Have a 6 month old puppy, and she picked up a couple of ticks while we were out on our walk today, and want to remove them with out causing her any pain if possible (or as little as possible)
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cut her fur back, then pluck them off, then you should go to your vet and buy a product called Frontline.its about $60 for 6 months worth of medication. Its the best stuff out there..we use it on our pets and we haven't seen fleas or ticks.
go to the nearest pet shop and ask them
You need to make sure to get the head out of the dog when you do this. First get the dog. Light a match and then blow it out. Poke the tick with it and the heat from the once lit match should make the ticks head come out of the dogs. Then either get tweezers or a credit card and flick it off the dog and then quickly kill the bug. Hope this helps! It should not hurt the dog at all!
if you can put nail polish on the ticks head then take twezers after it make sure you get the whole thing or it may become infected.. DONT PUT A MATCH ON IT!!
Go to the pet store. They have those little tube things with the liquid inside of them that you apply on his/her back for fleas but they also remove ticks. Just make sure you keep her isolated for a while because sometimes they dont die and ticks dont care if you are a dog or a human...they will make thier home anywhere.
PS please dont use a match, that's old school...dogs dont sit still for a very long time so you dont want to risk causing him injury.
Tweezers is a good way of removing ticks but make sure to get as far down as you can get it and remove everything make sure that the head is not still stuck because your puppy can get lime disease or any other diseases that ticks in your area may be carrying. Another thing that helps is a little bit of cooking oil it can suffocate the tick and you can pull it out with tweezers not to mention making it easier to pull the tick out. After you have pulled the tick out make sure to pop it in half because just smashing it in a piece of toilet paper or paper towel won't kill it then flush it down the toilet if you don't pinch it and throw it in the trash you could have that same tick back on your dog or even on you.
put a lot of vaseline around the tick so that it suffocates and then it will pop off. Or you could burn it off, but that wouldn't be such a good choice with the hair.
Never pluck them out with tweezers, I have three hunting dogs and I learned that the hard way. If you pluck them with tweezers their fangs will be stuck underneath your puppys' skin leading to a bad infection. What I have learned to be the best way (also recommended from my vet) is that you pull back all their hair away from the tick then light a match, blow it out, then right away stick it on the tick (as close to the ticks head as possible without burning your dog) and it will kill the tick leaving it to undo its fangs from your dogs skin and it will go away.
Dip a Q-tip in alcohol and rub it on the tick. It will usually make them fall off. Good luck!
Do not burn it. Do not suffocate it. Do not twist when you pull.
Those methods have all now been proven to be more harmful than good now. When it is suffocated or burned it vomits toxins into the blood stream. When it is twisted it signifcantly raises the chance of not getting the head.
Trim the hair. Grab as close to the skin as possible. Pull out the tick. Make sure youve got the head. If you didnt get the tick head, or if youre even remotely uncomfortable then go to a vet.
WELL IF HE GOT LOTS OF HAIR I WOULD GIVE HIM A GOOD SHAVE AN MAYBE THE CLIPPERS WILL GET ALL THE TICKS OFF..SUMMER COMEN UP HE PROLLY DOESNT WANT ALLTHE HAIR ANYWAYS
tics and leaches have to be burned off, or the vet should have medicine regardless take the pet to the vet! your better off handling that fast before you or a family members of your family end up with a tic in there ear, which can make you very sick.
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