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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Could anyone advise please? Is this a skin tag or a tic?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Sure don't look like a skin tag, so more likely a tick.

Never had to deal with a tick, but I was in the scouts and did a lot of outdoor activities and tick removal is one of those things they cover a lot. Use an oil or petroleum jelly to smother it and it should release and back out on its own. The other method widely taught when I was a kid was to light a match, blow it out and then use the still hot end to coax the fucker out; but I'm pretty sure that's discouraged these days.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

lol, my dog had one of those. I also thought it was a skin tag, at first. I live in a place where there aren’t a lot of ticks; we had adopted her from another part of the country. One day, the sucker was suddenly like 3 times the size, so I took a closer look. I had been giving that little bastard pets the whole time.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Tick. My dog had this on his lips once and without thinking I thought it was a rice grain and pulled it off. It infected his lip.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

99% tick.

Cover it in olive oil, ticks breath through their "skin" and oil blocks the air flow. It will suffocate and detach.

Don't squeeze it. Your dog doesn't need the blood back, it's tainted with anticoagulant saliva and digestive fluids.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

After removing it put it in a ziplock bag and freeze it. If your dog starts acting sick in the next week or so take them to the vet along with the frozen tick.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I've also heard that the head can get stuck after you rip out the body. But I'm no dog owner.

Edit: seems like other comment mentions it already.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Yes, and the decomposition of the buccal apparatus can lead to severe infections.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

That is 100% a tick.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'd guess it's a tick. I'm not a vet, but I'd carefully pull on it. If it comes out, it's a tick. Like 75% certain it is. Best of luck

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Don't pull on it. You can seperate the butt from the rest of the body, and you push the blood back from its butt into your dog. If it's a tick it looks really full, and will fall off soon. Get yourself a tick tweezer, that way you hold the tick from its body and then twist it off without risk of pushing blood back.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Yeah I 2nd tick tweezers. I removed a lot of tick from shalter dogs and ticm tweezers are so simple: just don't pull but rather, like state, twist it off!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Sure looks like a tick

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

If it's a tick, you should be able to see its legs if you can part the dog's hair closer to where it's attached.