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Whats the easiest way to remove a tick from my dog2007-11-25 2:54:39

Is there something I can put on it first to make it come out easier?

It's pretty big and Im afraid I wont get the head out by pulling on it. Blaaahhhh

Thanks for your help!

Answers:

Don't try to remove it, you will squeeze the juices into the dog and make an infection. Get some flea & tick spray ( I like Adam's - blue bottle). Just spray the tick and it will die without injecting juices into your dog. Then it will fall off. I've tried all the tick removers. This is the best way. Never had a problem with the spray.

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get twesers

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use flea/tick prevenative?

aside from that just use tweenzers to grab the HEAD, as close to the skin as possible and pull it off. you may take some skin away but it's better than leaving the tick on there to grow fatter on your dog's blood. poor some peroxide on the bite after you ahve flushed the tick down the toilet (don't just throw it away, the little bugger will haunt you again)

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Light a match, and AS SOON as you blow it out, hold it to the tick. Then TWIST the tick, DON'T pull as you could leave his head imbedded..good luck

Oh...and by the way...if it's swollen it has been on a while, so whether it's on you or your dog, please be checked, as they carry Lyme disease.

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Well you could burn it off. Thats what we always do when our dog comes in with a tick on his fur. You could probably put the tweezers in boiling water then pull the tick off.

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Dabbing Metholated Spirits on the tick will draw it out, and then use tweezers to pull the tick out.

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