concentrated on that side of the trail.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And after only about 60 to 70 yards, I did pull off about 40 to 50 deer ticks.

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Arden Moore: Ouch.

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Arden Moore: Okay.

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Arden Moore: Another tick trivia when they're babies, I guess they're called nymphs, right?

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: They're egg larva nymph adult.

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Arden Moore: Okay.

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Arden Moore: So what does a tick nymph look like on a person's skin?

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Well, I'll show you even better.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: What do they look like in real life?

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Arden Moore: Okay.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And I don't know.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Well, for those people who don't have video, wicked small.

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Arden Moore: Wicked small.

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Arden Moore: That sounds very Boston like, oh my gosh.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: I don't know if you can see.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Yeah.

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Arden Moore: Somebody said they look like a little seed or something, right?

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: They're about the size of a poppy seed.

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Arden Moore: Oh, so you think you just got a seed, but you know, you got a teenage tick.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Well, that's the problem.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Even though, so a tick has to get the germs from the things they feed on.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: So the older a tick is, the more times it's had a chance to feed, the more of a chance it contains infectious germs.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: So the nymphs being young are much less of a percentage wise of carrying disease, but more people get sick from them because they're so small and they're very hard to detect.

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Arden Moore: So we're out on the woods.

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Arden Moore: Is there any kind of clothing that will help you be more tick repellent or what do you do?

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: As far as clothing is concerned, my biggest recommendation and some people prefer to stay away from the chemical products, but I am convinced that this product is the best.

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Arden Moore: Okay.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Or it's called permethrin, part of the pyrethroid family, which was used back in the day for kids who had lice.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: It was in their shampoos.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: The same family of chemicals.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: But nowadays, you can get permethrin to a company called Insect Shield, and you apply it to your clothing only.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: It's not for your skin, and when it dries, it becomes non-water soluble.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: It will kill the ticks and not just repel them, which is really important.

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Arden Moore: All right.

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Arden Moore: I've heard the expression that ticks are sometimes called germ-filled balloons.

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Arden Moore: What does that mean?

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Well, essentially, in the simplest terms, they're a squishy sack with a hollow tube that's sharp and barbed.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And so if you think of it that way, they are more like a cesspool of a sack of germs.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And so when they're feeding, they expand like a water balloon, filling up with your blood and spitting and sucking and spitting.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: So it's pretty gross.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: But that's how they can transfer or vector these harmful pathogens from themselves into your body.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: So you don't want to squeeze that body while it's attached.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: You don't want to tear it open.

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Arden Moore: It's like zigzag.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: You don't want to pop it, tear it open or agitated or put heat or oil or anything else on it while it's attached to you.

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Arden Moore: So getting it removed like with a tick tool like you have is a smart thing to do.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Yeah, because if you use your fingers, some people like, oh, I just use my fingers.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: I mean, listen, do whatever you want.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: I'm here to tell you that it's not a good idea because your fingers are fat compared to a tick, and you may possibly squeeze it or even tear it.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Then now you have what I call yucky tick juice on your fingers near that bite site.

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Arden Moore: You rub your eyes.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: You rub your eye, scratch your nose, any of that stuff and it could potentially expose you to those risks.

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Arden Moore: A wives tale, true or false.

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Arden Moore: Let's just drown the tick in petroleum jelly.

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Arden Moore: That'll work, does it?

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Yeah, it might work, but you're just agitating and poisoning and killing that tick while it's attached to you, which can't be good.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: What you want to do is pull that tick out, surprise it, pull it out.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: If the tick is wandering around and walking and is okay, you've done it right.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: But you don't want to find pieces of that tick or tear it.

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Arden Moore: How do you dispose of a removed tick safely?

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Well, if it was removed from a human, I strongly suggest that you don't dispose of it.

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Arden Moore: Okay.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Save the tick.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: If you have a dog that's been getting tons and tons of ticks, it may not be so necessary to save the tick because I'm talking about sending it in for testing.

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Arden Moore: Okay.

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Arden Moore: To make sure you don't have a tick-borne disease.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Well, just to make sure you know what's in that tick that bit you doesn't necessarily mean that whatever was in that tick is going to infect you, but it helps you and your physician make a decision on treating yourself if in fact you start to feel symptoms because the onset of symptoms of most tick-borne illnesses are very similar to each other and they will be fever, headache, fatigue, joint pain.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Any of those symptoms can be a result of tick-borne illness.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: So what's nice to know is, was since ticks can carry bacterium, viruses, and parasites.

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Arden Moore: Oh, wonderful.

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Arden Moore: Trifecta.

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Arden Moore: Right.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And you can get them from one bite.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: You can get all three.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: It's rare, but they're called co-infections.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And a bacteria is treated with antibiotics.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: viruses are not treated pretty much with anything just to make you feel better until it runs its course.

00:27:13.300 --> 00:27:20.180
Tick Man Dan Wolff: But parasites are treated with other medications, not antibiotics, and more like malarial drugs.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: So if you pull off a tick, you save it, you start to feel sick, you send it in, and it says negative for Lyme, but positive for Babesia.

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Arden Moore: I like that.

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Arden Moore: Where do you send it?

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: I work with another university, University of Massachusetts here.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: They've actually, the tick lab that I sent to moved out of that umbrella, but is still located in the same town.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: It's called tickreport.com.

