David Cruz Webboard User Reg: 02-07-2006
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Well, I tried and it did start to back out, but I couldn't get enough of a grip to pull it. I didn't want to mess up and leave the head in there, so I figure I'll just let the vet take care of it. Thanks for all the help, at least I have some sort of idea of what to expect.
Come on, David, you CAN do this & save yourself the unnecessary Vet bill (!!!)
Use a piece of bathroom tissue to get a better hold on it, grasp the tick firmly, pull it straight out SLOWLY but steadily, seal it in a see-through baggie & then POP the disgusting thing for a gross bit of morbid fun <:-O
Matthew Grubb Webboard User Reg: 09-27-2002
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Growing up in NJ we had ticks everywhere…. At the beginning of each summer my dad would fill a mason jar with rubbing alcohol and put the ticks he pulled off the sheltie in the jar. His record was 32. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
However, I always just grabbed as close to the ticks head and possible and pulled straight out. It's very important to 1) remove the head and mouthparts, 2) not squeeze the ticks body as you are pulling it out. Squeezing can force the parasites & pathogens from the tick's blood engorged body into the dog. Not good.
What Charlie's saying is true, but someone who's never done this before should probably not try it. I do it this way, but backing up to a forest preserve, I pulled countless ticks off my childhood dogs and myself. I checked the dogs after every long walk in the woods, so I got most of theirs before they'd attached, but always seemed to forget MYSELF.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> Anyway, it's a lot easier to have someone who knows what they're doing just take the whole thing off than try to pick out what's left of a now-decapitated tick.
David Cruz Webboard User Reg: 02-07-2006
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Hey all, thanks for the tips! I'm originally from NY, we've got the cleaner air.......How about those METS?
And as far as the tick goes, I poured the alcohol onto it like you guys said, and when my wife took him to get checked, the tick was dead! The vet said that it was good that we did that, the alcohol killed him during the night. There isn't any lyme disease out here in the UK, the most that could happen is an infection that would go away with meds.
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