Reddit mentions: The best cat tick remover tools

On the swimming note: life vests are good for safety but also good for building your dog's confidence while he learns to swim. Highly recommended.

One tip on the water bowl: don't get a brand new collapsible bowl right before the trip. They smell funny new and a lot of dogs refuse to drink out of them, resulting in dehydration or drinking unsafe puddles. If you do get a lightweight packable bowl, the silicone ones work well because they don't have a smell. Otherwise pack your dog's dish from home. If you're car camping, bring a couple of extra gallons of water just in case.

Bring a short leash for walking in heavy-traffic areas. Also bring a longer tie-out line for the campsite. Even if pup normally sticks close and pays attention, the distractions in the woods/beach may cause him to run off. When in doubt, use a leash.

Make sure he's comfortable sleeping in your tent/camper. Spend some time in there with him before your trip, so he's already familiar with it.

Make sure he's got up-to-date id tags with your cell # on his collar. If he has ever slipped out of his collar, attach your leash to a harness or a second collar so he'll still have id even if he gets loose.

Bring an extra towel! Good for drying muddy paws, protecting car seats, or laying down as a makeshift resting spot.

Before you go, make sure he's used to being touched and handled, so you can check for ticks every day. comb his fur, look inside his ears, check between his toes, that sort of thing. Pack one of these gadgets with your dog gear. If ticks are bad in your area, ask your vet about preventatives and start them well in advance (just in case there are side effects, so it doesn't ruin your trip).

Pack extra food. He'll burn more calories than usual and want to eat extra.

Pack high value treats. If he voluntarily checks in with you without being told to, occasionally reward that with a treat. Over time he'll learn to check in with you frequently and stay near you, reducing the risk that he'll run off the moment you get distracted.

If you're hiking, try to pass other people without letting him run up to them. The more practice he gets passing people without automatically saying hello, the better he'll be as he gets older about walking past without harassing other hikers. If he's off leash, put him back on leash before you pass people/dogs so he can't run right up to them without your permission.

I treat all of my outdoors clothes, tarps and tents with Permethrin. Very effective.

Do yourself a favor and buy a 3 pack of these tick removal spoons: https://www.amazon.com/Original-Ticked-Off-Remover-family/dp/B00CAQ7C8K

I kept one in my car's glovebox and one on my keychain. I had a bloodhound that loved nothing more than wandering off trail to follow his nose, and found plenty of ticks on him and me over the years. Those spoons made removing them super easy.

I do a lot of camping/with my pups.

Depending on what area you're in / if your pups are on anything for ticks, you should probably being a tick remover - something simple like this. If your dog does get a tick, KEEP THE TICK so you can get it tested for Lyme .. (this only really applies if the tick is attached to the dog for 24h+, so make sure to keep checking your dog for ticks).

For hydration, get a collapsible water bowl or a Guply - they make keeping your dog hyrdated super easy.

Depending on weather, you may want to get a sleeping bag for your dog. Ruffwear makes dog sleeping bags, but I'm cheap so I just bought a cheap kids sleeping bag which works fine for my dogs.

Lastly, I had a dog growing up who would get carsick. We just gave him gravol and he was fine (I'm not sure of the dosage, maybe someone else can help me out here).

Almost definitely a tick! At the pet aisle of my local grocery store, they sell this tiny little green... thing to quickly and easily remove them. My cat is so patient when we use it, it takes maybe half a second, and it was pretty cheap! Here's a link to it on amazon.

This is coming from a dog groomer. Spend a few bucks and get a tick spoon. It's one of the easiest little tools to use. While you can get them off with tweezers or hemostats, I've found tick spoons to be the quickest and easiest thing to get used to.

As far as the head, it's most likely not still inside your chest. The human body rejects the head and will push it out on its own. Granted, the head being inside can cause infection and all sorts of fun things like that.

Plenty of people have fences, especially with dogs that like to be outdoors.

The ticks are unavoidable if you go in grass more than a couple inches tall, especially when the grass is wet. The few dozen deer passing through your yard won't make much of a difference.

Definitely consider treating your dog with Bravecto, the ticks die as they latch on to the dog, thus keeping your dog from getting lyme, and from bringing live ticks in the house.

Buy some tick pullers, you will need them. Be sure to check your dog daily. Most ticks hang out behind the ears and back of the neck. It will be like a bonus head scratch for the dog every day.

I hear this is a pretty good way to safely remove ticks if you find one on you or your pet. Might be worth the $14 investment.

https://www.amazon.ca/Tick-Twister-Remover-Small-Large/dp/B00X7072HY

So far this year I have removed over seven ticks form my dogs. This year above all seems to be a bad one. No that there are no more pesticides being used they will only increase in numbers. I'm not an advocate for pesticides before anyone starts tearing me a new one. Only explaining why they are getting worse every year. They have no predators here to eat them so they can live and grow freely.

The best for this is prevention and having the right tools.

