Does anyone know how to remove ticks from dogs?
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Burn them all!!
vaccuum cleaner! n a real high powered 1!
1. Using a pair of pointed precision tweezers, grasp the tick by the head or mouth parts where it enters the skin. DO NOT grasp the tick by the body.
Etched or rasped fine-point tweezers may not be effective in removing deer ticks. Choose unrasped fine-point tweezers whose tips align tightly when pressed firmly together.
2. With a slow, smooth motion, pull firmly and steadily outward. DO NOT twist the tick. DO NOT apply petroleum jelly, a hot match, alcohol or any other irritant to the tick. This can cause the tick to burrow more deeply, and expel more bacteria into the blood.
3. Place the tick in a jar of alcohol to kill it.
4. Clean the wound with disinfectant. Monitor the bite for a rash for three to 30 days. Be alert for other symptoms of Lyme disease. If a rash or other early symptoms develop, see a physician immediately.
Tweezers
wash the damn dog.
grab the tick's body with your fingers and yank it out. make sure you get the head of the tick because it can grow a new body. if you don't feel comfortable doing that, but a little lighter fluid on the tick, it won't be able to breathe and it will back out on its own. just make sure no one lights a cigarette near the dog.
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To remove an attached tick, use a pair of fine-tipped tweezers or special tick removal instruments. These special devices allow one to remove the tick without squeezing the tick body. This is important, as you do not want to crush the tick and force harmful bacteria to leave the tick and enter the pet's bloodstream.
Grab the tick by the head or mouth parts right where they enter the skin. Do not grasp the tick by the body.
Without jerking, pull firmly and steadily directly outward. Do not twist the tick as you are pulling.
Using methods such as applying petroleum jelly, a hot match, or alcohol will NOT cause the tick to 'back out.' In fact, these irritants may cause the tick to deposit more disease-carrying saliva in the wound.
After removing the tick, place it in a jar of alcohol to kill it. Ticks are NOT killed by flushing them down the toilet.
Clean the bite wound with a disinfectant. If you want to, apply a small amount of a triple antibiotic ointment.
Wash your hands thoroughly.
Please do not use your fingers to remove or dispose of the tick. We do not want you in contact with a potentially disease-carrying tick. Do NOT squash the tick with your fingers. The contents of the tick can transmit disease.
Once an embedded tick is manually removed, it is not uncommon for a welt and skin reaction to occur. A little hydrocortisone spray will help alleviate the irritation, but it may take a week or more for healing to take place. In some cases, the tick bite may permanently scar leaving a hairless area. This skin irritation is due to the irritating and destructive tick saliva. It is not due to the tick losing its head, literally. Do not be worried about the tick head staying in; it rarely happens. The swelling is due to toxic saliva, not toxic heads.
Kill the dog
flea dip. with a dog that small, be very careful to follow the directions and get a good one from your vet.
Ticks seem to be the product of one of Nature's foul moods. A real little nasty critter, it hides out in grass and catches the unsuspecting passerby. Crawling up to bare skin, or digging for it, if you're a dog, the tick will bury it's head under the skin layer and proceed to drink all the blood it can get.
If you live in Tick-country, a daily check during the summer season is essential. Rub your hands all over your dog's body, and your fingers through his fur, applying pressure, enough that you can feel any abnormalities in the skin. If you feel a small lump, pull the fur apart to investigate it further. An embedded tick will look like a small black or brown pimple, sometimes flat-ish, depending on location, and sometimes legs are visible.
How to Remove a Tick
You've located the little vampire and now you need to get him out of your dog. There's a couple of ways of doing this, depending on what you have on hand, any of these methods should work well.
Important Note: If you live in an area where ticks are a common hazard, check with your veterinarian and find out if the Lyme Disease vaccine is available.
Some species of ticks carry Lyme Disease, and you may need to take the removed tick in to have it identified by a veterinarian.
Tweezing it Out
Pull the surrounding hairs away from the ticks body. Take the tweezers and grasp the tick as close to the buried head as you can possibly get. Do NOT squeeze, but pull gently up and away from the dog, slowly to be sure not to break off the head of the tick. Toss tick in toilet and flush. Wash your hands and your dog's skin with anti-bacterial soap.
If you suspect you may have left a piece of tick still embedded under your pet's skin, please seek veterinary care immediately. The resulting infections could be horrible, and ticks carry a plethora of nasty diseases.
Note: Burning the tick out is NOT recommended. You are more likely to burn yourself and your dog than to remove the tick.
