What did I just find on my Lab X???

[LadySilvia]

She's just returned from a long weekend with DF and DWeimaraners and had a blast but I've just plucked this tiny monster off her coat. Can anyone identify it? Will she need fumigating/vet treatment? TIA - I'm going for a lie down after some very undignified flapping while I bagged the bugger!

[WhizzPopper]

Earwig!

[Ilovetea82]

That looks like an earwig

[Out2pasture]

earwig?

[LadySilvia]

Really? Never seen one before! Off to google. Do I need to treat her for them?

[YouveCatToBeKittenMe]

Looks like an earwig
Probably just dropped onto her
I don't think there is any need, or any product for earwig prevention on dogs

[villainousbroodmare]

That's an earwig. Not a dog parasite, just an ordinary little garden/ domestic insect that happened to be stuck to her.

[SkydivingFerret]

You've never seen an earwig??? They don't live on dogs btw it probably fell on her and hitched a ride

[Haggisfish]

How can you have never seen an earwig?!? faints

[LadySilvia]

Never ever Sky - I've obviously lived a sheltered life! They do look nasty though!

[LadySilvia]

Haha Haggis - I keep feeling itchy just thinking of it. I'm always in the garden too so I'm surprised I've never seen one either: s'weird!

[Haggisfish]

I used to collect them out of the roses as a game. Even though I was scared they would crawl insider ears and eat my brains!

[ShowOfHands]

What?!

I see earwigs every day. I'm so surprised you can not recognise one.

They're utterly harmless.

[MsAdorabelleDearheartVonLipwig]

Those pinchers can give you a nasty nip though.

[LadySilvia]

Maybe the birds round here find them a delicacy and snap them up quickly?

[CreepingDogFart]

Definitely an earwig 🤔

[IveAlreadyPaid]

Forkytail!