This dog came into the animal hospital I work at today.
The process of before, results, and after removing all the ticks.
Results
How often do you get cases of that?
We do get tick infestation cases every now and then. Tick fever and such. But this is the worst we've seen yet.
That's gross af
P.s. the whole ear was covered with ticks you couldn't even see the skin.
Was the other ear similar? Was it a stray or owned by someone lazy?
Poor doggo
>>2153578
Yup the other ear was similar. And it was a stray.
Are the big bulbous light brown ones dead and still latched on?
What do you do with the ticks after they are removed?
>>2153586
Before extraction we sprayed on some medicine kill them. Basically they're dead but their 'teeth' are still latched onto the skin.
>>2153588
We soak them in alcohol so they're dead then just flush them down the sink
How often do you get stray animals with (presumably) breast tumors that burst? I've already seen 2 this year. Is there anything you can do to save an animal with that? I work at a shelter, both cases were bad, infected open wounds and had to be put down
>>2153591
good job op. as an animal lover i thank you. please make another thread if you can posting a before/after photo of that dog and other animals you've treated
>>2153596
We see tumours fairly often. Both internal and external tumours. Maybe on a daily basis(?) Once awhile we get tumours that turn into abscess and sometimes they do rupture. Usually we treat it as a an open wound first to allow the pus to drain. Because it's not advisable to operate(remove the tumour) in fear the infection would travel inside the body. Once the infection goes down, we proceed to remove the tumour by operation.
>>2153596
Have yet to seen a breast tumour that has burst.
Poor fellow. Good on you for saving an innocent doggo, OP! I am sure he/she is really happy to have all those ticks gone.
What's next for him/her? I assume you work with a shelter and the doggo will get altered and try to find a home?
What is this stuff? Bug asses? Swollen skin?
I was always fascinated by pulling parasites out of someone's flesh. Should've become vet too so I could do it myself.
>>2153662
They are tick asses after they drink a bunch of blood. The mouths are clamped down underneath.
I think they like dog ears because they're full of blood and more dark and moist than most other parts of the body.
I'm happy that poor dogger is okay. Good job OP.
>>2153570
Can I vomit now or should I wait
Do ticks actually go inside the earhole?
>>2153811
They do. Not OP, but I have pulled ticks out of there, but I think it is more rare than having them stuck on the pinna. The most memorable pup was assumed to be deaf, but he wasn't. He just had a few big ol ticks blocking his ear canal.
Fuck ticks. Literally the worst animals. It makes me so mad when I feel a tick petting my dogger.
gross
when I was a kid, I used to pull these off of all the strays i'd pick up from god even knows where. I lived nexted to a cat lady (literally had 98 cats in her apartment. Used to take them to a petsmart in the next county once a week to get them adopted) that taught me how to pluck the head so it wouldnt come off and bury itself further under the skin
Would also spend hours popping fleas between my thumbnails before I was old enough to afford flea medication. Cured a case if earmites once with straight peroxide swabbings
Gross but good times
>>2153821
How so you even go about removing ticks that are inside the ear? It seems like it would be almost impossible with the dog moving and working in such a small, dark canal.
>>2153856
mites are 100x worse then ticks.
you can't even see them with the naked eye.
>>2153629
I work at an animal hospital. This was a stray brought in by a kind person to be treated. Will probably be adopted by the person who brought it in.
>>2153938
Awwww. That's really cute. Glad he got another shot at life.
>>2153571
that doggo is looking a lot better
bless you
I once had a little maltese dog come in and I discovered 6 fully engorged Austalian paralysis ticks on her neck and face.
She couldn't have weighed more than 12lbs, but the only symptom she showed with me was a tiny bit of vomiting.
Her owners rushed her to the vet and had the anitserum just in time, so she was fine.
If she hadn't come in for grooming on that particular day, she very well could have been dead by the next morning.
It was freaky.
>>2153930
Poor dogger.
RIP in piece mangy puppy.
>>2153570
Question: What is your opinion on zeutering as opposed to standard castration?
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>>2153572
Jesus christ
>>2153571
gj op
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>>2153572
That's fucked.
I'm adding ticks to my list of things I wish were extinct. Rather, bumping them to the top three.
>>2153572
How long did it take to get them all off?
>>2153570
I can never understand how living creatures who wind up like this aren't deaf for life.