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Arden Moore: tickreport.com, good.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: They'll send you an answer within 72 hours of receiving that tick, and the PCR testing is highly accurate.

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Arden Moore: I can just imagine you on an airplane, in an elevator, at a social gathering, and people are saying, so Dan, what do you do for a living?

00:28:05.360 --> 00:28:09.260
Arden Moore: I'm glad you don't say I sell insurance, because you probably nobody will talk to you.

00:28:09.260 --> 00:28:11.220
Arden Moore: You must have to fend off people.

00:28:11.320 --> 00:28:14.080
Arden Moore: You must be like a rock star when they know what to do.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: When I was single, I have this phone.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: On the back of my phone is a ticket says, please ask me about tics.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: And what I do is I belly up to the bar, leave it on the bar in a very visible spot.

00:28:26.900 --> 00:28:28.500
Tick Man Dan Wolff: And you could see people looking at it.

00:28:28.500 --> 00:28:31.620
Tick Man Dan Wolff: And sometimes they would just kind of look and make a face.

00:28:31.620 --> 00:28:34.520
Tick Man Dan Wolff: And then eventually, I know maybe they have had a couple of drinks.

00:28:34.520 --> 00:28:37.180
Tick Man Dan Wolff: They're like, all right, what is this?

00:28:37.180 --> 00:28:38.520
Tick Man Dan Wolff: Ask me about tics.

00:28:38.520 --> 00:28:40.640
Tick Man Dan Wolff: And then we start up a conversation.

00:28:40.860 --> 00:28:42.280
Arden Moore: So how do people follow you?

00:28:42.280 --> 00:28:44.940
Arden Moore: I can't I can talk to you all day, but we got to wrap things up.

00:28:44.940 --> 00:28:46.580
Arden Moore: How do people follow you?

00:28:46.580 --> 00:28:49.760
Arden Moore: Dan Wolff, Tic Man Dan at Tic Man Dan.

00:28:49.760 --> 00:28:55.060
Tick Man Dan Wolff: I'm on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Tic Toc and YouTube.

00:28:55.060 --> 00:29:02.400
Tick Man Dan Wolff: So I'm just building that up now because once I had sold the company, the previous company, I really had to start from scratch.

00:29:02.400 --> 00:29:04.620
Tick Man Dan Wolff: So I am a content machine right now.

00:29:04.620 --> 00:29:07.760
Tick Man Dan Wolff: So if you want information, it's best to go.

00:29:07.920 --> 00:29:13.220
Tick Man Dan Wolff: And please, everybody, your best support could be through liking, following, subscribing.

00:29:13.220 --> 00:29:13.940
Arden Moore: Exactly.

00:29:13.940 --> 00:29:14.700
Tick Man Dan Wolff: Anything like that.

00:29:14.700 --> 00:29:16.500
Arden Moore: Well, I'm going to do that for you.

00:29:16.500 --> 00:29:18.980
Arden Moore: I hope you'll follow my YouTube channel, Arden Moore.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: I already did.

00:29:19.820 --> 00:29:20.060
Arden Moore: Okay.

00:29:20.060 --> 00:29:22.380
Arden Moore: We're already Facebook buds, I think, right?

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Yep.

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Arden Moore: Okay.

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Arden Moore: I just feel like I met a brother from a different mother and I love that you are helping and using humor.

00:29:29.560 --> 00:29:30.960
Arden Moore: So I'm serious, man.

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Arden Moore: You've been one of my most favorite guests I've had in a Tic Tic Tic long time.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Well, thank you so much.

00:29:37.420 --> 00:29:39.100
Arden Moore: You ticked me off in a good way.

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Arden Moore: What else can we say?

00:29:39.900 --> 00:29:41.460
Arden Moore: Come on, throw some puns at me.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Tickled pink and it's been a fantastic interview.

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Arden Moore: Oh my God.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Oh, let me tell you, if people want to contact me before I start charging, I have a tick line.

00:29:53.840 --> 00:29:55.480
Tick Man Dan Wolff: It's 855-BAD-TICK.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: I will look into that call and I help people take the steps necessary to reduce their exposure any way I can.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: I've been getting these calls for years now.

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Arden Moore: Well, I am so honored to have you on the show.

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Arden Moore: Everyone, please check out Tick Man Dan.

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Arden Moore: I also wanted this time to salute my producer, Mark Winter.

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Arden Moore: He is the executive producer of Pet Life Radio.

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Arden Moore: All the shows and everybody check out Arden Moore, fourleggedlife.com, my YouTube channel and you know what?

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Arden Moore: He and I, Dan, Tick Man Dan, we both want to keep our pets safe.

00:30:34.840 --> 00:30:37.740
Arden Moore: So check out my Pet first Aid for you.

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Arden Moore: I'm a master instructor.

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Arden Moore: I'm all about keeping pets safe and I just found an ally in Tick Man Dan.

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Arden Moore: So until next time, this is your Tick Free host, Arden Moore.

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Arden Moore: I did check my crevices.

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Arden Moore: Good.

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Arden Moore: This is your Tick Free host, Arden Moore, saying just two words to all you two, three and four legged out there.

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Arden Moore: Oh Behave.

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Tick Man Dan Wolff: Tick care, everybody.

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