How to Get a Tick Off a Dog
Though there are many different types of ticks, they are all are blood feeding parasites that feed off of a host. Ticks start out incredibly small and then get larger as the engorge with blood. Ticks can carry many diseases and you need to be sure you remove the whole tick and do not leave any part of the head embedded inside of the body or you may end up with an infection.
Instructions
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Once you have identified the location of a the tick take some liquid soap and put about a teaspoon of it on a wad of toliet paper.
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Hold the toliet paper with the soap over the tick firmly for about a minute (time will vary). This smothers the tick and he backs out on his own.
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Grab the tick with the toliet paper when it backs out and flush it down the toliet to be sure it isn't wandering around your house some where.
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Tips & Warnings
You can also remove ticks with tweezers but you have to be VERY careful to pull it straight out so as not to leave the head inside the body.
If a red circular rash appears around the bite contact a doctor or vet immediately.
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I was skeptical of this so I tried it on my Corgi, he had a fairly large tick that was very embedded. I thought it didn't work but then I looked and the tick was gone! He had fallen off onto the floor and was still alive! It was great not to have to worry about yanking on it with tweezers and hurting my dog!
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when your dad used the vaseline did then use a papertowel to get it off or just washed them with soap until the ticks washed off
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Use Petroleum Jelly. That is what really smothers the tick
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That sounds easy. Rob has better idea.
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This didn't really work. My dog had a couple so I ended up just pulling them out with the tweezers. I got a good hold on the body and then pulled real hard and fast and they came out - even the heads.
