whats the easiest way of taking ticks off your dog?

Answer 1

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 your pet's bloodstream.

1. Grab the tick by the head or mouth parts right where they enter the skin. Do not grasp the tick by the body.

2. Without jerking, pull firmly and steadily directly outward. Do not twist the tick as you are pulling.

3. 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.

4. After removing the tick, place it in a jar of alcohol to kill it. Ticks are NOT killed by flushing them down the toilet.

5. Clean the bite wound with a disinfectant. If you want to, apply a small amount of a triple antibiotic ointment.

6. 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.
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Answer 2

see, manually is the easiest provided your dog has just 2-3 it picked up during a walk, but if there are more than 5 then a good rinse with a tick and flea shampoo should do the trick, I use tick powder too but the herbalone so the dog doesnt have to wear that lampshade like thing to avoid eating the powder off itself. but if its bordering on an infestation (ticks all over doggie, his bed, the walls) then he needs a shot, that the vet can give. basically there is no easy way as such!

Answer 3

With a pair of tweezers. Make sure you pinch it really really close to the dog's skin so you get the head of the tick. When you take the tick off, flush it or smash it on the ground. Then look at the place where it was on the dog and make sure the head is not still there. I guess it's best if you clean the area, but I never do and all my dogs are fine.

Answer 4

I've always used my fingers, but you pull it as close to the head as possible so you get the head out. Don't play around with the tick cause if its poisonous (Scrub Tick aka Cattle tick) it'll start to let it's poison out. The quicker the better.
If you got no nails then tweezers will do the trick, again make sure you get the head out!!! That's where you'll get a sick or paralyzed dog leaving the head in. It doesn't matter if it doesn't have the body it'll still be pumping the crap/poison into the animal. Put you're evil tick in some Methylated Spirits they love to drink it to death. ha ha!!!

Answer 5

Man, this can range from difficult to very difficult depending on the fur that your dog has.

This is what i follow for my dog (German Shepherd Female):

1) Take a bowl of kerosene / gasoline / diesel. (50 - 100 ml)
2) Use your finger - eye co-relation to replace tweezers/plucker,
pull that damn thing off your dog's skin and immediately put that tick in the bowl.
3) You gotto run your fingers through your dog's coat and try to feel and locate any lumpy / fatty obstacles .
4) Use both the hands for best scanning of ticks. You have to use your thumb and index finger to spread the dog's hair so that its skin is visible, then use your other hand's fingers to pull that damn tick out.
5) Dont forget to check thoroughly in its paw (inner paws escply).

Chrs,
-Gopi

Answer 6

There are "tick pliers" that work great made by Coghlan.
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Answer 7

However you get them out is up to you, tweezers, fingers, whatever, just make sure you get the head. You cannot "smash" ticks, it doesnt kill them. The best way to make sure it is not going to jump on you next is to put it in a piece of tape. I tried to cut one in half one time with a dull knife.......didn't do s*** to the little nasty............ put them in tape. It suffocates them.

Answer 8

I think if you use 'FRONTLINE', you dont need to remove any more ticks anymore.

A doggie comb is quite useful also.

Answer 9

um give it a bath with soap(scrub hard) then try to take off some if they are easy to get to then brush it then give it flea medicine