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The Best Way To Remove A Tick From A Dog - 30 Day Challenge 12/100

This hub is part of my 30 day challenge, read more about the challenge in the hubpages forums. Ticks are horrible blood sucking creatures that can carry and transfer diseases from your pets to you! There are...

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How to remove ticks from your dog

Ticks are not only annoying blood sucking bugs but they are also vectors of a variety of diseases. For this very reason, if you live in the country or take your dog on a hike, you want to inspect your dog...

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The Lime Disease tick72

lime disease

Lime disease (lyme disease), or borreliosis, is a highly infectious disease which is most commonly caused by spirochete bacteria from the tick genus Borrelia. The infection is typically caused initially by...

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Lyme Disease in Dogs

Do you live in an area where ticks abound? Not all ticks carry the bacteria that causes Lyme Disease, but if you have a dog, then the subject of Lyme Disease in dogs should be of great concern to you,...

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Removing that Annoying Tick

Recently, my precious friend and dachshund, Fritz, was infested by a very small, yet hard to get rid of tick. The frustrating part was, no matter what I tried, that tick would not get off of my dog. First,...

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How to safely remove a tick

From what I've heard about ticks, there seems to be a general consensus that removal can be achieved by using a lit match or cigarette, however, there are serious dangers associated with this method. For one...

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Got Ticks?

Its Summer and a great time to be outdoors. One of the hazards of being outside during the summer is you might pick up some unwelcome travelers called ticks. Ticks are a small blood sucking parasites that can...

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