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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. |
2 Attachment(s) 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 |
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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. |
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. |
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But it wasn't a scab. It was def underneath the outer layers of skin. It was several layers down. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. :) |
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. |
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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? |
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 |
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? :) |
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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? Quote:
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