PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! how do u get a tick without picking it off ??

Question

is there like a powder that may help (cat) its already has blood
mayb bleach or somethin??


i dont even want 2 grab it with a tweezers yukk

but cats have fur i dont wanna burn the cat lol

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Answer 1

don't pour bleach or anything on your cat. i know you don't want to, but you are gonna have to pick the tick off with tweezers, or have someone else do it. make sure that ALL of the tick is off of your cat, if you leave just the head on and pick off the bodie, it can still live. once you have the tick off, burn it. that way you know that it is completely dead.

Answer 2

Hi there...here are some web articles on how to remove ticks from a cat:

http://www.lisashea.com/petinfo/articles/cat_tick.html
http://cats.about.com/cs/criseswithcats/ht/removetick.htm

Assemble supplies on your kitchen counter: sharp-nosed tweezers, a small jar of alcohol, disinfectant, hydrocortisone spray.

Have a helper hold the cat steady for you.
Using the tweezers, grab the tick at the head part right where it enters the cat's body. Do NOT grab the tick by its body.
Pull steadily and firmly outward, without twisting or jerking.
Place the tick in the jar of alcohol to kill it.
Swab the cat's skin around the bite wound with a disinfectant.
Spray the area with the hydrocortisone spray to help alleviate irritation and itching.
Wash your hands well with soap and water.


Tips:

The old wives tales of using vaseline, alcohol or kerosene to make the tick 'back out' do NOT work. Such actions may even cause the tick to deposit more toxin into the cat's tissues.

Subsequent irritation or swelling are caused by the tick's toxic saliva, not by the head remaining in the wound. Continue the Hydrocortisone spray to help relieve the irritation.

Monitor the cat's general condition for a couple of weeks. If he displays any untoward symptoms other than a welt and/or redness around the wound, that don't go away in a few days, call your veterinarian.


What You Need:

Sharp tweezers
Alcohol in container
Hydrocortisone Spray
Disinfectant

Answer 3

I read somewhere to put Vaseline on it...and there's another remedy....shoot, it's in my e-mail. Lemme go have a look and I'll come back :))

here's what I found:

A School Nurse has written the info below -- good enough to
>>share -- And it really works!!
>>
>>I had a pediatrician tell me what she believes is the best
>>way to remove a tick. This is great , because it works in those places
>>where it's some times difficult to get to with tweezers: between toes, in
>>the middle of a head full of dark hair, etc.
>>
>>Apply a glob of liquid soap to a cotton ball. Cover the tick
>>with the soap-soaked cotton ball and swab it for a few seconds (15-20), the
>>tick will come out on it's own and be stuck to the cotton ball when you
>>lift it away.
>>This technique has worked every time I've used it (and that was
>>frequently), and it's much less traumatic for the patient and easier for
>>me.
>>Unless someone is allergic to soap, I can't see that this would be
>>damaging in any way.

Answer 4

everyone who's suggesting the blown-out match trick is forgetting that you're dealing with a cat - doubtful that it's going to hold still long enough for you to make this work. The better option is to put the vaseline on the tick to smother it - it will NOT make the cat sick if it gets licked off, petroleum jelly is good for helping with hairballs. Just don't let the cat lick at it until you've got the tick off! You should never grab a tick with tweezers, all you'll pull off is the body, leaving the head buried inside the cat. Ick.

Answer 5

Aw, sorry. :) Your best bet really is to gently remove it with tweezers, but if you put some vaseline on it the tick will smother and eventually fall off. The reason I recommend NOT using that technique on an animal is that the cat will probably lick the vaseline off and get seriously sick from it.

Meanwhile, get some kitty Frontline Plus, and he'll never pick up a tick again.

Answer 6

tout of all the methods i have herd of, the best way, is to take petroleum jelly, and put a big glob over the thing, and watch and wait. what that does is completely cuts of the supply of oxygen, which it to has to have to live, and in it 's search for air to breathe, it will back out without any more pain than it has already caused, and you can remove it with paper towel, and a good medication is already on your skin. this is a fact! hope this eases you mind a little bit. jimmyg

Answer 7

Use a pair of tweezers and twist it off. Make sure you grab tthe tick BY THE HEAD

Answer 8

You have to burn it off. Have someone else take something long and hot at the tip and put it right on the tick. He'll let go and fall off.

Answer 9

When I was little we used to light a match and then blow it out but while it was still hot we would stick it on the tick and it would make it pull it's head out long enough to yank it off with tweezers.
Eewwww!!!
Best wishes!!

Answer 10

Just apply frontline, within 24 hrs the tick will die then fall off.