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Flea dust or dead tick?

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AvocadoSoup · 20/07/2022 11:16

We've just come back from a holiday in Wales and whilst there my dog got 5 ticks! We kept spotting and removing them and also treated him with frontline. Quite the week as he has never had even one before in his life 🤪 Now we are home I was stroking him and around the scruff of his neck there is a little sore and a load of what looks like black dust. Nothing is alive, or at all bug-like. I've brushed a lot of it out now but there is a picture attached. I am wondering if it's a dried up dead tick that's been killed by the frontline, or if perhaps we have a new problem now and it's flea dirt?! I can't see any of the dust anywhere else on him but he's tri-colour so it's not easy to see.

Flea dust or dead tick?
Flea dust or dead tick?
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Sitdowncupoftea · 21/07/2022 09:33

Keep brushing him daily as the flea treatment kills the fleas not the eggs.

belge2 · 21/07/2022 09:48

It's def flea dirt. There will be love fleas somewhere I hate to say. Frontline doesn't work on my dog for either fleas or ticks (major tick zone here). Be vigilant - it only takes 1 flea for the whole cycle to start again. Goodluck!

justanothermanicmonday21 · 21/07/2022 15:50

My dog had this round where a tick was and I assumed it was just the dirt.

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