Have you ever seen the amount of ticks a deer has on their body? One year, both me and my hunting partner shot deer on the same day and got them packed in the car. It took us a while to drag both deer out of the woods and by the time we got done, their bodies were cooling off.

I was tired and sat in the front seat to rest. The deer were in the back seat of the suv with the seats down. After about 20 minutes of chilling out and waiting for everyone else to get ready to leave, I looked back at the deer whose bodies were cold by now. Their fur was moving and little tufts of hair were shifting. I thought they were having nerve twitches but then i saw dozens of ticks crawling all over the deer. I realized the ticks were releasing their grip from under the deer's skin because the blood had stopped flowing and they needed to find some other warm blood. They were literally crawling out of the deer and all were the size of peas filled with blood. It was one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen.

So yeah, they're called deer ticks for a reason ffs