Getting them drunk
Soak a bit of cotton wool in vodka. apply to the tick for a couple of minutes and they fall right off. Use that method on the dog all the time.
(Freak on a Leash is jerking off to centre himself on, Mon 23 Aug 2010, 18:19, 2 replies)

Yep.
Gin works too.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Mon 23 Aug 2010, 22:15, closed)

Nope, it causes them to regurgitate their stomach contents
which may contain all sorts of nasties.
(oneinthepink is at your cervix m'lady, Tue 24 Aug 2010, 11:02, closed)

I used rubbing alcohol
Cos I needed the vodak to wipe out the memory of swabbing and tweezing thousands (3,000, I'd estimate) off a poor little dog dumped by its owner. Don't know the breed, but it will forever be known as a Tickenese.

And yes, I'd put the flea/tick controller on him, which is why I had to swab-- I could not OD him with any more poisons.
( kila is reading clocks upside-down as usual, Tue 24 Aug 2010, 11:34, closed)