Baby tick...

random · 06-06-2008, 12:20 PM

Vitaani has a really really small baby tick on her paw. I cannot for the life of me find my tick remover thingy and it's far to small to pull out manually so I either take her to the vet or order another tick remover (which I will have to do anyway now), BUT, what puzzles me is........she is an indoor cat! She doesn't go outside at all only on a harness and even then she hasn't been out for about a week.

All I can think of is she's got it from the dogs somehow. Very odd!

Gaina · 06-06-2008, 12:29 PM

Do you have any surgical spirit? Coat the little blighter in that with a cotton bud and it should be gone in 24 hours (they shrivel and fall off).

The nurse at the vet I used to go to saved me a trip over there and a bill with that little gem of advice and it works perfectly

random · 06-06-2008, 01:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Gaina

Do you have any surgical spirit? Coat the little blighter in that with a cotton bud and it should be gone in 24 hours (they shrivel and fall off).

The nurse at the vet I used to go to saved me a trip over there and a bill with that little gem of advice and it works perfectly

Thank you, I do and will do that. I know you can put Vaseline on them which suffocates them and they drop off but that can also make them regurgitate back into the host so not really that great.

dandysmom · 06-06-2008, 04:55 PM

I was going to suggest the vaseline; did not know about the regurgitation bit...what a useful thing to know! One of my bosses standard poodle had ticks and she found lots of them in the house and had to have an exterminator.....

A chin tickle to Vitaani, please; as you know she's my favorite of your cats....

Kim · 06-06-2008, 07:16 PM

A bit of alcohol works well too and at least the tick will die happy!!!! lol

random · 06-06-2008, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by dandysmom

I was going to suggest the vaseline; did not know about the regurgitation bit...what a useful thing to know! One of my bosses standard poodle had ticks and she found lots of them in the house and had to have an exterminator.....

A chin tickle to Vitaani, please; as you know she's my favorite of your cats....

Thanks Eileen, will do that for you, she's totally clueless that anything was wrong anyway.

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Originally Posted by Kim

A bit of alcohol works well too and at least the tick will die happy!!!! lol

Thanks Kim, that is what I put on it in the end as didn't have any surgical spirit but always have a bit of voddy in!

angieh · 06-06-2008, 08:22 PM

Did the tick hick???

(Sorry!)

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