He used my tweezers to de-tic the dog!!

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Tonight I watched enraptured as my DH took my tweezers from the bathroom cabinet, removed a tic from the dog ("ooh I got its head as well"...), faffed about with savlon, rinsed them under the cold tap then put them back in the cupboard.

He claims he savlonned the tweezers and this acts as a powerful steriliser but I don't agree and anyway I don't think he did, I think the savlon only went on the dog.

He thinks I'm overreacting but it's gross, right?

You're over reacting! They are made of metal, easy to clean.

Yucks! Yanbu!

No way! Wrong on so many levels! I think a trip to boots is in order! YANBU

Yes but are they self cleaning?

My point is that he wasn't going to clean them and just put them back! How many times has this happened? I pluck my nether regions with those tweezers!

I think he should have washed them with soap, but I wouldn't be that bothered.

How good are the tweezers?

If they are crap then designate them 'dog tweezers' and then buy some nicer ones and hide them.

He was being very unreasonable using your tweezers on the dog but at least he cleaned it with savlon afterwards. I don't think it will catch anything but you could phone the vet if you are worried.

If you are going to the vet take the tweezers with you. They may want to send them for analysis - poor dog!

It's not like you can catch a tic...! I'm sure anything that survived the savlon will come off with bit of soap and hot water??!

This made me laugh!

Dh used my GHD shampoo on the dog once and innocently declared the 'the dog likes that too' when showing my mum my head massaging thing.

That is horrible. Ticks carry Lyme Disease.

Also, tweezers aren't the best for getting ticks off as you can leave parts of it in and cause an infection. Send him to the vets or pet shop and you can get an nifty little plastic thing that does the job perfectly (and is very satisfying!).

I used my own tweezers for removing the dogs tics! I wipe them with an antibacterial spray afterwards.

As an aside, I had a bit of an episode with a tic yesterday, having removed it I squished it between some kitchen roll....when I unfolded the kitchen roll I expected to see a bloody splodge but it's mouth piece was still wriggling, so I put the whole lot in the sink and incinerated it (except the flame kept going out). Eventually put the smouldering tissue and death defying tic down the loo

Boil the tweezers. And then buy one of those amazing twirly tick removers for next time. V depressed to hear tick season is back btw, I hate them even more than horseflys.

You can't contract lymes disease by using tweezers previously used for tic removal!

Just put them in some boiling water for a few minutes. I can't see the problem.

If you don't want him to do that again, keep a special, secret pair for your lady-bits.

Eurgh! That's disgusting!!! YADNBU

I would have to buy new tweezers. Yuk!

Hmc - lol!!

I've designated the tweezers as dog tweezers until the whizzy plastic tic remover is found

He's had 3 lots of anti tic treatment in recent times, he seems very susceptible this year

It's still gross that I've been using them in complete blissful ignorance of their other purpose

alternatively, a thick blob of vaseline on said tic will suffocate it and force it to drop off. Very useful for cats who tend to be less compliant when resolving such issues. HTH

just put them in the dishwasher...

I couldn't fit our dog in the dishwasher...

I happily use my own tweezers to de-tic the dog, though I do pour boiling water over them afterwards. You won't catch anything from the tick. The tweezers will have bacteria from the dog's skin, but a lot less than your hand after you have stroked the dog (bacteria don't like metal much). Do you wash your hands every single time you touch the dog?

Delilah - thanks will try that (or rather, get DH to). I imagine he'll have a brilliant time with that!

My DH once used half a bottle of gin to get rid of a tic on the dog. And it wasn't a cheap bottle either. Don't think the dog could quite understand what was going on.

Tweezers would have to go in bin - make him buy you an expensive pair of tweezermans then he won't do it again. Agree the plastic tic thing from the vets is the best thing.

I once caught DH pin boning a salmon with a pair of pliers from his toolbox.

Kind of wish he'd used my tweezers tbh

My DH used my brow tweezers on his feet and I thought that was bad enough!

Just give them a good scrub.

Reminds me of one of my work colleagues who needed some sort of scope for a bloke in theatre who needed a scope stuck up his penis. They had the bloke unconscious on the table and realised they'd lost the scope so went and borrowed one from ent dept. The scope got returned to ent, obviously it'll be sterilised, but I pity the next person who has it shoved up their nose!