I hate those little monsters. About a month back I pulled a fully engorged tick off of my dog. I put the thing into a medicine vial. Since then I pulled 2 more ticks off of another dog and threw them in the vial too. It looked like the first tick died, the thing never moved. The other two, although I crunched one pretty good, are crawling all over that vial. The one I thought was dead I thought I saw move its legs the other day, not sure. This thing turned into a science project of sorts. Yesterday, I noticed "stuff" all over the inside of the vial, like part of one of the beasties exploded. Last night I looked closer and these tiny dots all over the vial AND THEY ARE MOVING. I think the "dead" tick had about a zillion babies! Experiment over. As soon as I find my tick spray I'm dropping that vial in a plastic bag, spraying the crap out of it, then opening it up and spray some more.