tick remover / tick twister

Medical disclaimer - Use this tick removal tool on your own responsibility - it is provided "as is" with no acceptable claims.

Removing ticks is a challenging thing...
If you use tweezers/pincers chances are that you tear the the tick leaving a part of it in your/your pet's body or wreaking havoc while extracting it.

If you follow all medical advice you should never use oil/glue or any substance suffocating the tick since the dying animal may again spill some of its gastric contents in the bite resulting in a fair chance of infection.

The most elegant yet efficient way to get rid of a tick is using a split hook and grabbing the fiend between the skin and its head with a shoving movement.
A gentle twist of the hook will ensure just enough torque to release the tick from the skin - normally leaving the animal intact and alive - you may enjoy your own ritual of getting rid of it.

Here you see the momentary iteration of my design for a tickhook/ticktwister.
I designed it in TinkerCAD from scratch to meet all my demands.

• it should be pocket format
• the endings should therefore be rounded and
• the opening/slit should fit juvenile and adult ticks

The design presented here should be considered work in progress. Every time I come along with an improvement I'll update it.

First upload: May 3rd 2018 - V 0.43 (anything below was pre-prototyping)