Best Dog Tick Remover Tools
Tick Twister was invented and designed by a French veterinarian in the 1990's in two sizes, one for removing very small and small ticks and one for removing medium and large ticks. They are made of injected plastic (polyoxymethylene=POM). It removes the tick without squeezing it, reducing the risk of infection.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"We bought this over 8 months ago and just used it for the first time today on one of our dogs."
"I've gotten pretty good at pulling them out, having removed more than even most vets do in an entire career. It then left me stunned (yet elated) at the realization that I actually just found removing a tick to be easy (almost enjoyable) lol. My only concern was that I'd drop the tick once removed, so I also bought a few other tick remover tools that look like tablespoon measuring sticks that are supposed to catch the tick once removed but I've never bothered to use them bc to my surprise, no matter how big or small, this thing grabs them so tightly that I often struggle to get them off the tool when putting in plastic bag lol also, these come in 2 sizes - the others only come in one, as you can see, I'm often dealing with microscopic ticks so having two sizes is incredibly useful (although I've grabbed the wrong one when removing a tiny tick, but the large one still worked so perfectly that I didn't even realize i had the larger one in my hand till I placed it down next to the small one lol). In all, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this tool & I'm certainly gonna be using a lot of this thing...."
"***TIP: I also recommend getting a strip of sticky tape ready before you remove tick because tick will start moving quickly to find another host."
"At first I thought maybe it was a little skin flap (he has a couple) but upon further inspection, it was a buried tick."
"I am so thankful I came across these when I did because ticks are at an all time high right now in New England."
"This is an excellent product that I used to remove a tick from my cat's body with success.First I applied a flea tick solution to my cat's. neck (ticks lodge in the area surrounding the neck.)."
"Just what we needed to replace the set we gave to another to take home."
"It doesn't make the removal painless as my poor hypersensitive dog will attest to, and I add bactine to help numb area, BUT it does make it EASIER (especially small ticks) and quicker to remove them."
Tick Twister was invented and designed by a French veterinarian in the 1990's in two sizes, one for removing very small and small ticks and one for removing medium and large ticks. It removes the tick without squeezing it, reducing the risk of infection.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"We bought this over 8 months ago and just used it for the first time today on one of our dogs."
"I've gotten pretty good at pulling them out, having removed more than even most vets do in an entire career. It then left me stunned (yet elated) at the realization that I actually just found removing a tick to be easy (almost enjoyable) lol. My only concern was that I'd drop the tick once removed, so I also bought a few other tick remover tools that look like tablespoon measuring sticks that are supposed to catch the tick once removed but I've never bothered to use them bc to my surprise, no matter how big or small, this thing grabs them so tightly that I often struggle to get them off the tool when putting in plastic bag lol also, these come in 2 sizes - the others only come in one, as you can see, I'm often dealing with microscopic ticks so having two sizes is incredibly useful (although I've grabbed the wrong one when removing a tiny tick, but the large one still worked so perfectly that I didn't even realize i had the larger one in my hand till I placed it down next to the small one lol). In all, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this tool & I'm certainly gonna be using a lot of this thing...."
"***TIP: I also recommend getting a strip of sticky tape ready before you remove tick because tick will start moving quickly to find another host."
"At first I thought maybe it was a little skin flap (he has a couple) but upon further inspection, it was a buried tick."
"I am so thankful I came across these when I did because ticks are at an all time high right now in New England."
"This is an excellent product that I used to remove a tick from my cat's body with success.First I applied a flea tick solution to my cat's. neck (ticks lodge in the area surrounding the neck.)."
"Just what we needed to replace the set we gave to another to take home."
"It doesn't make the removal painless as my poor hypersensitive dog will attest to, and I add bactine to help numb area, BUT it does make it EASIER (especially small ticks) and quicker to remove them."
Simply put the ticks body through the largest part of the opening in the key, slide it down so the smallest part of the opening is around the tick, and give it a pull. Safely removes the tick body and embedded head with ease. Multi-colored Tick Keys.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"If the tick has already bitten you, you just place the circle key hole around it's body pressing it tightly up against your skin and then you slide it until it's head is caught securely in the pointy part of the key hole. This little tool always helps me get the tick heads out; whereas I've had many tick heads break off and stay stuck in the skin when we've tried removing them with tweezers in the past."