With that sheer amount of tics you'd think at least one of them would be shoved deep enough by it's peers into the ear canal to rupture something.
why aren't there spoilers on this board oh my god i want to die
I have an extremely strong stomach, and that shit made me dry heave. What the fuck, OP?
>>2155510
2 people helped to get them off. Maybe around 2 hours + ?
>>2155516
I would think she would be deaf by now too. But surprisingly not, she still responds to sounds. So that's really good :D
>>2155571
It's okay. You're not alone.
>>2154913
We don't practise zeutering here. But I supposed standard castration would be a better choice as zeutering could still allow small amounts of testesterones to be released (?) Well, that's just my opinion from what I read.
>>2153570
I wanna get a knife and scrape all those off really bad
This is like fucking with my natural grooming instincts. How the fuck did you even get those off?
>>2153570
Any pics of the other ear?
>>2155674
Nah. Didn't take any more pics other than these 3. The other ear is exactly the same anyway. Full of them freaking ticks.
This is gross but at the same time it makes me wish I could be the one to address it. It's like watching videos where they pop cysts and what not. There's something satisfying about the idea of removing an infestation like that. It's almost like I'm glad that the infestation exists, just so that it's there to be cleaned up. I don't know how to describe it. It's the autistic/OCD part of my brain that wants to remove every tick one by one.
The worst part is that the dog could probrably hear the hundreds of insects feasting and scratching and wriggling.
Every time it woke up, every time it fell asleep.
>>2155823
Same
I NEED to to scrape these off, like holy shit that would be the best fucking thing
>>2156228
There is no reaction image in my possession that accurately describes my feelings when looking upon these images
please never post these anywhere again
>>2156230
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>>2155823
popthatzits.com
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>>2156238
Is the person who brought the dog in paying for everything? Just curious. I'm glad it got brought in. I hope they really do adopt the doggo.
I've brought in strays before and am typically able to pay at least $400 for treatment but if it's something terribly expensive or a long haul treatment that isn't comfortable in the slightest then they pretty much just get put down.
Well this is pretty much the most horrible thing I've seen this month. And I frequent /b/.
Fuck this thread, I'm outta here.
>>2153571
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>>2156239
how often do you guys see shit like this?
QUIT POSTING THIS SHIT
>>2156233
Go back to tumblr, you fucking pussy. 4chan isn't your safe space.
>>2155819
Question: How do you remove a tick without leaving the head and proboscis embedded inside the skin? Is there any way to do this at home in case my dog ever gets a tick?
Also, is there any way to remove a tick without allowing it to vomit any of the blood back inside the flesh, thus decreasing the chance of infection/disease?
>>2156366
>The newfag is strong in this thread.
Yeah, what's wrong with you people that can't stand seeing an animal experiencing something so horrible that they won't even allow it on vet shows like Dr. Pol?
Oh, that's right, normal people don't enjoy watching animals suffer from health issues that will literally cause you to vomit if you don't have a strong stomach.
Clearly only newfags would find this content inconvenient.
>>2155666
You're doing god's work, Satan.
AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
op pic was sort of tolerable but the rest
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
>>2156395
The animal isn't suffering. This post is literally about a vet helping the dog
>>2156368
Burn it with a hot fork. It will hate that and come out. Then pull it off.
>>2155666
Yer doing great work helping puppers.
NEVER STOP, YA HEAR ME? Also moar pics.
>>2153570
I just want to say that you and your collegues and assistants are amazing people for helping animals like your pic related. You choose a difficult profession but one that saves the lives of so many animals. There should be more people like you, Vet anon. Keep being amazing!
Oh man, OP, that's awful. Poor doggo. I'm glad he was brought in so that you could help him.
And good on you. Ticks freak me out so bad. I couldn't even get near that many ticks, let alone stick around for 2+ hours to remove them all. Thanks for being a hero to that poor dog!
>>2156395
>The newfag is strong in this thread.
Yeah, what's wrong with you people that can't stand seeing an animal experiencing the sweet relief of having thousands of parasites removed?
Oh, that's right, normal people don't enjoy watching animals being rescued my humane individuals and then being adopted out to good loving permanent homes.
Clearly only newfags would find this content inconvenient.
>>2156605
But any kind of bad stimuli will cause the tic to regurgitate as much blood as it can back into the host before pulling itself out, to make itself as lightweight and fast as possible to escape.
