how?? do the clans harvest mouse bile?? does mouse bile actually work against fleas??
IT. DOES. NOT.
It's actually a harmful adaptation of a bad home "remedy" for removing ticks. It's the "Nail Polish Remover Trick" you might be familiar with, where you're told to dab ticks with something acrid to make them drop off.
PLEASE do not do this. I have family who caught the red meat allergen AND lyme disease from lone star ticks. This method is more likely to infect you as the stressed-out arachnid vomits blood back into you. Please please please do not do this.
The best way to remove a tick is by getting tweezers and pulling it up by the HEAD. Pulling the body is likely to leave its gross mouth in you. If you have no tweezers, get as far down with your nails as you can. Pull the head out.
But no, you wouldn't even be able to collect that much mouse bile, and mouse bile isn't even as unpleasant to ticks as nail polish remover is. It's completely bogus from top to bottom.
(This is a really common misconception, btw. The nail polish remover thing.)
