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07-05-2005, 07:38 AM | #1 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Apr 2005
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| Found a tick!! We went camping over the fourth and my husband found a tick on my little baby. He read somewhere that if you put vasoline on it. It will somther the tick and back out of the skin. We did that and the tick did back out so my husband could remove the tick. My little one got his vaccine for this because we do alot of camping but is there anything else we need to do. |
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07-05-2005, 07:48 AM | #2 |
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| The vaccine is just for Lyme disease. There are other tick borne diseases that there is no vaccine for but they can be treated with antibiotics. Do you not use a topical like FrontLine or so? Keeping the ticks off might be the best way to go. I would recommend you ask your vet about that. The ticks that are easy to see are NOT theones that carry Lyme disease but they do carry the Rickettsiae which can cause Rocky Mt. Spotted fever. I am glad to hear the vaseline worke. If ever that doesn't work, try a cap full of alcohol held over the tick til it backs out. They take in air thru their bodies and you are suffocating them.A small amount of cooking oil, orany oil, will do the same thing. You can use the cap from the bottle is you have nothing else. Keep camping and keep healthy. |
07-05-2005, 07:57 AM | #3 |
Maximus "Lily's Love Slave" Join Date: May 2005 Location: san ramon, ca
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| Frontline is what I use..and I have never seen a tick on Maximus..I also gave the lyme vaccine
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07-05-2005, 08:06 AM | #4 |
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| Once my youngest daughter kept complaining about her ear hurting. I looked and looked, found nothing. Then she put her head on my lap and under the lip of the ear I saw the tick. I was hysterical, of course, hubby was at work. He's a fireman. I called the station and told him what was going on, that I was terrified it would crawl into her ear and he told me the same thing. Get a qtip, a glob of vaseline and leave it on until the tick lets go. It smothers them and it worked like a charm. I'll never forget that experience. I found a tick on my furbaby, who was on Advantage when I got her. My vet recommends Frontline Plus because it kills ticks as well as fleas and that is what my two are on. I have never seen another tick, flea or anything on them since changing to Frontline Plus. |
07-05-2005, 08:41 AM | #5 |
YT 6000 Club Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: CA
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| How do you find fleas and ticks on your babies? They are so small and dark and our babies fur is dark. How do you all find them??
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07-05-2005, 09:01 AM | #6 | |
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Niether Missy or Max has had a tick but I used to live on a ranch and our golden retrievers and lab had them all the time. They are so gross, I hate ticks.
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07-05-2005, 09:10 AM | #7 | |
Maximus "Lily's Love Slave" Join Date: May 2005 Location: san ramon, ca
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07-05-2005, 09:11 AM | #8 |
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| What about fleas? How would you feel or see those?
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07-05-2005, 09:12 AM | #9 |
Maximus "Lily's Love Slave" Join Date: May 2005 Location: san ramon, ca
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| I think those hop...put on white pants and sock and you will see them jumping....I use the frontline plus and it kills all those things...speaking of which I have to put more on Maximus tonight
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07-05-2005, 10:12 AM | #10 |
I Love My Yorkies Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
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| I have never heard of that with the vaseoline. I will have to keep that in mind.
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07-05-2005, 10:25 AM | #11 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: England
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| Poor you! To find a tick must have been horrible! Luckily, Buddy has never had a tick. I also haven't heard of that with the vaseline either... Will remeber that, just incase we ever to find a tick on our baby. -Jade
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07-05-2005, 10:45 AM | #12 | |
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lucky for us - no fleas ever - but Chanel DID have them from her breeder - I found them after her first bath seeing the 'dirt' on her little tiny head....and yes - it was from fleas. Ticks are nasty creatures just like Fleas - Frontline Plus is the best treatment for both these leeching scaveging insects | |
07-05-2005, 10:55 AM | #13 | |
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I just don't think there is any 100% prevention for a tick or a flea to NOT jump up on a pet. You are a good Mommy for examining your fur baby and finding the tick and removing it. Sometimes the best medicine is petting all over your fur baby from head to toe touching to see if anything feels foreign. We also camp and I spend minutes on end massaging Schatzie to see if any nasty bug has decided to land on her. There have been times I've found a tick on her (not imbedded) and killed the little sucker.
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07-05-2005, 11:36 AM | #14 |
YT 6000 Club Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: CA
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| It's so hard to tell if you see "Dirt" especially with Coco because her head is so dark. Her light areas are her grown and her face and legs. But I will definetely make sure to check. I have to give her Advantage today. Should I switch to Frontline?? She's been itching the last couple of days and doing the little teeth biting thing on her legs (like eating corn on cob). I wonder if she has any. I haven't seen or felt anything unusual and I just bathed her on Friday.
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07-05-2005, 11:58 AM | #15 |
Maximus "Lily's Love Slave" Join Date: May 2005 Location: san ramon, ca
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| Don't quote me on this but I don't think that Advnatage protects against ticks???>...am I wrong?....Frontline plus does both so I opted for that because I have started taking Maximus to the park on the weekend and I would have a heart attack...REALLY!!!
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