How to remove a Tick from your Cat or dog
Ticks are treacherous little beasts and can carry diseases that threaten both you and your cat. Here's the safest way to remove one.
Assemble supplies on your kitchen counter: sharp-nosed tweezers, a small jar of alcohol, disinfectant, hydrocortisone spray.
Have a helper hold the cat steady for you.
Using the tweezers, grab the tick at the head part right where it enters the cat's body. Do NOT grab the tick by its body.
Pull steadily and firmly outward, without twisting or jerking.
Place the tick in the jar of alcohol to kill it.
Swab the cat's skin around the bite wound with a disinfectant.
Spray the area with the hydrocortisone spray to help alleviate irritation and itching.
Wash your hands well with soap and water.
Tips:
The old wives tales of using vaseline, alcohol or kerosene to make the tick 'back out' do NOT work. Such actions may even cause the tick to deposit more toxin into the cat's tissues.
Subsequent irritation or swelling are caused by the tick's toxic saliva, not by the head remaining in the wound. Continue the Hydrocortisone spray to help relieve the irritation.
Monitor the cat's general condition for a couple of weeks. If he displays any untoward symptoms other than a welt and/or redness around the wound, that don't go away in a few days, call your veterinarian.
What You Need:
Sharp tweezers
Alcohol in container
Hydrocortisone Spray
Disinfectant
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