Just found a tic on my beagle's paw....?

Question

what's the safest and easiest way to remove it? He(the dog) moves around a lot...

Answer 1

Use latex exam gloves to examine your pet for ticks. Examine using good lighting.
Check your pet daily for ticks by thoroughly feeling for any lumps under the hair. Pay close attention to ears, around face, eyes, legs, and belly.
Ticks will range in size from the size of a sesame seed to the size of a fingernail (engorged).
When is tick is found embedded in the skin, use a fine pointed tweezers at the point of attachment, and grasp firmly. Remember to wear latex gloves when doing this.
Using slow, steady, and firm traction, pull the tick straight out from the skin.
Cleanse the skin with mild soap and water.
If part of the tick breaks off, you can try to remove it as you would a splinter, but it is probably best to leave it alone. The body will 'eject' it in time.
Place the tick in a jar of alcohol, noting the date, in case of future illness. Tick identification and location of tick infestation will be important.

Tips:
Do NOT use a match or caustic materials to try to smother the tick or get the tick to 'back out'. This doesn't work, and may be causing the tick to regurgitate more saliva (and potential pathogens) into the skin.
Talk to your vet about effective tick control (spray, powder, spot-on, or collar) for your pet.
Check pet daily, especially in the spring when ticks are most common.

Answer 2

"How To Remove Ticks from Dogs
(taken from behavioral guide "Because A Good Dog Is Good To Have"


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."

Answer 3

Ticks should be removed by grabbing them as close to the dog's skin as possible, using fine point tweezers, and pulling them off. try to remove the head along with the body. Try NOT to squeeze the contents of the tick's body into the bite. It takes a while for a tick to actually bury it's head under the skin, so it may not even be hooked on yet. Don't use heat or chemicals. (Although, I've used rubbing alcohol at times to "drunken" the tick a bit first. Doesn't help much, but I figure it kills germs as well.

Answer 4

Don't just pull it off all at once. Pull it and put pressure for a few second first. This way the ticks jaw gets tired and it will let go. You still have to tug a little to get it off but then you get the head too. Also check for the head before you flush it. That's how we do it.

You could also try heating a needle over a flame and touching the needle to the ticks butt. They are supposed to just back out. I've never tried it though.

I also head you can cover the ticks body with Vaseline and it will back out cus that is how they breath. Again I have no idea if that works.

Answer 5

With tweezers. You may have to have someone hold the dog for you while you remove the tic, get the tweezers as close to the dogs skin as possible and try to pull straight out. If you fail to get it all, the dog will naturally lick the wound and eventually get any remaining parts out, this will not be harmful to the pet.

Answer 6

Take a tweezer and pull it out. Then put the tick in your sink and take a candle lighter and burn it. After you burn it pick it up with a tissue or the tweezers and either throw it in the garbage or flush it down the toilet. The next time you get to a store that sells pet goods and by a liqiud or gel that keeps ticks away. Good luck!

Answer 7

That's easy!!!! Take a tweezer and pull it out. Then put the tick in your sink and take a candle lighter and burn it. After you burn it pick it up with a tissue or the tweezers and either throw it in the garbage or flush it down the toilet. The next time you get to a store that sells pet goods and by a liqiud or gel that keeps ticks away. Good luck!!!! :)

Answer 8

Personally I used my fingers to pull out the tick. The tweezers sometimes just tore the body out but left the pincers embedded in the skin because they ruptured the tick. If you can manage to get him to lie down for a moment though, you can light a match and while the head is hot after just blowing it out, you can touch the tick with it and it will drop off by itself. Or, if you're a smoker, use a lit cigarrette. You dont need to burn the things, but I -do- suggest you squash it very thoroughly.

Answer 9

I've done the same with the tweezers, but flushed the sucker down the toilet. Buy a flea and tick collar for the dog.

Answer 10

DIP HIS WHOLE PAW IN WARM SUDSY DISH WATER OR APPLY SOME VASELINe it will back out where you can grab it and dispose of it DOWN THE TOILET, dont squash with your fingers!!!! hope this works!!! or you can swab some rubbing (isopropol alchohol on the tick.....that should really do it