He used my tweezers to de-tic the dog!!

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Tonight I watched enraptured as my DH took my tweezers from the bathroom cabinet, removed a tic from the dog ("ooh I got its head as well"...), faffed about with savlon, rinsed them under the cold tap then put them back in the cupboard.

He claims he savlonned the tweezers and this acts as a powerful steriliser but I don't agree and anyway I don't think he did, I think the savlon only went on the dog.

He thinks I'm overreacting but it's gross, right?

I would be more put out if I were the tic, to be honest Plucked out with lady garden tweezers. Bloody hell.

Seriously, ticky tweezers will not be the start of the zombie apocalypse. The metal will survive being in brief contact with the outside of a small arachnid.

Snurk at boning a salmon!

hehe.

all i can say is : use a thermometer from the house of a dog lover at your peril.

though absolutely only a proper tic puller to pull tics - best way to get all of the nasty little bugger out.

A vet told us not to remove and just treat with flea and tick stuff on the back of the neck. It's a slow death for the tick and it does stay in a wiggle around for a few days but nothing gets left behind.

ARGH! People! it's a TICK, not a 'tic' - a tic is a nervous twitch.

Sorry, just had to get that out.

I'm just at the idea of anyone tweezing their nether regions! Sounds painful.

Ooer, my DH once used whisky when de-ticking our last dog. The dog could never stand the smell of alcohol thereafter.

We've got a card now.

Sorry flouncer, it's something I've always wondered but never been frigged to look up

Big tic vg for your spellings

Oh I am not used to a ticing off over spelling.

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It must know the tweezers are coming...

Did you not think to stop him before he did it??? grin

...and that was a par'tic'ularly good one

You people are just mean. Mean and not even a bit funny.

Actually, to buck the trend, you need to sterilise tweezers really well after de-ticking, because ticks carry all sorts of pathogens, so any spit up (so to speak), or blood if you crush them is very nasty. That's why you have to be careful not to squeeze the tick when you remove it as you don't want it inject any fluid back.

Lymes disease is a tick special. V nasty.

Why do I know this? Because DH once wore shorts in deer field and his legs were covered with them (I boiled the tweezers for several hours )

YANBU.
He could have hurt the poor dog, he needs proper tick tweezers for tick.
Leave the bastard.

Ticks do carry all sorts of nasties but - to catch them from tweezers - you would need to douse the tweezers in the tick's body fluids then immediately jam them into a cut in your skin, preferably one with a bleeding blood vessel.

is no-one going to comment on using Savlon on the dog?? hilarious

What's funny about using savlon on a dog? Ours had a lesion on his ear which wasn't healing so we've been savloning it, and when he had to go to the vet for something else I asked and the vet said to carry on.

I don't think savlon is any weirder than the blob of uhu the vet used to 'mend' his paw pad and charge us £50 for! Outrageous.

are you meant to remove ticks at all? i always thought there was a risk of leaving a bit of it in the dog and causing all kinds of problems....i always thought you had to dose them with something until they shrivelled up and dropped off?

on that basis and that basis alone, he was being unreasonable.

you can sanitise the tweezers.

correct me if I'm wrong, someone, but I think now there's Lyme disease you want to get the buggers off ASAP to minimise the chance of transmission. The little notched cards work remarkably well.

I wouldn't worry too much about the tweezers - just boil them, or wipe with alcohol.

I got a little plastic tick removing tool from the vet which usually works really well. - But this weekend my dog got one on her eyelid (gross) and wouldn't let me near with the tool, so I had to just wait until it dropped off (the tick not the eyelid).

you have to remove them, I was told by vet.
Now apparently if the dog's been frontlined/advantixed regularly it should not be bad.
I have these big spoon like tweezers with long handles. Cost me a bloody fortune in Switzerland when bloody dog acquired the fattest tick imaginable.

Serve him dinner in the dog bowl!

YABU, its just tweezers. Just clean (get him to) and sterilise.