If you haven’t done so already, I urge you first to check out my friends experience with Lyme disease. Unfortunately, our health sector is grossly unprepared to deal with this issue. However, rising temperature and damp conditions favour the spread of Lyme disease and it is most certainly on the rise in humans and dogs. The good news is the vast majority of tick bites are relatively harmless. This video below will show you how to use them. We stock them in the shop but for 2019 we’re giving one out free with every order form our shop. As the tick is holding itself in by a barbed tooth, you must slowly rotate the tick to remove it (keeping it’s mouth-parts intact and stuck to the body, you don’t want to leave these in there as they carry baddies). The best tool for removing them is a tick-remover tool. 50/50 Apple Cider Vinegar and water (add salt for extra power), lemon juice, Colloidal Silver, iodine, or any suitable medical swab or antiseptic cream, etc. Secondly, once the tick is removed, disinfect the area with whatever skin safe disinfectant, e.g. Then, should suspicious symptoms pop up in your pet (or you), you can easily have the tick examined to see if it was a carrier of any baddies. Two important tips given in the first video below is, should you remove a tick, keep it in a covered jar (ideally with a bit of alcohol in it, yes vodka is fine). Check out the video below for the how-to. You’ll find them anywhere but the warmer and the thinner the skin, the better, so ears and armpits are favourite spots. Ticks are hard to spot, initially, but they usually look something like the below. You can also add the drops to a bandana or cotton collar …and you can pop a few drops on your own clothing while you’re at it. ![]() Apply two to four drops topically to the neck, chest, legs and base of tail. ![]()
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