"The poor guy put up with me pulling ticks off him with my fingers, but sometimes chunks of his fur came with them, and tweezers were worse, because sometimes they would leave the head."
"This tool worked quickly and easily, just as advertised, and lifted the tick right off- safely, the correct way!"
"I haven't had a chance to use these yet, but I feel confident that these tick keys will come in handy (hopefully not too many times) throughout our hiking trip out west."
"This spring and summer are already getting bad for ticks where I live, so thankful to have these keys that I can keep handy in multiple locations to be ready."
"I am extremely satisfied with these tick key's. My dog loves to "hunt" Not sure what he hunts but he and one of his buddies go through our woods at least daily."
"Work great, not as effective as long metal tweezers for the smaller ones (deer ticks) but WAY more convenient."
"I live in tick country and this year has been terrible for my dogs and husband for getting the nasty little buggers."
Best Dog Flea Powders
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Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Love the product so far!"
"It actually arrived on time and it does really great on the carpet."
"it seems to be working, cats accepted it and I did not feel that it felt bad to them."
"didn't work at all, so disappointed."
"This didn't work on my cat's fleas and only made a mess."
Best Dog Flea Combs
Available with your choice of a contoured wooden handle, plastic handles with specific teeth for longhaired and shorthaired dogs or with double row of teeth, or convenient double-sided plastic flea comb (also available in a jar of 100). Our Safari Dog Flea Comb is used to control fleas and identify skin and coat problems.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I usually have multiple cat/kittens around the house; 2 forever fur babies and a rotation of foster kittens. I don't know how I missed this flea comb on my original "best flea comb for kittens" google search, but no freakin wonder it's listed as "the best of amazon" or something like that. When flea combing my fur babies I usually wait until they're sleeping (I highly recommend taking the time to research and practice getting your kitty acclimated to being brushed/combed if you haven't already)."
"However, especially during pollen season, it is difficult for me to determine what the specs between the teeth might actually be. I also have the Sentry comb Sentry Flea Comb for Dogs which, for everyday use, I prefer to use."
"The older brush I had worked a little less effectively but my rabbit would not complain for 5-10 minutes."
"Once you break through all the tangles that haven't been through the comb, combing a husky with a flea comb and not getting caught on anything is pure victory -- especially when you work hard and you can't find any fleas!"
"NO dragging or pulling on my medium length little dogs coat, and more importantly no abrasive scratching on the skin, so you needn't hesitate to really get into the dogs hair."
"This comb does a great job at catching the fleas but the fleas tend to get stuck in between the rows of teeth making it difficult to remove them from the comb."
"A bucket of soapy water and a pocket knife to flick the fleas into the drink, and clear the accumulated fuzz, is the best bet in my experience."
Best Dog Flea Drops
Flea, tick and mosquito bites can be very painful for your dog. Fleas may cause Flea Allergy Dermatitis (FAD) and if ingested, fleas could cause tapeworms. K9 Advantix II is a veterinarian-recommended monthly flea, tick and mosquito treatment for your dog that kills through contact. Kills all flea life stages.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I treated him with this Bayer Advantix II when he was hanging around our house one night and when he wandered into our yard the very next day, about 13 hours later to be exact, the fleas were all dead! And the prescription brands (such as Comfortis and Trifexis) are great, totally effective, and have the added benefit of heart worm prevention, but if your budget doesn't allow for that, I would urge you to consider Advantix II. I mark down (using provided stickers) the dates we treat our dog with Advantix, and there have been plenty of times where I was a week or two late (whoopsie!"
"I liked this product because my little guy didn't seem to have the weird skin sensation they can get as a side effect sometimes from topical flea repellants."
"Usually I can get the fleas off the dog with a few flea baths, as long as I'm treating the cats (the dog is a weimaraner so not much hair)."
"We rarely find ticks on our dogs and if we do the ticks are usually already dead."
"I had tried flea collars on both my cat and chihuahua, along with daily vacuuming and spraying everything with flea spray, and many baths."
