[Cirlonde]

I've already had to pull two ticks off Chloe this month, namely because I wasn't aware that Advantage was only for fleas...oops! With both, I put a little dab of Neosporin on the spot (both ticks were on her head so she couldn't reach to lick) and have kept an eye on them. No problems so far. And Chloe has been given the Lymes vaccine because we have a lot of deer in our area.

As a child, I got Lymes and my mom caught it very early because the area around the bite formed what looked distinctively like a bull's eye (red center, pale circle, red outer circle). I'm not sure if the same thing happens with dogs or not though. Also, Lymes comes from deer ticks which have a white dot on their backs, so if the tick didn't have the dot you won't have to be concerned about that particular problem.
-C