Best way to remove ticks?

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Hi All,

Well with all this lovely spring weather, the creepy crawlies are making an appearance and Freddie has picked up a cling on in the form of a tick :-(

I put vaseline on it two days ago and it looks dead but its head is still buried in his side. I don't want to pull it out as I know if you leave the head in, it can cause an infection.

So any advice on the best way to get remove them generally - and how to remove this one in particular would be gratefully received.

I'm just tucking into a slice of blackcurrant cheesecake - feel free to help yourselves :-)
 
Tick hook.

Burn it off (stub out match and place on barsterward tick's arse) then stamp on it until it is very dead

Dab some alcohol on it (do not combine with match trick, like I did, oops)

You can also gently turn it anti clockwise, which entails touching it, ew.
 
Ha ha - yeah i don't think Freddie would like the 'crispy fried dog' look!!

Don't mind touching them, it just seems well stuck in - I had an experimental squeeze :-) Hmm, neighbour has a tick zapper apparently, I might go and borrow that...
 
A big up for the twisty tick zapper thingys - friend bought one last year when their dog had one while we were on holiday and as they already had one at home they gave it to us. I had cause to use it when LB acquired a little friend or two whilst on holiday in Wales and it was brilliant, out they came still crawling and happy - until I flushed them with boiling water down the sink!!

JDx
 
Another thumbs up for the hook!

We got a pack of two from Pets At Home, a little one and a big one, when poor Wes kept getting covered in them from a plant in the garden.

Use a very light hand though because if you pull the head off they can get really badly infected.
 
Tick hook - OR do what I did the first time I found one: shriek in horror and call your colleague to remove it for you:o:D

I can get them off myself now;)
 
Sounds like the zapper/hook is the way forward then - especially as he will pick them up fairly frequently in the summer as we live in a wood so the little barstewards are all around!!

Thanks all - here's looking forward to a tick free summer :-)
 
Another vote for the puller - dog is trained that the sight of the green tick puller means a delayed sit followed by a biscuit.

New TB youngster arrived here Saturday - found big phat tick underside of his jaw (!) and the wee star stood there while I got the 3 anticlockwise rotations and got it out still squirming. Couldn't believe he was so good. :D

Here's a link with a handy vid - http://www.otom.com/

(horrible things - bleurgh)
 
I've never used the hook but it sounds good.

Depending on where abouts it is (i.e not around eyes, mouth etc...) I wipe with a cotton bud dipped in Surgical Spirit. It drops off as a whole within an hour.
 
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