Tick Removal, Prevention and Protection Information
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The UK Tick population seems to increase year after year. Whether this is due to global warming, the soar in deer population, or warmer winters, or whether it's because more of us are out and about with our dogs, would be interesting to find out, and the scientists are working hard to determine what we can do about ticks.
Sometimes, we are just flooded with too much information, and there is certainly plenty of tick removal information on the web. Unfortunately, sometimes, it just becomes too confusing. We are here therefore to keep things simple. There are 2 things we need to consider when thinking about ticks:
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The Tick Twister is the simplest way which we have found to remove a tick, from dogs, pets, or people.
For more information and to purchase Tick Twisters, please go to the shop For more information on tick removal, prevention and protection for cats, dogs, and people, please click on the main menu links. |
| Tick Prevention | Depending on how bad ticks are in your local area, you may want to look into tick prevention...>more on tick prevention for dogs. To prevent ticks on dogs and cats, you may want to look at using one of the various tick prevention treatments. There are many available - how do you choose? The best advice has to be to speak with your vet in the first instance. Then you can be sure of being properly informed to make the right decisions.
But, we humans can't pre-treat ourselves to prevent tick biting. We can dress sensibly, and we can consider our garden layout, or what path we choose on a walk >more Look out for Tick Prevention Week - last week in March....>more |
| Tick Protection | Ticks are very dangerous disease carrying parasites. There are no vaccines available to combat tick diseases in the UK. Protection is the only solution ...more> |
Tick Removal is a new small focussed site run by Pawsability Pet Behaviour.