You have to beable to pull the head out,and this is hard and you don't want to leave the head inbedded in your dogs skin.I would take your pet to the vet and let him take the tick out.Thats the safe way to get the job done.
Clowmy
give them a good tick wash!
a good shampoo might do da wonder!
the best tip, would be to go to ur local chemist or pet shop and get them to help u!
Do not just take them out, cause part of the tick will remain in the dog. There are special pliers which you have to turn around and they will remove the ENTIRE tick. Get them from a drug store and read the manual.
Sadly one of the most effective ways is a flame thrower.
There are other methods of course, like, seeing a Vet. they are far more knowledgeable about such things than people from the web.
Go to a pet shop they are good at advice too.
Good luck
Bleach...
That's a joke by the way, don't actually do it. I don't want to be sued if you kill your dog!!
DON'T grab the ticks, it's dangerous (they could carry infectious disease!). The best way to remove them is:
grab the ticks with tweezers, don't pull on the tick, but TURN it out.
There is a special device to make this saefty: go to:
http://www.otom.com/
Our dogs get Ticks all the time and I use a little plastic Tick remover. It has two prongs that you put around the tick twist it gently a couple of rotations and usually the thing comes out head and all.
Very simple to use, the hardest thing is to get the dog to stand still. I bought mine from our local vet - suggest you try there first or a major pet store.
It's worth perservering tho - both my woofers have had tick fever and its not nice.
Good luck
Try pulling it out with pliers and if that doesn't work completely cover the tick with petroleum jelly. The tick starts to sufficate and will drop off. To kill a tick (not on a animal or person ) hold a lighter to it and it will pop.
JUST PICK EM OFF GRAB THEM AS FAR DOWN TOWARD WHERE THE TIC IS ATTACHED TO THE DOG AND GENTLY PLUCK BUT IF YOU WANT THE TICKS TO STAY OFF TAKE A YEAST PILL 1/2FOR SMALLER DOGS IN WITH HE FOOD EVERY DAY FOR ABOUT 1 MO. THEN EVERY OTHER DAY UNTILL YOUR DOWN TO 3 TIMES WEEKLY KEEP THAT REGEMENT TO SUBSTAIN THEM FROM YOUR DOG .
carefully twist the tick counter clock wise it will twist out.
then get frontline plus flea and tick med it will kill them without twisting them out
well,if it's just 1 or 2 at a time,I always try to go the less traumatic way for my dog,I use rubbing alcohol.Just pour a few drops right on the tick or right where it's head is and 9 outta 10 times the critter will back out on it's own.If not then I'd try this special shampoo you can buy,although kinda costly,I'm not sure the name but your vet should know;anyway,you use this shampoo several times,and each time as you rinse off your dog,you'll be able to see as the critters simply just fall dead off your pet.it's kinda neat actually/.Good luck
use products which stay on ur dog for long to protect it from ticks like a anti tick collar,shampoo,powder.
gud luck
go to the vets and they mite give you a stronger treatment. or maybe you should walk your dog in a different less grassy area
take it to the vet to get done professionally.
You need a O tom hook you can get from your vets its small and plastic with a groove which you place over the tick and twist and that will get it out safetly. you can also pick up a pack of Advantix while you are at the vets. Ticks wont come anywhere near your dog. Hope this helps.. you really get some silly answers on here dont you? hope this one helps you
a big blob of vaselene [petroleum jelly] on the area where the tick is.It will suffocate the tick and it will eventually die and drop off!
you can buy a device from your vet that can remove them, when did u last put frontline on, u need to do it once every month r u doing this?
Use O'Tom - see www.otom.com. My dogs are always getting ticks and this little tool removes them quickly, easily, effectively and painlessly. Good luck.
Cover the tick in vasoline. The tick cant breath so it dies and drops off
When i was younger, my uncle who was a gamekeeper, had a lovely red setter that went to work with him.
The dog constantly got ticks (mainly deer ticks!) and to get them off we would soak them in vinegar and often they would let go as such!
Otherwise, he would have one of us making a fuss of her while he would smoke his cigarette down a little bit-then burn the tick with the rest of the cigarette!
You have to make sure you have the legs out of your dogs ear (or any other place the tick is!) otherwise it grows back again!
Ticks dont particulary hurt or annoy the animal they are on, most of the time they arent even noticed by the dog etc..they just look yuk!
If you leave them until they are full up with blood they just drop off anyway-but keep your shoes on, cant think of anything worse than squashing one in barefoot once it falls off your dog!
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