Owners of dogs constantly face a problem of pincers and know how to fight with them. But those at whom the canine friend appeared for the first time not always can notice in time the stuck parasite, and the sting of a tick for a dog can end with a lethal outcome. Therefore those who got a puppy have to know everything about pincers.
How to find a tick on a dog?
Especially active pincers become from April to July and from September to November. During a strong heat they are less active, and in a frost they are absent too. But it is possible to pick up this parasite at all seasons of the year when stem of thermometer rises above zero.
After each walk it is necessary to examine hair of a dog carefully. And it is necessary to do it not once, and with some interval. If at an animal dense wool of a dark color, then it is difficult to find in it a tick. Combing against wool a dense crest can help.
Having got on a dog, the tick can not stick within several hours, and look for the suitable place. During its movement it is also possible to notice. Ticks choose for a place sting with the thinnest skin. Therefore most often they stick into a skull base, ears, paws, a stomach. The tick has the size to 0.5 cm, it has 8 pads, a little head, on a back a guard. Color of a tick usually brown or black. Young individuals can be light brown. Having caught a tick, it needs to be destroyed. The tick who already stuck looks as the inflated pea of a gray, lurid or pink shade.
What to do if the tick stuck?
Terribly not that the tick sucks blood of a dog, and the fact that he is the carrier of many dangerous infectious diseases and can infect a dog. But not each tick is infectious, and even the infected parasite not necessarily will award an animal with a disease. The he will spend less time on an animal, the it is less than chances of infection. Therefore the tick needs to be removed right after found. If there is an opportunity to immediately bring a dog to veterinary clinic, then there experts will take care of everything. But you also can pull out a parasite. The main thing to do it it is quiet also without panic. It is not necessary to try to get it hands, to pull. You can tear off a trunk, and the head will remain under skin, and there will be an inflammatory process. It is necessary to delete a tick with tweezers or the special device for removal of pincers - a tic a twister. The tick needs to be recorded, but not to crush and extend, turning on or counterclockwise. The place of a sting is necessary prizhech iodine. After extraction of a tick it is necessary to watch a dog. The parasite could infect an animal with a piroplasmosis which symptoms can appear for the 10th day, and even later. It is desirable to take daily during this period to a dog temperature. If it rose higher than 39, it is necessary to seem to the veterinarian, surely having told that the dog was bitten by a tick.
How to protect a dog from pincers?
Unfortunately, there are no 100% of protection against this parasite. But it is necessary to process an animal nevertheless regularly. It is better if it is complex protection. For example, drops on withers of times a month, spray on wool once a week and a special collar which has protective function within 6 months. It is desirable that these means of protection were on the basis of different active ingredients. Remember that whatever expensive the security measure on a dog was, it can not stop a tick. Therefore survey of wool of the favourite after each walk is obligatory!