Determine if Your Dog has Ticks

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Hi this is Elise McMahon with expertvillage.com and this video series we are going to talking about flea and tick prevention. If you like to find more about my services you can visit my website canineheadstart.com. So in this short clip we are going to be talking about how do you determine whether your dog has tick or not. How could you tell? Can you tell by looking at the dog? This is a good example this dog is a good example for a hard dog to find ticks on. If you have a short coated breed if you have something like a Saluki, Vizsla, a short coated is going to be easier to see cause you can actually sometimes see the hair poking up. If you got a thick coated breed a German Shepherd, Huskie, or a long coated breed like a Breayard for example is much more difficult to find ticks on your dog. Really the only way to do it to determine if your dog has ticks or not is to look. So usually what I would do with a dog if I just came back from a walk from the wood and the dogs does not have any tick preventing medicine on him I would start of with a muzzle and using your fingers just to feel down underneath the hair. Once you have the muzzle done you can go right along the top of the head, back to the ears, and sometime ticks would come up to the ears, you can feel around the ear base, back of the ears, along the neck. What you are doing here is you just running your fingers down close to the skin as you can to see if you feel any bumps. You can sometimes look in between the toes some dogs would get ticks in between there toes. See if he has any there and along on the rest of the body. You can look and check for ticks on the belly area. This are obviously have any here it would be easy to see then if there are in his coated part. You continue doing that all down the body. Of course what we are depending on here is that the ticks that we might be feeling are of a descent size that might mean that they are already blotted with a blood meal. Something like a deer tick if you remember how small the deer ticks were the pictures that we showed you of them were unlikely to find deer ticks using this method. Some people who don't like to put the topical toxin on there dogs like to just examine there dog ever time they come back from there walk in the woods. Problem with that method is that the very very small ticks you are actually not going to be able to find so if you are living in a area were deer ticks are prevalent and Lyme diseases is a common problem in people and dogs you really might want to consider one of the topical preventives.

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