Tick

Oldbat1 will you not use Bravecto because it is so powerful? I do worry about the chemicals in worming and flea /tick medication. I don't give my dog the medication every 3 months as advised; I try to space it out to about every 5 months instead. She is already on anti-inflammatory medication for her arthritis, so try to keep other medication to a minimum.

I can’t get on with the removers. He only gets them so very rarely and I’ve always used Vaseline with no adverse affect.

Hate ticks - not sure what purpose they serve. Please do not cover ticks with Vaseline it isn’t advised by the Veterinary professionals. Don’t pull them off either, or burn with cigarette, or cover in alcohol all frowned upon. It is recommended a tick remover is used. I carry one in my purse and in my mobile phone cover. Very cheap to buy. Either clockwise or anti-clockwise just keep twirling until it is removed. Bravecto certainly works but I won’t use it on any of my animals.

I regularly pull off ticks from my golden retriever, we live in a rural area and it’s always the case from around April to September although found some in the Winter as it was mild. I check her every day after walks, one today, none for the previous few days then 4. She loves to roll and wander. I use a tick remover, she’s fine with it, the hook goes under the body and pull. Then I put it in a tub of bleach to kill. Or traditionally you should put it in whiskey!

I wonder if that’s in my 1,000 uses for Vaseline booklet that I’ve had for thirty years…..

I smother them in Vaseline leave it for a time to suffocate them, then whip them out with some tweezers.

He gets about one a year - sheep usually.

I’ve never had to deal with one thankfully but do have huge collection of tick removers just in case I do. Having said that I don’t really know how to remove one. Is it clockwise/anti clockwise? I don’t know why I’ve never come across one given that we walk in fields that have sheep and deer.

Horrible things, I've had them attached to me and my dogs after walking on Exmoor. Our current dog had several when we returned from a short holiday and although I managed to remove them from his body he got very snappy when I tried to remove them from his nose. I absolutely loathe them! He gets a three monthly dose of Bravecto now and hasn't had a tick on him since.