My vet said that even if you get it out alive that some mouth parts are usually still stuck in there, but the body will ultimately expel them. Maggie had one that the vet said looked like a dog tick. She had a red area around it and the vet thought it looked a little infected so gave me amoxil for her. I think it was red from me trying to get it (because it's hard not to get hair too!), but i gave her the meds anyway. I thought it was a big deer tick but he said it wasn't. I don't know how big the full grown deer ticks are, I know some of them are supposed to be like a pencil point (deer ticks carry lyme). |