Pet Tips Ticks & Lyme Disease Ticks are nasty little creatures that love to live in brushy wooded areas and in high grass. Let’s look at ways to avoid ticks and when necessary, how to safely remove ticks. Common sense says to get ticks away from the house by removing thick vegetation and rotten wood nearby – it works! Now for the pet that likes to go to tick-infested places, the easy answer is to apply a topical flea preventative that also prevents ticks. If you do all this and still find a tick on the pet, I recommend spraying the tick with a safe flea/tick product and let the tick die and fall off. If you are one of those that have to pull a tick, please use tweezers or wear gloves. People can get diseases carried by ticks from compressing too hard with their fingers on a tick. Lyme Disease for both humans and dogs is usually contracted from the deer tick. If you are taking your pet into an area known for ticks, apply a flea/tick preventative product on your pet several days before entering this area. Never pull a tick off an animal because the tick could expose you to Lyme Disease; instead, spray ticks on a pet with an insecticide that is safe for the pet.
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