r/MadeMeSmile May 20 '26

ANIMALS Forever grateful

By @abbyandersonmusic

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u/Big-Active3139 May 20 '26

Ticks for everyone!

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u/Low_Bandicoot6844 May 20 '26

Deer ticks transmit Lyme disease.

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u/Suspicious_Glow May 20 '26

Deer can also carry the Lone Star Tick which can make people allergic to red meat.

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u/GordieLaChance May 20 '26

Also the Garden State Tick which can make people over-mousse their hair, get extreme tans and hang out down by the shore.

(Sorry my jokes are 15 years out of date--probably due to an undiagnosed tick bite).

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u/Big-Active3139 May 21 '26

Jersey shore is still on the air, so you good fam

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u/TheRealtcSpears May 20 '26

And like the Lone Star Tick, make you allergic to anything other than Pork Roll

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u/Googulator May 24 '26

You could say it's a verbal tick of yours.

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u/OpheliaDearest May 21 '26

He was born in our sandbags and abandoned by his mother not long after, maybe because he was tiny and blind in one eye.

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u/elwebst May 20 '26

And hang out with Snookie

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u/nWhm99 May 20 '26

It's a hilarious irony that texas tick makes people allergic to red meat.

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u/elwebst May 20 '26

Guess I'll just starve to death then

  • Texans

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u/Deaffin May 20 '26

That's where most of the cows were getting butchered, so it makes sense to introduce the patch there first.

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u/YBHunted May 21 '26

Very low chance, but yeah... I had one on my arm last year when I was cutting grass. Hadnt bit me yet was still crawling around. I stripped down almost naked in my yard rubbing myself down like a lunatic.

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u/PrestigiousZucchini9 May 21 '26

I stripped down almost naked in my yard rubbing myself down like a lunatic.

I do that thanks to a different type of tick.

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u/Rentington May 20 '26

Damn so they can't even eat it after raising it?