Zoe Brookes, brasher's Marketing Manager has read many articles about ticks on humans, how they can attach themselves to you and what to do if they do but never really believed it happens!

Zoe's black Labrador Benjie gets them all the time after long walks at the weekends. The removal trick has always been, cover the tick with washing up liquid and turn the tick anti-clockwise with a pair of tweezers. To date it has always removed them in one!

After a 10 mile walk in Northumberland the other weekend, on a nice sunny day across many sheep and cattle fields, Zoe finally had proof that ticks do attach themselves to humans when she spotted on her husbands leg a big, black tick!

Getting her priorities right, Zoe grabs the camera for photographic evidence (see photo below) then applies the same removal tactics as she does to Benjie. Covering it with washing up liquid she turned it anti-clockwise with a pair of tweezers and out came the tick in one, alive and kicking!

Maybe you should believe everything you read!!