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Here is the best tool for removing them. Slide it on and twist, the head and everything will come off with no hassle. I took one of my daughter and my dogs and no pain at all. Best tool for this buy far. If you stuck and have no tool. Take a credit card and cut a small Y in the card. The head will slide into the card and then you can twist. I have had mixed results as sometimes the head stayed inside.

https://www.amazon.ca/Tick-Twister-Remover-Small-Large/dp/B00X7072HY/ref=sr_1_2?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI_ujX1Y6v4gIVFIzICh1tDgzxEAAYASAAEgJNbPD_BwE&hvadid=267132897033&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9060801&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=e&hvrand=11804516318596722537&hvtargid=kwd-300294708453&hydadcr=11454_10116631&keywords=tick+removal+tools&qid=1558527313&s=gateway&sr=8-2

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For prevention this is the best stuff on the market. It kill's 99 to 100% of the ticks that bite.

https://www.fruugo.ca/frontline-plus-for-small-dogs-210kg-under-22lbs-6-pack/p-17197463-37528682?language=en&ac=google&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIgqX-65av4gIVx4-zCh027gXdEAQYBCABEgJp5fD_BwE

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How to identify ticks.

https://canlyme.com/lyme-basics/tick-id/

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One last thing, when you remove a tick always put it in a bag and freeze it. This way if anyone gets sick after a few days or weeks you can have it tested and see if it's positive for lime disease. I keep mine for a few months then toss them in the toilet.

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Hope this helps.

I suggest that you get something like a tick key or spoon so next time you don't have to worry!

There are better/easier tools for tick removal! I prefer a tick spoon. It might help if she's really turned off to tweezers and you can work on slow conditioning to a new tool.

I prefer the spoon thingies for tick removal: https://www.amazon.com/Original-Ticked-Off-Remover-family/dp/B00CAQ7C8K

They make it a lot easier to get the tick head, compared to tweezers.

This one has always worked really well for us.

They make these really nice tick scooper things now that grip the head and make sure it all comes out. Tweezers can leave little bits (or even big bits) stuck in which can get infected. No such problem with these scoops. We use them at the summer camp I work and and they’re wonderful.

Something like this (not an affiliate link): https://www.amazon.com/Original-Ticked-Off-Remover-family/dp/B00CAQ7C8K

Might as well get some tick removers...

not that this is relevant, but I'm in charge of tick removal around here (there's a tick gang problem around here). having tried all tick removal tools (and a tiny wall), this is the most effective so far https://www.amazon.com/Original-Ticked-Off-Remover-family/dp/B00CAQ7C8K/ref=pd_sim_199_2?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00CAQ7C8K&pd_rd_r=2JNHNBDGJX2W05QMJAWT&pd_rd_w=lRr4x&pd_rd_wg=kKBsi&psc=1&refRID=2JNHNBDGJX2W05QMJAWT

You may want to invest in a tick remover if you plan on doing any more exploring. http://smile.amazon.com/Tick-Twister-Remover-Small-Large/dp/B00X7072HY/ref=sr_1_4?s=pet-supplies&ie=UTF8&qid=1465071436&sr=1-4&keywords=tick+remover

it's part of my hiking and biking bag.

https://www.amazon.com/Tick-Twister-Remover-Small-Large/dp/B00X7072HY/ref=sr_1_3?s=pet-supplies&ie=UTF8&qid=1495481415&sr=1-3&keywords=tick+remover

Not venomous lol. They all carry disease here though. They have to be in you for a looong time to transmit it though.
If you leave the head in, it will get infected. You gotta get one of these neat mofos

Na, we have 4 small ones and 2 farm dogs. People abandon their pets around here, and if the single no-kill shelter is full and I can't find anybody to adopt them they usually end up staying with me... Nothing but kill shelters out here. I recently tried the tick twister and it works. However the dogs usually don't hold still long enough for the tick to remain between the two teeth while I spin it, so they end up slipping off and usually squeeze the tick in the process. I switched back to the tweezers after that. Just normal ones, nothing fancy.

I've always been curious about the diseases but we don't have many deer on our property. Maybe 1 or 2 a month. Are there tests for all the diseases? The house we just bought has a lot of woods and debris. We've started cleaning up most of the debris and cutting down the tall grass. However, we are still going to lay down poison this year as its really bad.

We use the Seresto Collar good for 8 months. They bite the dog but die the next day, within 24 hrs. Basically does not repel but does kill. We got ours from our vet so they could watch to see if the dog developed an allergic reaction (which she didn't). Also buy this tick remover so much easier than pliers/tweezers

Tweezers leave a risk of pulling the bastard in two, exposing you to all of the shitty illnesses and co-infections that they spread (not just Lyme and the meat allergy one, but babesia, bartonella, ehrlichiosis, etc. - these can be much worse than Lyme, even deadly).

The absolute BEST way to remove a tick is a tick removal tool, it pulls them off in one piece, then you can burn the fucker:
https://www.amazon.com/Tick-Key-Removal-USA/dp/B06XSGSK7P/ref=asc_df_B06XSGSK7P/

Then if you feel sick AT ALL over the next week, immediately rush to your doctor and insist on 4-6 weeks of doxycycline, NOT the standard two weeks worth (which can be ineffective). Lyme and it's co-infections lead to years of torture and a lifetime of medical problems, it's not something to fuck around with.