The American Beagler Forum

What is the appropriate way to remove a tick? (from your dog)

Whatever way it takes, just make sure you get the head with the rest of the tick. You can use your wife (or girlfriend) with long fingernails. She better really like you tho... Just pinch and make sure you get the head...

Emery

i have always been told if you have to pull one to twist it counter clock wise as you do it this is supposed to back the head out not real sure if thats anything more than an old wives tail also if you can animal to stand still sometimes a hot butter knife under the ticks butt will cause to back out for you

I think the very safest way is to spray a good flea and tick killer on the dog. I spray mine during tick season after coming back from running them. I have heard it's best if they just turn loose and drop off and die, no danger of leaving anything then. If anyone knows a better way than this or being very careful as the above posts suggest, I'm open to suggestions. I remember a neighbor's house dog getting down with tick fever once. It affects the nervous system, but is easily cured with antibiotics. I literally raked ticks off the dog after I had dipped him in flea and tick dip. Made me so sick I hurled up lunch. There were literally thousands of ticks on the dog. Grossest thing I have ever seen, before or since. Ticks can be deadly if it gets extreme, and they carry disease. This is something serious and we all encounter it. By the way, the guy's dog got well after the vet gave him IV antibiotics and the dog slept on my front porch from then on. Must have been grateful, I guess.

DRAMEY ARE YOU SOME KIND OF SCIENTIST?jUST WONDERING YOU SEEM TO ALWAYS HAVE A GOOD ANSWER TO EVERYTHING,THANKS FOR YOUR GREAT LOGIC

Sprinkle seven dust on them and in their box

Sevin dust is the stuff,i've been using it for 4yrs now I sprinkle about 2oz in the boxes about 4-6 times during the summer and 3-4 times during the winter I haven't had flea or tick problems since I started.I see ticks laying on the backs of dogs the next day after I take them out during the heaviest part of the season june and july here in Pa.Now if I can only figure out how to dust myself with it like the birds do I'd run in some of the heavier covered spots I have hmmm!

I always heard you lay a hot match on the tick and they will let go,then flush 'em down the toilet.....as for prevention I also agree 7 dust works good,,,,,Shannon

Guys buy you a spray bottle of Front Line,That is what I use and only spray them a couple of times in the summer and never see a tick or flea on them.

Sevin dust for the ones on them now. Then get PREVENTIC collars from JEFFERSPETS.com They work great!

this sevin dust u guye r talkin about where can u get it. thanks

You can get seven dust at any garden supply store or feed store.Be sure it is 10% Seven as it comes in stronger strengths.I get an old fruit jar and punch lots of holes in the lid with an eight penny nail.Fill it up with seven and turn it upside down and use the lid on the jar to rub against the grain of the hair all over the dog.It keeps from getting it all over your hands,you might have to turn the jar right side up occassionally to loosen the seven dust.
I also take an old cotton sock and put seven dust in it and when I am out hunting I take the sock and bump it all over my legs from the knees down and on my boots.It sure helps to keep those rascals off along with other pesky insects....chiggers drive me wild.

Guest, (Swing?) No, I'm obviously not some kind of scientist, since I didn't have the best suggestion to this. I definitely WILL gt some Sevin dust, though. It's definitely less expensive and easier to apply than the sprays, since most hounds are freaked out by spraying on them. I like Pappy's suggestion about the jar. I believe you explained that once before and I meant to try it and forgot. Probably when I was thinking about it one of my young'uns went to squalling! This past summer I used something from Wal-Mart with permethrin or cyperpermethrin or something like that in it. I put it on my chaps. Have to be careful with it, though, bad for kids. It says to apply it in a well-ventilated place and let it dry. Can't detect a smell and it works for 2-3 weeks even in dew. I have seen ticks fall off my chaps. Again, Pappy's suggestion with the sock is a lot easier and cheaper.

I forgot to mention that the best way to get it in a sock is use the same jar and stretch the sock over it and dump it all inside.Don't put to much in the sock and to start with it takes a while for the seven to filter through the sock so keep patting it against your leg until it seeps through.

Don't just wash them down the drain.. This past year in Indiana, at the ARHA LP World hunt, I must have got into a nest because I picked off my back at least 30 tiny ticks in the motel one evening. I was washing them down the sink drain as fast as I could pick them off. When I was finished the ticks appeared to be gone and I shut off the water. The next morning there must have been 15 of them either in the basin or on the counter just crawling around....