"My Pug hates it, but wait until he gets eaten alive by mosquitos in the Spring time."
"These topical flea products use different active ingredients, and they all seem to work for a year or two."
"First off, this product caused a strong skin reaction on my dog which gave her an open blister that seemed quite painful and took over a week to heal."
Best Dog Flea Collars
The Seresto collar is water-resistant* and remains effective following a shampoo treatment, swimming or after exposure to rain or sunlight. *Seresto is water-resistant and remains effective following a shampoo treatment, swimming or after exposure to rain or sunlight. Easy to use, non-greasy, odorless flea & tick protection, in a convenient 8-month collar.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"We've tried Frontline, Capstar, Program, Advantage, flea collars, flea shampoos, spraying fipronil in the area around the barn where he lives, diatomaceous earth, brewers yeast and garlic, cedar oil and cedar chip bedding, and nothing worked. I hesitated to pay $50 for a flea collar that might not work, but took the chance and ordered this Seresto collar. Since the collar worked, I've also ordered one for our little indoor dog and the indoor cat, who also have fleas (but not as many). If these collars really kill the fleas for 6-8 months, they are worth every penny of the cost. I also set off some Hot Shot flea fogger/bombs in our carpeted bedrooms, where we had fleas (the pets sleep with us)."
"So we did various non-flea bomb things: we went to great lengths to get rid of the fleas inside and outside the house, we bathed our dog frequently, we combed out the disgusting bugs on a daily basis, we got the Seresto collar and we stopped the Frontline and switched to Nexgard. Our problem was extreme so the baths for our darling Cavalier were necessary – we used a special antiseptic shampoo that helped her skin and killed the fleas that were on her. We talked with a number of customer service reps, wonderful all of them, both at Frontline and Bayer (the makers of Seresto) and even corresponded with a few of the world’s top vets and scientists in the field of flea management. Fighting home flea infestations is a task that requires a lot of work, time and persistence. Pupae can remain dormant for up to 6-months, hiding in crevices and maturing into adult fleas, months after you’ve stopped fighting. Since they can linger in your home dormant, you want to stop them from growing into adulthood 6-months after you think you got rid of the problem. Once the pupae mature, they ‘wake’ up, sense the warmth of your pet, jump on your animal baby and start the cycle all over again. In the heat of the infestation, we would sprinkle and rub salt and diatomaceous earth in all the crevices and large swaths of the carpets. We’d also launder sheets, and doggie bed covers, and any fabric on which our dog would lie, in hot water, frequently. In order to gauge our progress, we set up a few desk lamps on the ground above aluminum dollar store food storage pans filled with soapy water. Fleas get attracted to the warmth of the light, move toward it and of course they can jump as high as four inches so in they would go into the water. Over time, the dead fleas in the soapy water diminished to the point that we knew we had won the battle. When we were going through our flea trauma I relied so heavily on these types of reviews that I wanted to “pay it forward.” Good luck to you."
"Medical services are reimbursed on a case by case basis."
Best Dog Flea Control Shampoos
Adams Plus Flea & Tick Shampoo with Precor is a concentrated lathering shampoo enriched with oatmeal, coconut extract, lanolin, and aloe. Kills fleas, ticks, flea eggs, flea larvae, and lice.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I would have to warn you, that after using this shampoo, keep your dog OUTSIDE for 24-48 hours. I counted at least 10 little ones.. and the big ones... dear god... my dog found them before i could and burst them... leaving blood everywhere."
"I have tried everything from boric acid to diatomaceous earth, flea collars and cheap flea drops to bathing them every few days in dawn dish soap and vacuuming twice to three times a day, and NOTHING worked. My friend recommended this shampoo, and at this point one of my cats had developed a severe allergic reaction to the fleas and all I could do was cry because I couldn't help him. And as for the actual effectiveness of the product, hundreds of dead fleas sunk to the bottom of the tub, and hundreds more came off with the flea comb. Then I would thoroughly comb the cats and rinse the fleas into the bath water since it was full of soap at that time and the living fleas would inevitably drown. I am happy to say that the combination of the shampoo and flea drops have left my cat - for the first time in little over a year - flea free."
