Hi,
Dr. Eric Barchas, DVM, wrote the following on What is the Best Way to Remove a Tick From my Pet?
I found it interesting information so I extracted part of it as follows :
"One day in class Dr. Patricia Conrad, parasitologist and expert in the field, described the best way to remove a tick. I wish I had known it sooner. I find that it removes entire ticks about 90% of the time.
Here, according to Dr. Conrad, is the best way to remove a tick from your pet:
Grasp the tick firmly with hemostats (aka tweezers) as close to the skin as possible. Pull gently but firmly straight away from the skin until the tick comes out. Do not twist. Avoid grasping the tick’s abdomen. This can cause regurgitation of stomach contents into your pet, increasing the likelihood of Lyme disease, Ehrlichiosis, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, and other scary tick-borne diseases.
Some other points: tick prevention is better than tick removal. In my experience, Frontline is the tick preventative with the best safety and efficacy profile. No tick preventative is 100% effective."
Hopefully, you do not have to experience removing any tick yourself and prevention should be the choice of the day instead.
Frontline is definitely a proven product so do give it a try.
David
1 comment:
Frontline and the other Tick repellents are ok, as long as your dogs do not play together a lot. I used it on my dogs , who play together all the time, and they within 24 hours of applying it they both became very ill. Vomiting and lethargic. The problem is that when dogs play, they mouth over each others nap of the neck and other parts of body, getting the product into their system. So if you have playful dogs, or your dog plays with others, you may want to find a different way to protect them against ticks.Oh, and if they lick their fur a lot they can ingest it as well.
Luckily I found out in time. My vet told me she has seen more than a few dogs become very ill and even a few that have died from this.
So just be cautious, but not paranoid. And I wouldnt punish my pet for playing with other animals just out of fear of this. They really dont know why your telling them they cant do something they do naturally and have been doing to years without problem. Just my opinion on that.
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