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Is this a tick on Uni?!! 1 Attachment(s) I tried the cotton ball trick and nothing happened. May have to run to the vet before the holiday! :eek::eek: Attachment 386721 |
It could be a tick but it also could just be a mole |
It's hard to say, do you have a magnifiying glass? The thing that concerns me is it looks like a circle is forming around the spot, which can be serious. Here's what it says on removing a tick. How to remove a tick: 1. Use fine-tipped tweezers and protect your fingers with a tissue, paper towel, or latex gloves. Avoid removing ticks with your bare hands. 2. Grasp the tick as close to the skin surface as possible and pull upward with steady, even pressure. Don't twist or jerk the tick; this can cause the mouth-parts to break off and remain in the skin. If this happens, remove the mouth-parts with tweezers. If you are unable to remove the mouth easily with clean tweezers, leave it alone and let the skin heal. 3. After removing the tick, thoroughly disinfect the bite and your hands with rubbing alcohol, an iodine scrub, or soap and water. If you do it slow and steady, you don't risk the harm of pulling off mole. |
What is harmful about the circle forming around it? And there isn't any place big enough to get tweezers on. |
I can't tell...looks embedded if it is... I'd go to the vet as she'll probably need antibiotics as it also looks swollen. |
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You could even email the picture to his office. |
My vet's office is so busy and I haven't been there in a while, I doubt they'd remember me unless I went in. My fosters' vet knows me, but he's appt only and I doubt I'd be able to get in today before the holiday weekend. My regular vet is walk in only so I"m going to go after lunch. I've been looking at pics online and they all seem to have the legs out. I don't see anylegs, but I def can feel a big bump under the skin. She also has two other small bumps between her shoulder blades but those have been there for forever. Same with she had this bump on her elbow for a long time, looked the same. We went into the vet to get something else checked out and I just asked them to look at it. Just when I go to show them, it had ballooned up and the vet pulled it out. But it had been there for months before and never ballooned up. |
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Yeah, ticks will balloon out after a feeding, you don't always see them after a feeding. I'm not sure how that works or how often they feed. I couldn't see any legs on the tick I had seen, until I put the nail polish oh it. It took a few minutes and the legs came out. After I pulled it out, I could see a tiny bit of blood. |
Yes a tick will have its legs out and you would be able to move the body around. I always take tweezers and get them out. BUT that redness concerns me. Ive never seen that. Please let us know what the vet says. |
If you decide to use tweezers, be sure you get the head out. Otherwise, your baby could get infected. I'm still stumped about that redness though... |
I agree, if it is a tick, you should be able to see little legs. They can make nasty welts like that. Hope all goes well at the vet. Update as soon as you can. |
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!! |
I hope it's nothing serious and if it's a tick it's easily removable. Best wishes for UNI! |
Kaji's mom told me when he had one there wasn't any legs. either so I'm concerned. We're waiting in the room already. |
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. |
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