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Britster 05-24-2013 01:55 PM
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It doesn't really look like a tick to me..... looks more like a scab.

Ticks look more like this.
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Or this when it's REALLY big *pukes*
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mimimomo 05-24-2013 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Britster (Post 4223121)
It doesn't really look like a tick to me..... looks more like a scab.

Ticks look more like this.
Attachment 386724

Or this when it's REALLY big *pukes*
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Waaaaa!:eek::eek::eek: Why did I look lolll!

capt_noonie 05-24-2013 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Britster (Post 4223121)
It doesn't really look like a tick to me..... looks more like a scab.

Ticks look more like this.
Attachment 386724

Or this when it's REALLY big *pukes*
Attachment 386725
LOL Yeah I know that NOW, after I googled ticks on dogs. Some of those poor things had their ears FULL of ticks, fully engorged ticks. So gross and so sad.

capt_noonie 05-24-2013 02:34 PM
It wasn't a tick! So what was it?!
 
Well the vet doesn't know. He tried to get it with tweezers, unsuccessful. So he went in there with a lance. He was so surprised Uni just stood there, well she was shaking, but just stood there. He said she was the world's best dog! Well he got it out and it was a weird big growth, about 1/8"x3/16" big! :eek: He put it under the microscope and it wasn't an insect, no head, no legs. So we decided to get it biopsied just to be safe, and sent us home with some ointment. So, $190+ dollars later, here we are! So we will find out on Tues, since the holiday coming up.

She also has a tiny one between her shoulders that's been there forever, so depending on what the results come back as, we will know what to do with that other one.

Thank god it wasn't a nasty tick! But hoping it's nothing serious. That thing was big and left a big crater in her skin. Like after you pop a gigantic pimple.

msyorktown 05-24-2013 02:35 PM
Yuck!!! Thankfully we don't have those where I am....however my neighbor was out in Harrow last week, with her pup....showed me this bump that she says just got bigger over the last few days. It looked just like that second pic....I told her at the time, it looked like a tick....dang lucky guess, since until now I had no idea what a tick looked like! :eek:

Let us know what the vet says please....praying its nothing serious.

capt_noonie 05-24-2013 02:38 PM
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Originally Posted by lovespandp (Post 4223068)
Aw man.. what the heck I never seen a tick around my parts. Were you guys out in the hills or something?

Hopefully whatever it is on poor Uni it is an easy fix and she is back to normal soon!!
Yes, and here either, I haven't seen many ticks. It's pretty dry here, just like where you are. We were at the park a few days ago though, but just grass, no hiking or anything. But vet said it's not a tick. We have to wait and see for the biopsy results.

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Originally Posted by mimimomo (Post 4223110)
It doesn't look like a tick...you'll def see lots of legs & it isn't as hard to detect unlike fleas. Does Uni go under the bed or under somewhere & possibly could've scratched her back? Turbo had a scar & a scab on his back from trying to squeeze under by bed. My bed is a really low platform style & he can barely fit in there...hope Uni will be ok.
Yes Uni does crawl under the furniture when her ball rolls under there. She has been recently crawling behind randon stuff too when her toys aren't even there. I caught her behind one of the shelving units at the shop yesterday. She had to army crawl underneath the entire length (the long edge) of a bike in a box to get back there; but for what I have no idea.
But it wasn't a scab. It was def underneath the outer layers of skin. It was several layers down.

Maximo 05-24-2013 02:50 PM
Poor Uni. She is such a good girl enduring the lance. I'm sure it will be nothing, but I'm glad you are having it biopsied.

capt_noonie 05-24-2013 03:10 PM
Now that I know this isn't a tick, and last time wasn't either, has anyone on here had FIRST HAND experience and success with using the dish soap method of getting out the tick? I read on the CDC site that that is just an old wives tale and doesn't work.

EarthAngel 05-24-2013 03:54 PM
First, I want to say I am hoping all turns out ok with Uni's biopsy. As far as getting a tick off a dog I have always just used tweezers near the skin and would wiggle the tweezer back and forth until the tick would release. I have heard about the dish detergent but have never tried it. Please keep us updated on how Uni is doing.

MomtoJasper 05-24-2013 04:22 PM
Poor Uni. I'm glad it wasn't a tick so you don't have to worry about Lyme Disease. But I'll be praying about the biopsy. Please do update when you know.

Oh and the soap doesn't. :)

kjc 05-24-2013 04:42 PM
We used to put a dab of Vaseline on the head trying to suffocate it. Every time I did that it just pissed the tick off and made him try to dig in further.

capt_noonie 05-24-2013 04:47 PM
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Originally Posted by kjc (Post 4223232)
We used to put a dab of Vaseline on the head trying to suffocate it. Every time I did that it just pissed the tick off and made him try to dig in further.
That is what the CDC site and Snopes says. Does the pissed off tick go in so far that you can't see his legs anymore?

The thing that was on Uni's elbow a while back, now I'm wondering if it was a tick. It was under her skin for months, and I thought it was a blackhead, kept putting coconut oil on it. Maybe I pissed off the tick? When we went to the vet it came out like a little balloon. How long can a tick stay in there for and not get big?

Carmeow 05-24-2013 07:17 PM
Oh no! Praying for Uni's results on Tuesday to be benign and just some kind of fluke!! Glad it wasn't a tick though. What a trooper just standing there! She's a good girlie! Posting on here so I def get the update. xoxo

MomtoJasper 05-24-2013 07:23 PM
I did a Google search and they don't embed in the skin and they stay on a few days. Which makes me cringe! But at least they don't embed.

We live in Tennessee about 35 miles north of Memphis. We are out in the country and about 4 acres of our 5 is wooded. So....we have ticks. We treat our front yard (where the dogs, except Jasper, go) in Spring and mid-Summer. We also treat our pets and are always checking them. Our shepherd will come in with one on her once or twice a year.I HATE pulling those things off...they are just gross to touch. But we all would anything for our babies welfare wouldn't we? :)

capt_noonie 05-24-2013 09:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Carmeow (Post 4223384)
Oh no! Praying for Uni's results on Tuesday to be benign and just some kind of fluke!! Glad it wasn't a tick though. What a trooper just standing there! She's a good girlie! Posting on here so I def get the update. xoxo
If it comes back benign, then this will be Uni's THIRD biopsy that's come back benign, and I'm pretty sure after that my vet will be like, stop getting all her bumps biopsied. Well I hope anyway. But this thing was gross. It wasn't like the last one that got biopsied on her foot. That one was filled with fluid. The first one was on her head and they had done while she was getting spayed, so I never saw what was in that one.

I think she was so good bc I was fussing over it all morning, and once we got there and I was showing the girl at the front desk she knew; so once the doc came in, she just stood there.

BTW, I don't think I"ve told you, I LOVE your avatar! When did you change it? Have I just not been paying attention?

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Originally Posted by MomtoJasper (Post 4223389)
I did a Google search and they don't embed in the skin and they stay on a few days. Which makes me cringe! But at least they don't embed.

We live in Tennessee about 35 miles north of Memphis. We are out in the country and about 4 acres of our 5 is wooded. So....we have ticks. We treat our front yard (where the dogs, except Jasper, go) in Spring and mid-Summer. We also treat our pets and are always checking them. Our shepherd will come in with one on her once or twice a year.I HATE pulling those things off...they are just gross to touch. But we all would anything for our babies welfare wouldn't we? :)
What do you use to pull them off? Just tweezers or do you use one of those tick thingys?


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