Tick Removal

[smudgersmith 2]

Can anyone tell me a method of removing ticks other than Frontline and other off the shelf sprays etc, is there a "Home-Grown" method, a old ferretter I know tells me he uses a dab on whiskey !! Not sure about that.

 

Any ideas.

[Guest jojoamojo]

You can smother vasaline on the ticks butts, they suffocate then drop off the only thing is it will take you ages and it wont sort out the seed ticks, and you will have to keep going at them

 

other than that you can pick the sods off with a tick picker from the vets, its costs about £3 and its 2 green hooks that get the buggers off including their heads, if you leave the heads in the ferret it gets infected

 

hope this helps

[Kay 3,709]

Use either frontline or a tick picker , smothering them shocks the tick to spew the contents back into the ferret & if its infected with Lyme disease then so is your ferret

[Guest ripstop]

Use either frontline or a tick picker , smothering them shocks the tick to spew the contents back into the ferret & if its infected with Lyme disease then so is your ferret

 

 

Frontline regularly, just got one of them O Tom tick removers, money goes to BADA UK, Borreliosis and associated diseases awareness uk. Mine cost just over 4 quid, never had to use them yet, hopefully wont.

[Kay 3,709]

Use either frontline or a tick picker , smothering them shocks the tick to spew the contents back into the ferret & if its infected with Lyme disease then so is your ferret

 

 

Frontline regularly, just got one of them O Tom tick removers, money goes to BADA UK, Borreliosis and associated diseases awareness uk. Mine cost just over 4 quid, never had to use them yet, hopefully wont.

 

Have you a link to the tick picker please the one that goes to wendys charity

[poacher2225 2]

you can git some green thing's of the vet for it i use them on my dog's thay about 2 pound for two of them ther's a big one and a little one do's the job

[jayjay 264]

you can git some green thing's of the vet for it i use them on my dog's thay about 2 pound for two of them ther's a big one and a little one do's the job

 

hello mate my uncle kept and used ferrets for years and his method of tick removal was to smother the ticks in liquid paraffin which u can buy quite cheap from pharmacists and it worked wonders for him.

[poacher2225 2]

some one told me to put a red light on them at night and the tick's run of them like the heat lamp's you git for dog's dont no how true it is but he say's that work's

[Corky(amateur) 0]

i use a hot pair of tweasers. hold gently but firmly onto the tick and pull very gently, it burns the tick which makes it let go with its teeth and you pull it off kicking and sceaming. only use this if your ferrets are steady, so you don't burnm them with the tweasers.

[jacob 28]

smear some vaseline on em,they should just drop off by the next day.

[Kay 3,709]

you shouldnt do anything that makes the tick spew the blood back into the ferret incase its infected use a tick picker

[The one 8,479]

I just grasp them between my thumb and forefinger nails slowly twist clockwork and then check its all come out

[jacob 28]

you shouldnt do anything that makes the tick spew the blood back into the ferret incase its infected use a tick picker

been using the same method for years,never had any problems