Follow these Tips:
1. Gather the tools. The list is below.
2. Don’t do it alone, have another person help you..
3. Take the tweezers and grab the tick by the head, as close to the cat’s body as possible. Do not grab the tick’s body!
4. Slowly but firmly pull outward. Do NOT twist or jerk.
5. Once the tick came loose, drop it into the glass with alcohol where it will be killed and desinfected.
6. Apply hydrocortisone spray to the bite wound.
7. Thoroughly wash and desinfect your own hands and safely dispose of the dead tick.
Myths:
It is an urban legend to use vaseline, kerosene, nail polish remover, or rubbing alcohol to either suffocate the tick or force it to come out on it’s own. All this action will do is irritate the skin around the bite more and cause infection.
Keep treating the bite wound with hydrocortisone spray until it scabs over.
Tool List
Tweezers
Rubbing Alcohol in a glass
Disinfectant
Hydrocortisone Spray