First find your tick !
Its the tick season again.
They are generally found on either the head or short body hair of a spaniel.Pay particular attention to the areas around the eyes and the top of the head.
Get a clear plastic or glass container for disposing the tick later.
Using two fingers , stretch the skin around the tick until it is fairly tight.While holding that sking tight, ,Grasp the BODY of the tick between the other hand using two fingers.Hold the tick body gently - it will feel like flesh. Slowly rotate the body of the tick anti-clockwise and pull upwards at the same time.
Drop the tick into the container. Take it for a walk outdoors and BURN it ! Do not tread on it or it will lay eggs and you will be infested with the little devils.
Smear SAVLON or a similar antiseptic Cream over the area where the tick has bitten.
Check for other ticks.
Job done ! Hurrah !!
Try to keep your spaniel out of long wet grass . ticks love it ...
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Spaniels Ticks and Fleas
How to Control Fleas and Ticks with Frontline
No matter how carefully you groom your spaniel, sooner or later he or she is going to get fleas or ticks. Fleas spread either from other dogs or cats or from carpets (even if they are not your carpets... remember fleas can JUMP !)
Ticks are usually found in long grass or on trees and get onto your pet by dropping onto the animal and scampering on to an exposed area of skin.
The first time I found my puppies had Ticks was when I found a tiny tick crawling across the back of my neck !
I soon found a few more attacking my little spaniels.
For years I tried many sprays and powders and I discovered FRONTLINE - a liquid spray that you lightly spray on to the dog (avoiding the eyes and mouth and ears though)
This comes either in a larger dispenser or in sealed blister packs each of a single dose. Do Not overdose - read the instructions first.
To use the blister packs is simplicity itself.
You simple break off a small corner of the pack ,part the dogs fur just at the nape of the neck (there is an illustration that shows where to squeeze the green liguid onto.
Its fairly important to keep your pets separate to prevent them from licking the fluid off each other.
I found my spaniels went a bit dozy for a couple of hours after the application but they soon cheered up after that.
You only have to make one application per dog and this seems to be active for the whole of the tick season.
We seem to have had a huge increase in ticks this year and I think this is due to climate change.
Frontline seems to kill fleas outright and acts as a systemic cure that discourages ticks and other bugs.
Tiny Ticks just curl up and die and bigger ones (I have not seen one since applyig Frontline) are alleged to be easier to remove.
Ticks just fall off when spray with Frontline and you should collect them on a piece of card or in a plastic container and dispose of them. I tend to kill them to prevent their return.
The really unpleasant thing about ticks is that they have a sort of beak that digs into the dogs skin and if you try to pull them off the head can get lodged under the skin causing a nasty infection.
I thoroughly recommend Frontline to you -it's available from your Vet or by mail order I thoroughly reccommend the new version where you just put one drop on your pet's skin and this is sufficient to protect him or her from fleas and ticks for quite a long while.)
It certainly beats twisting off those nasty little (and sometimes not so litle) ticks !
Ticks can spread diseases including Lyme Disease so always spread an antiseptic cream on the area where a tick has bitten your dog.
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