How to get rid of a tick on dog

[lizzpop]

i just youtubed the best way, and doing it yourself is so easy theres no need to pay out for special gadgets really.

[rothschild]

Another way is to wet(lick) the head of a matchstick and touch the tick with it.........bingo....tick will die.

My Mum used to use this method. It allways worked but I can't remember just how long it took because I was just a little girl then and that was some time ago now.

Something to do with the sulpher on the matchstick anyhow.

 

You could also just pop into your local pet shop and buy some tick removing/killing stuff.

[loopylulu]

I removed one from my cat last week,I used a pair of tweezers,being careful not to pop it as they carry Lymes disease.I was advised not to rub anything on the tick as they bury deeper into the animal.

 

I managed to remove a tick this way from my cat - i was horrified that he had got a tick and it had to go straight away - my skin was crawling.

 

Theres a few clips on youtube showing how to remove one.

[oneemee]

You shouldn't ever use anything like Vaseline on a tick, especially if it's attached to a human, suffocating it can cause the tick to spew its stomach contents into the bloodstream, and that' something you want to avoid at all costs.

Unless you fancy a dose of Borreliosis.

[Jillybabes]

I once removed a tick from my dog using tweezers, we were lucky cos it hadn't burrowed its way in properly so tweezered it off and rubbed tea tree oil on the area it was attached to after, he was fine after.