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Originally Posted by barb1191
Easy Tick Removal
Spring is here and the ticks will soon be showing their heads. Here is a good way to get them off you, your children, or your pets. Give it a try.
Apply a glob of liquid soap to a cotton ball. Cover the tick with the soap-soaked cotton ball and swab it for a few seconds (15-20), the tick will come out on its own and be stuck to the cotton ball when you lift it away.
This technique has worked every time and it's much less traumatic for the patient, unless allergic to soap.
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This one has been going around for awhile. I tried it and it did absolutely nothing. Another similar tip, which also didn't work was to coat the tick with petroleum jelly. I had to get the tweezers out and remove the tick the old fashioned way.
Later I found an effective tick removal tool at a pet store. It's a little plastic gizmo which slides along the dogs skin and sort of scoops up the tick. It's difficult to get through the fur to the tick but the little critter comes right out without damage.