How do you remove a tick from a cat?

Question

HELP!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

My father's dogs had ticks and he would just remove them with a pair of tweezers. He would drop them into a little alcohol (the kind you clean wounds with, not the kind you drink.) or he would hold them over a lighter until he heard a little "pop" sound.

You may want to check your home for ticks as well because once you see one you'll see them EVERYWHERE. My parents divorced when i was young. my sister & i would go visit our father every other weekend until one day his neighbor brought home a tick infested dog. The ticks easily found their way to my father's home. (he had 2 dogs of his own) The ticks spread quickly throughout his house. They could be found climbing the walls & in the carpet. My sister and I even woke many a night to find a tick crawling on us. Disgusting feeling, i might add.

You may want to consider getting some of those insect "bombs" to set up in your home to make sure you don't get infested with ticks.

Good luck!

Answer 2

The same way that you do for all animals, and people for that matter.

The only thing that's really holding the tick in is it's head. However, you want to make sure you have the rest of tick's body nice and loose so you can get a firm hold on it. So just make sure to get any fur untangled or whatever.

Once you have the body nice and loose so you can flap it back and forth, then get a good hold on it, right up toward the head that's buried into the animal.

You then gently twist the tick in a cord screw manner and pull gently as you are twisting. The tick should then easily come out.

What you don't want to do is to not get a good hold on the tick or just pull it straight out forcefully, because if you do, you then take a change of tearing the ticks body from its head, and if you do this, then the animal could get infected from leaving the ticks head in (although I've never had this happen.)

Don't be afraid, though, as ticks are "resilient" critters that have been around a long time, and they are very difficult just to rip apart. Like I said, just hold the tick firmly and corkscrew as you gently pull and make sure you pull hard enough to get it out, especially since it could be caught up on the fur some.

Good luck and I wish I could be there to give you encouragement, but once you do it, you will be confident enough to help others.

Answer 3

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

NOTE:
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.

Answer 4

I know it can be sorta weird. To remove a tick from a cat, it's as if you're removing a tick from yourself or another person. WEAR GLOVES!!! Using tweezers, and grab the tick firmly by the head. Pull straight out, don't twist. Once you've dislodged it and removed it, put it in rubbing alcohol. Ticks have an air sack that will help them survive going down the toilet (which most people think will kill them). Make sure the tick is completely covered in rubbing alcohol, and in about 10 minutes... DING! He's dead. Hope that helped you.

Answer 5

Use a pair of tweezers to pull the tick out. Pull it straight out and don't twist it, you want to get the entire tick off. Drop the tick in some alcohol and it will kill it.

You can try using a hot butter knife to get the tick to detach without pulling it out. But I would only recommend that if you have a patient kitty that will sit still enough for you to do that. You don't want to burn her.

Answer 6

Heat up a pin [I do it with a flame]. Touch it just to the back of the tick. This will make it release its mouth. Then you yank it off with tweezers. Or, wear latex gloves and pick it off, if you don't have tweezers.

Bag or bottle up the tick to throw it out -- they'll survive all your attempts to squish them! -- and wipe down your baby with some peroxide. It may leave a scar with no hair.

ETA: Just read all the other answers here. Ew! Definitely take care of the problem if you've seen more than one tick. One species does carry lyme disease, which can cause a multitude of awful, incurable human diseases like fibromyalgia.

Answer 7

Have you tried Googling pet remedies already?? Try dry powder remover for cats or you can carefully heat the point of a tweezers and then pinch and burn the tick until it releases the grip on your pet enough to remove it by twisting. Because as any pet website will tell you if you pull it without making it release first the "teeth" and head can remain in your pet causing more trouble for you.

Answer 8

I used Clorox and water 1/2 and 1/2 Clorox then puled the tick out with tweezers. My friends down south say they jump in a pool with chlorine and that takes them off. The mixture worked and I got the whole tick first try.

Answer 9

If you're not too squeamish, grab it with your fingers and pull it straight out. Don't put vaseline or nail polish remover or anything like that on it. When you do that, this causes the tick to "vomit" and spew all kinds of bacteria or viruses into the bite. Make sure you wash your hands afterward, of course.

Answer 10

First make sure that you can see the head of the tick, pull back all the hair and take a pair of twizzers and pull it out , you have to get the head so do play with it and if the head is buried and you don't think you can get it out call your local vet. It's not that hard. just don't break it off.