"I just seriously need to bomb my house because if there are still fleas in the house, the cats will always get fleas on them no matter how much I bathe them with flea shampoos, and it’s gonna be a never ending battle."
"I had a recent flea infestation, and gathered tons of products to fight the war."
"Everybody had fleas in November and December due to unusually mild weather; we tried a flea spray, and flea collars, but nothing had worked on my fluffy Norwegian Forest cat, who was the main carrier."
"I'm thinking the combination of the spray and this shampoo kicked it's butt."
"This is the only shampoo I use on my dogs."
"The shampoo does make their fur super soft and it smells great, but so does Dawn."
Best Dog Flea Sprays
Worse, those bites may expose your dog to irritation, itching and even deadly diseases. K9 Advantix II is a veterinarian-recommended monthly flea, tick and mosquito treatment for your dog that kills through contact. Evenly apply the entire contents of the K9 Advantix II tube to two to three spots on the top of the back from the shoulder to the base of the tail. Convenient, easy to apply monthly topical for use on dogs or puppies 7 weeks of age or older.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"I treated him with this Bayer Advantix II when he was hanging around our house one night and when he wandered into our yard the very next day, about 13 hours later to be exact, the fleas were all dead! And the prescription brands (such as Comfortis and Trifexis) are great, totally effective, and have the added benefit of heart worm prevention, but if your budget doesn't allow for that, I would urge you to consider Advantix II. I mark down (using provided stickers) the dates we treat our dog with Advantix, and there have been plenty of times where I was a week or two late (whoopsie!"
"I liked this product because my little guy didn't seem to have the weird skin sensation they can get as a side effect sometimes from topical flea repellants."
"Usually I can get the fleas off the dog with a few flea baths, as long as I'm treating the cats (the dog is a weimaraner so not much hair)."
"We rarely find ticks on our dogs and if we do the ticks are usually already dead."
"I had tried flea collars on both my cat and chihuahua, along with daily vacuuming and spraying everything with flea spray, and many baths."
"My Pug hates it, but wait until he gets eaten alive by mosquitos in the Spring time."
"First off, this product caused a strong skin reaction on my dog which gave her an open blister that seemed quite painful and took over a week to heal."
"So my poor dog will be in pain and twitching and spasming for a month."
Best Flea Control Carpet Powders & Sprays
Virbac Knockout E.S. Reaches fleas hidden in carpets, rugs, drapes, upholstery, pet bedding and floor cracks.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"Pupated fleas can take up to seven months to hatch. You need to have flea control on your pet(s) to kill these new fleas as they emerge. This is why the pet topical flea control is an essential part of the treatment for flea infestation. Flea Statistics to encourage you to kill all the fleas: For every one flea you see, statistically there are 100 more in the environment! Only 5% of the fleas in your environment are in the adult stage."
"Also washed all bedding with hot water and treated the floors with: Raid Ant and Roach Barrier, 22.0 Ounce. and BioSpot Active Care Flea & Tick Shampoo for Dogs and Puppies, 12 oz.. Luckily I caught it early (his hair is white so easy to spot em in the bath), and treated him and the house within a few days (and continue to)."
"I have lived in an area of Maryland for 17 years and never saw one flea on any of my dogs or cats....not one! My husband and I vacuumed really well and discarded the contents in a sealed bag and "bombed" the house at 3 different times.....I am sure that it helped, but didn't do the trick. We purchased Nature's Wisdom Food Grade Diatomaceous Earth (you want the food grade in case your pet licks their feet---you can even dust your pet with it) and put it on the carpets, furniture, floors, everywhere. We mopped the vinyl and ceramic floors with Clorox water and it worked instantly. I didn't wring all of the water out of the sponge mop because I wanted it to sit on the surface of the floor and especially around the baseboards. The other solution (and again you want a vacuum with a beater brush) was salt on the carpets and rugs. Okay, so my husband and I are out at one in the morning applying the nematodes because we are determined to rid that yard of fleas. We will be treating our yard every spring and fall with the nematodes to prevent the fleas in the first place."
"I wish I would have found this product from the start and saved not only money but time and flea bites."