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All those hints to get it to let go like applying a blown out match to it's rear end or dabbing it with alcohol or lemon juice or nail polish remover don't really work. Just grab hold tight and pull. Sure, you might still have the front segment left it but it's not a big deal. In a short time, it dried up and out it comes. It's already done it's damage. It doesn't get worse becasue it's still in there. We sued to live in tick hell in California and we and the horses and dgos and cats would get them and never had a problem with just gripping, twisting and out it comes, the sooner you get to it, the better chance for it to come out whole, though if you wait a loooonng time it will just fall out of it's own accord. Rarely did a piece stay in and even if it did, no big deal. The cats seemed very sensitive to the ticks and the area might be a little red but that's all. The worse one I ever had had been in there awhile. It was under my breast. It did turn red and swelled for 2 days and then nothing but a hole.
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I find that pointy tipped tweezers help get a hold of the tick. If it is full of blood and you grab it you can squeeze stuff from the tick back into the host. If you gently grab the tick just above the skin with the tweezers and lift away it usually comes right out.
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I've always been told that if you cover the tick and about a 1 inch circle around it with vaseline, that it will fall out. I don't know if that's true, because it wasn't fast enough for me. If the tick is not full of blood, it's much easier, but, get a pair of tweezers and grab as close to the skin as possible, (even pushing down into the wound a little if possible). Get a firm hold and pull out slowly. Immediately cover area with antibiotic ointment, just as a precaution against infection. I've always heard not to leave the head in, (the body of the tick does separate very easily), that it could get infected. But, I've had many ticks on me in my life, (48 yrs.), and never an infection or complication from a tick bite. But, I do use the antibiotic ointment.
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Somehow we discovered that if we sprayed the ticks on people or dogs with cologne - they'd fall off rather quickly. I did that on my horse's neck the other day and some fell off right away, others the next day. Now I'm looking for a solution to how to remove them from the "private parts" as I surely wouldn't spray cologne there and have it burn. There are so many, in such a sensitive area - it would be inpossible to pull them all out by hand. Any ideas?
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never pull them out, instead put nail polish on there back or pour hot water on it
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Just don't do what this guy did... http://digitaldiatribes.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/how-not-to-remove-a-wood-tick/
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