how to remove a tick from a long haired puppy's head(ANSWERS NEEDED)?

Question

my 10 wk oldlabradoodle with a fleece coat has a tick on her head, just on the brow, how do i remove it?

Answer 1

If you're going to attempt to remove the tick youself, , DO NOT apply petroleum jelly, a hot match, or alcohol will NOT cause the tick to 'back out.' In fact, these irritants may cause the tick to deposit more disease-carrying saliva in the wound.



To remove an attached tick, use a pair of fine-tipped tweezers or special tick removal instruments. These special devices allow one to remove the tick without squeezing the tick body. This is important as you do not want to crush the tick and force harmful bacteria to leave the tick and enter your pet's bloodstream.



Grab the tick by the head or mouth parts right where they enter the skin. Do not grasp the tick by the body.



Without jerking, pull firmly and steadily directly outward. Do not twist the tick as you are pulling.



After removing the tick, place it in a jar of alcohol to kill it. Ticks are NOT killed by flushing them down the toilet.



Clean the bite wound with a disinfectant. If you want to, apply a small amount of a triple antibiotic ointment.



Wash your hands thoroughly.



Please do not use your fingers to remove or dispose of the tick. We do not want you in contact with a potentially disease-carrying tick. Do NOT squash the tick with your fingers. The contents of the tick can transmit disease.



Once an embedded tick is manually removed, it is not uncommon for a welt and skin reaction to occur. A little hydrocortisone spray will help alleviate the irritation, but it may take a week or more for healing to take place. In some cases, the tick bite may permanently scar leaving a hairless area. This skin irritation is due to the irritating and destructive tick saliva. It is not due to the tick losing its head, literally. Do not be worried about the tick head staying in; it rarely happens. The swelling is due to toxic saliva, not toxic heads.

Answer 2

If its not in too deep, you can still see the head, you might be able to pull it out. Grab it carefully with some type of tweezers or hemostat and try to pull it out. If it looks like the head is going to come off, stop. You might need to see a vet. If you can see the tick moving, and its not in too deep, you can try a match. Get all the hair away from the tick, have someone hold the dogs head. Light a match and shake it out. Immediately, while it is still red, hold the match as close to the ticks bottom as you can without actually touching it. The tick might let go of the puppy and you can grab it with a tissue and flush it.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

There is a cool little tool - a tiny 'spoon' with a slit in it that allows you to remove the tick, head & all, without touching it. Pet-Medic Tick Removing Kits

http://www.petco.com/Shop/Product.aspx?R=4363&Nav=1&N=0&Ntt=tick&cp=3&Nao=24&sku=630187&familyID=14800&FamilyID=14800&sku=630187 There are various versions, they all are similar and work.



I have used it: get one, keep it handy, Use it! then get your pets on a good tick /flea preventative, like Frontline, and keep 'em on it!



Ticks can carry Lyme Disease as well as other diseases that can be passed on to YOU as well as your pets. If at all possible, you want to remove the tick before 24 - 48 hrs have passed, before it swells enough for body fluids to exchange much. For that reason, you do not want to handle the tick, tear it apart, or squish it. the blood it has sucked up can pass disease even if the tick is removed.



Once you remove it - to make sure it is dead, put it in a plastifc baggie with some rubbing Alchohol - to kill any germs or disease - and show the baggie to your vet. (drowning completely in alchohol WILL kill and disinfect the bug, but you can't 'drown' it while still attached!) The Vet can tell you if the tick is a type that can carry Lyme disease. Make sure you wash your hands thoughroughly after removing the tick, wash the dog's head, & anything you used, as well. Even if you get all the tick, before 24 hrs, & it isn't a 'Lyme" tick, your dog can still have an irritated itch or allergic reaction to the bite. clean well!



The Alchohol, vaseline, hot match/ needle, etc are all "old" remedies that are outdated because they never worked very well, and before people really knew about Lyme disease, etc. (If someone put a hot match to your butt, would you let go? or dig in deeper to get away from it? and what about the poor dog? he gets the hot match, too?)

Answer 4

The removal of a tick can be difficult. Take your pup to the vet if this is your first time dealing with ticks. You can watch what they do and learn for the next time. Good Luck.

P.S. You might want to think of using a pre-treatment program if you live in an area that has lots of ticks. Talk to your vet about different products that are available to you.

Answer 5

If you find a tick on your dog, you should first find the spot and hold a cotton swab full of mineral oil against the tick completely. This will begin the process of easing the release of the tick on your dog. Then you’ll want to use tweezers to pinch the tick off your dog. With the tweezers you should pinch the skin around the tick. The tick grasps its head against the dog’s skin face first. So you need to grab the head of the tick deep in your dog’s skin and lift it out.



The tick removal process can be very painful for your dog. You need to be aware of that. Because this is so difficult for a pet, you should certainly give your pet a treat as soon as the entire process is over, so it won’t be as scared when it has to be done again.





