Ticks on Dogs

What Are Ticks?

Ticks are parasite arthropods that feed on host blood. They may carry a variety of diseases that can affect dogs as well as humans. The best way to keep yourself and your dog safe is to first prevent ticks from attaching to your dog. Ticks feed on blood in humans and other mammals. There are more than 800 different types of ticks, but fortunately, only a few species of ticks carry harmful diseases.

Symptoms of Ticks on Dogs

Symptoms on dogs can sometimes become so prominent that the owner has to take a look and decide what causes the dog to suddenly feel unwell. Ticks can get stuck on your dog's skin and can cause extreme itching. The part of the skin where the ticks were stuck turned red from inflammation.

Some tick bites are so severe that internal infections can also develop. The most common symptoms are loss of appetite, fever, lethargy, pain, and depression. These symptoms begin to develop within twenty-four hours of a tick infection and may persist for several days.

Ticks also spread many blood-borne diseases, that is, the diseases they carry. These ticks are transmitted when ticks stick to your dog for more than ten hours.

Thankfully, there are many symptoms associated with this disease that are easy to detect and treat. Symptoms that appear early in the infection are vomiting, reflux, and instability. As the degree of infection increases, symptoms begin to become more severe. Accelerating heart rhythm (tachycardia) is common. As a consequence, the dog may begin to lose its ability to move muscles.

How to Remove Ticks from My Dog?

To remove ticks safely, you need the following items. You will need pointed tweezers. Pointed tweezers can break a part of the insect and cause you or your pet to get sick, so you also need a towel or paper towel and rubbing alcohol or let soap clean.

Carefully place the forceps as close as possible to the skin. This way, you can get closer to the head of the tick. Take your time, because some ticks may be as small as poppy seeds.

Once the tweezers are in place, pull slowly and steadily. Maintain a steady pressure and try to avoid twisting, you hear a click, as your head may break and get stuck.

After removing the ticks, you need to thoroughly clean the area with alcohol, soap, and water. If you need to stop bleeding, you can use a band-aid or gauze.

How to Prevent Ticks on Dogs

Let's have a look at some tips and tricks to protect your dogs and yourself from ticks.

• Avoid ticks

  When hiking, try to keep the puppies on a trail, avoid rotten leaves and tall grass, and avoid ticks.

• Perform some lawn maintenance

  Having a good yard not only makes your house look more beautiful. Taking care of lawns, bushes, wooded areas, and lush gardens can put nasty ticks in trouble.

• Tick Repellant

  When protecting pets from ticks, the use of repellents is the key to success. Read the labels carefully and you also need to make sure to order the correct dose based on the size of the dog, usually based on their weight. If usual lawn maintenance does not eliminate ticks. In these cases, deworming provide good help.

• Check for ticks

  You must check your dog for lice. Examine the back and inside of the puppy's ears, tail, eyes, and eyelids, under the collar, between the legs, between the legs, and between the toes.