Today i had to take off a hug yellow tick off my dog!ahg it was so nasty:/ Just a heads up never just pull out a tick, You have to pull it a little for about a minute, slowly the tick will let go then pull it out and make sure the head comes out too. If you have any animals pleeeeease check them! ticks cause a lot of different diseases!
Best gadget EVER if you live in a tick-prone area - http://www.tickkey.com/ I've got one on my keychain and one on the zipper pull of my backpack and my dog's backpack for when we hike.
Every tick removal from my dog was a 2 person operation You have to twist the tick a bit before you pull it out, it makes the head come with it easier Used one that looked like the blue one.
Every time I click on this thread and see that picture, it makes me feel queasy Please get to the second page soon
If I got them, I would completely freak out! It would be so horrible Leaches are bad enough though, but one thing that really creeps me out are worms...
When i was a kid my mom made me de-tick the dog. It was a nightmare! It got them between the toes, in the ears, etc. I didn't know the heads came off. I guess i never noticed. edit: and i didn't have any tools. just my bare hands.
A few years ago my dog became very ill. After a multitude of blood tests and all sorts it turned out that she had a tick born disease. It took six months of horrible medication (accompanied by anti vomit drugs) to make her well. I'm not saying cure because the disease is dormant in her bloodstream and could reappear. My vet told me that she is the only animal she knows that has survived this. So yeah, a cautionary tale. By the way we always use that liquid anti flea,tic and fuck knows what stuff. Didn't help. The vet said there is a slight chance that my dog's mother carried the disease and she was born with it but we'll never know.
Aww the poor thing My dog used to have terrible fleas when he was a puppy, but we tried some new stuff and it seemed to kick in. My old used used to get them a lot, so I always checked now to make sure.
Which one did your dog have? Erlichea and Lyme are both serious but fatalities are frankly very rare. I've had dogs get both, and usually just a course of doxycycline clears it up. (They do test positive afterwards, of course, but that's normal immune response.) There's no perfect tick repellant. Frontline takes up to 24 hours to kill them and only works after they bite. Disease transmission from the tick to the dog takes between 24-48 hours, minimum, so it can kill the ticks but not prevent disease. We've had good luck with PrevenTic collars but they're still not perfect. The best thing to do is check your dog every day you've been in an area with ticks.
I got bit by a tick once a long time ago, nasty little fuckers. Took a hunk of skin with it when I pulled it off. My dog got one too and I did not notice for a few days, thing was huge, yuk:ack2:
I can't remember the disease but I know for definite it wasn't Lyme.And the local vet hospital lab couldn't identify it so we had to wait until blood samples came back from Barcelona to get a correct diagnosis. As I said earlier, the treatment was so severe she had to get anti sickness medication as well. We use Spot-on and an anti -parasitic collar all the time and she still gets tics. It's an ongoing battle.
douse the little fucker in rubbing alcohol and he'll let go in a hurry, same with vaseline- he starts to suffocate and lets go.