You should take some steps to make sure your pet doesn’t get as many ticks. You can do this by getting a tick collar that is designed to keep ticks away, walking your dog in a clear area as ticks like wooded areas, and check out you and your dog regularly for ticks.

Answer 6

I use a Q-tip to apply flea and tick shampoo directly to the tick (no water). They hate it and start kicking their legs around. I then use tweezers to pull the tick straight out. I can burn it then without worrying about putting a hot match so close to my dog's skin. This has worked every time for me, and never leaves any part of the tick behind.



Wash the tick bite with warm water (the shampoo is already there) and that should be it.

Answer 7

Use fine-tipped tweezers to grasp the tick at the skin surface. If tweezers are not available, use a tissue or paper towel to protect your fingers from possible exposure to the tick's body fluids. With a steady motion, gently pull the tick straight out. Do not twist, jerk or crush the tick's body. After removal, clean site and hands with soap and water.

Answer 8

Push the dogs hair down on either side of tic and using tweezers, or your fingernails, grab the tick by it's base and pull up. Make sure not to leave the tic's head behind in the dog's skin. Sometimes, it will break off while pulling it's body out.

Answer 9

This is how I do it. first light and blow out a match. touch the hot end of the blown out match directly on the tick to kill it. use rubbing alcohol to swab the tick and area where it is attached. using tweezers grasp the ticks mouth as close to the skin as possible. now with gentle constant pressure pull the ticks mouth parts straight out....be gentle so you dont break off the tick under the skin.

Answer 10

There is a product called Campho Phenique.

Put some on a cotton ball and apply to tick. It will come off right away. Then burn tick with match.

Put peroxide on spot where tick was. Do Not use this method on humans. It can cause tick to put more toxin in human and cause severe irritation and or Lyme disease.

Answer 11

Tie a loop of thread around the ticks head, give it a poke with a hot needle from a candle, and tug gently.



Clean area with disinfectant when done.

Answer 12

take tweezers and get around the head of the tick and make sure the entire tick is removed head and all. if you think you've missed any of it, then take your dog to the vet when they open tue. also you can get frontline there it protects against ticks and can be applied to a 10wk old dog.

Answer 13

Just grab it with the tweezers or with your fingers and a tissue and pull up slowly until it releases. You don't want to pay a vet bill for something you can do by yourself. We have pull several ticks off our cocker spaniel and our beagle.

Answer 14

im a groomer so i know. you pinch the tick as close as you can to the dogs skin and slowly pull it. try to make sure you get the head. you dont need a vet for this. the only way to kill ticks are fire, dismembering or pesticide.

Answer 15

Take a pair of tweezers, grasp the tick as close to your puppy's skin as you can get, squeeze and pull.

Answer 16

i have a long haired boarder collie and i just part the fur where the tick is, grab it with tweezers and twist it until it comes off. (ur dog will try to get away)

Answer 17

Oh please, dogs and people get ticks all the time and you DON'T go lighting things on fire or stabbing them with needles or smearing vaseline on them.



Grab the tick as close to the skin as possible and pull slowly back.

Answer 18

It's kind dangerous, but you can get a nail and heat it up until it turn fiery red or yellow on the stove, or with a lighter. When you touch the tick on the back with the nail it should release and or bust. Try this it should work for you....



P.S

Be very careful when you do it not to burn your-self or your pup o.k.... good luck.....

Answer 19

Try putting fingernail polish remover on the tick

Answer 20

slather it with vaseline, and when it can't breathe, it'll unattach from the dog. If you try to pull the tick out, the head could dislodge in the dog and continue to cause problems.

Answer 21

Rub only a fingerfull of rubbing alcohol on the tick since it is near the eye, It should let go or die soon.

Answer 22

Tweezers and drop into some rubbing alchok to kill it. other methods willusually break open thesack that contains the blood they have sucked out of the dog.

Answer 23

You don't want to pull the tick off.



The best way is with hot needle.

heat up sewing needle with a lighter, touch the needle to the tick.

It will let go then you can dispose of it.

Answer 24

cover the tick in peanut butter or vaseline. . .it will back out and then remove it. I've had ticks on me and it works. Do not try to squish it.

Don't try to pull it out or the head may remain and cause an infection.

Hope this helps you!

Answer 25

go to the vet.....



if you can't get in soon, put a gob of vaseline or shortening on the tick itself. The tick will have to detach itself to get its breath, and you will be able to get rid of it. ....that stupid tick!

Answer 26

Grabing it with tweezers would probably be the best way to get it off

Answer 27

put a lit cigarette to the tick and it will back it out. MAKE SURE YOU GET THE HEAD OF THE TICK OUT (use tweezers)

Answer 28

Grab the tick with tweezers and use a lit match to burn it off.



You'll need help holding the pup still. Good luck!

Answer 29

1. pour alcohol over it

or

2. light a match and let it flare for a couple seconds, then touch it to the tic

Answer 30

1)get a pair of tweezers

2)remove it

3)get a lighter & burn that sucker

Answer 31

go to a veterian they will know

Answer 32

with tweezers and squish it!!!