Ticks on Dogs

Ticks - how to act, how to remove them from your dog's skin and which product to use. Find out all you need to know about ticks and how they affect your dog.

Once you read this information you will know:

• The essential thing about ticks about your dog.
• How to remove a tick from your skin.
• What is the best treatment of ticks for dogs.

In spring, with the heat of summer, also aparacen ticks. In order to reproduce, the female needs blood and your dog is a favorite for her hosts.

The wait for our dog ticks in areas with a lot of vegetation, such as in tall grass on roadsides, in gardens, walls, parks, or undeveloped land. So easy that your dog is with ticks when you go for a walk with him.



Some technical data on ticks

• The most common species in Spain are: Rhipicephalus sanguineus, Ixodes ricinus, Ixodes and Dermacentor reticulatus hexagonus.
• They measure between 0.35 and 1.5 centimeters
• An adult female lays eggs between 2,000 and 4,000.
• These eggs can survive up to three years in the environment.
• When young have six legs, but once adults they grow two feet.
• Ticks hide up in trees waiting for a dog to jump him then.
• They are very active and abundant in spring and summer, but they know to survive the low winter temperatures

In Spain ticks are active from February to October.

When a dog approaches a tick will jump above our friend and walk through your coat up to his favorite place, usually:

• The area of ​​the ears,
• Between the toes,
• Near the eyes, neck and neck

On these sites it is where your skin is thinner and more sanguínio irrigation.

If you have not treated your dog with an antiparasitic product it is normal to find ticks. Do not worry, it has nothing to do with the health of your dog. A simple walk is enough to make your dog for ticks. No dog in Spain it is free of these bugs.

However, it is likely that do not detect the tick if you do not want. Their evolutionary success is to go unnoticed. When your dog bite, this does not know, because before entering his mouth, like a stiletto, the tick deposited a small amount of saliva with anesthetic properties. When your dog bites will not cause you any pain.

Although their bite is painless, it does produce damage.

Those are the ways in which the tick causes an injury to the host:

• Lesions by the action of their mouthparts into the skin,
• Toxic effects since the tick saliva contains enzymes and neurotoxins that can cause paralysis,
• Cause weakness and anemia by consuming large amounts of blood,
• Transmission of other diseases.

Have you found a tick and want to know how to remove it?

First, start the tick rennet is contraindicated. All we do is to remove part of the body and the rest is still attached to the dog and can cause infections.

Ideally, apply a few drops of Vaseline or paraffin around, rub a while until softened a little skin and then try to remove it gently. Then we can get rid of the tick putting it in alcohol so the eggs do not escape and kill her. It is important to wash hands after handling.

There are also special tools for removal of the parasite, such as tweezers ticks, which can be purchased at specialty stores.

What are the best products for ticks?

There are several products on the market that work well. Consult your veterinarian.