Annually together with the first beams of the tender spring sun the great number of ticks gets out to a last year's grass and branches of bushes. Unfortunately, they become more and more every year as also the number of injured people from them steadily increases. Ticks attack any warm-blooded mammals, but especially often they attack dogs. How pincers on a dog look and what to undertake if you found them on a body of the pet?
Instruction
1. Daily examine an animal in due time to find a tick and to destroy him. Best of all do it after each walk with a dog, ixodic pincers bite an animal not at once, and throughout some time creep on its wool and skin before sticking into it. Carefully feel a body of the dog, special attention paying her to the head, ears and a neck. Do it in thin latex gloves – can be dangerous to touch a tick barehanded. Pincers move very quickly therefore do not delay with survey of the pet.
2. If you felt finger-tips something, similar to small small pea, then with high degree of probability it can appear a tick. He the small size, has a flat body and four pairs of legs; the body of a tick is painted in dark brown, black or reddish color. In due time found insect needs to be destroyed at once until it managed to bite nobody. It is the best of all to burn it, the tick simply will not manage to be crushed a leg is extremely hardy creation.
3. Having felt fingers on skin of a dog a large foreign matter, know - the tick already stuck into skin of an animal and managed to get drunk blood. At the same time it increases in a size and can have one-two centimeters a diameter. The parasite changes the color to dirty-gray or pinkish and looks more than is repellent. The insect needs to be removed from your pet urgently. For this purpose lay a dog and ask someone from the family or relatives to record her in this situation. Take tweezers or strong thread and disinfect this adaptation by means of alcohol. Capture a tick by means of tweezers or thread as it is possible closer to the surface of skin and begin to take him from a wound rotary motions. After you completely took out a tick, it is the best of all to send him to the analysis to laboratory, and to show a dog to the veterinarian who will appoint the necessary preventive and all-strengthening therapy. Process the wound which remained after a sting of a tick an anti-septic tank.