I wish I could help animals like you OP
Brb checking every inch of skin of my dogs skin with a magnifying glass.
>>2153571
How could something like that happen?
Arent ticks poisonous to dogs?
>>2157157
ticks are potentially deadly to anyone, including you. It's pretty rare for them to inject enough venom to cause a problem though. They usually release their venom when they're full and about to leave.
>>2157161
Yeah but I was wondering if that kind of infestation doesnt happen to wild animals commonly how could it happen to a dog stray or otherwise
Hey if any one is interested I just started working as a client care coordinator at a 24 hour veterinary clinic. It's the only one in the area for a few hours.
>>2156238
Fucking hell, I can't stop thinking those are mushrooms growing out of poor doggo.
Jesus Christ, fuck ticks
>>2158145
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tick_paralysis
>my dogs have micosis
>take them to a vet
>vet close next day because they were not actual vets and killed 3 dogs while showering them
>i have been going to that bed for 5 years and they operated one of my dogs
How does one get so much ticks?
Also fuck those 3 posts, my job makes me suspectible to ticks.
>>2159611
By being a stray dog and collecting them for quite some time with only a few chance to encountrer someone that might do something about it..
>>2159659
Yeah but you dont see wild animals with ticks this bad if that was the general rule
>pet shot I send my dog to gets a bad case of tick infestation
>get huge ass tick out of my dog
>it's there, trying to escape
>pick a shoe, wear it as a glove and smash it with it
>blood sprays into my eyes and mouth
How do you remove ticks? Poison them? Tear them off just like that?
Also, does it hurt to be full of ticks?
>>2160210
I've had small ticks before and they don't hurt, they're sneaky.
Maybe having tons of huge ones would hurt though.
>>2156395
>browses /b/
>isn't a newfag
>>2160198
Yeah you do. Have you not heard of the 'zombie moose'?
>>2160210
Pull them out carefully, you don't want the mouthparts to remain in the dog.
You don't want to poison/smother them as this tends to lead to the ticks regurgitating into the dog- a recipe for lyme disease.
>>2160232
Noo....
>>2160232
Gotta Google that now
>>2160210
OP said they spray the ticks with medicine to kill them then pick them off since their heads are still embedded in the skin
>>2160198
>>2160232
>Ticks may be small, but they can result in very harmful health effects. Heavy infestations can result in hair loss, behavioral changes, and even massive blood loss. Recently, states like Idaho have reported sightings of so-called “ghost moose,” or moose so infected with ticks that they appear white, hairless, and gaunt.
>“Infested moose can have tens of thousands of ticks,” the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (DFG) said in a press release. “One dead moose was documented to have over 100,000 ticks. Pity the biologist who had to do that necropsy and count them!”
>>2160684
>100,000 ticks
>>2160684
Like i said, tick infestations do happen naturally in the wild.
>>2160786
Yes, I agree.
>Killing thousands of ticks to save one dog
Oh but when we shoot one (1) gorilla to save a kid everyone flips out. Fucking hypocrites.
>>2158310
What benefits does this give to the tick? Once the host is paralyzed, pack-mates of the hosts tries to help and get infested too? More safe exit from the paralyzed host? Just to fuck things up even more?
Op here. Just to make things clear, I live in a warm climate country. So yes, ticks are a common problem that we see here.
>>2160859
Some animals are better at grooming themselves and eat/kill the ticks in the process. So it might benefit the tick to paralyze their host so it can't kill it before it gets a chance to get its meal and detach
what is this exactly?
looka like a tumor with insects inside
this is why you buy those anti tick creams
>>2160210
there is a spray that kills them all instantly
I might just kill myself so this never happens to me.
Thought the same when I found out tapeworms exist.
>>2160928
This
Parasites are Satan's wrath upon this Earth, and the only way out of them 100% is to kill yourself.
I won'tdo it preemptively, but if I ever get bed bugs, tapeworms, severe ticks, etc. I won't hesitate one bit on setting myself on fire and jumping off a cliff.
>>2161005
Take joy in the fact that many parasites carry parasites themselves.
>>2156869
it's fucking disgusting =/= wow god i hate animals so much
>>2161415
No, what's disgusting is one anon comparing someone WHO RESCUES AND REHABILITATES ANIMALS to a /b/ tier trolling shitposter spamming gore.
There's nothing wrong with being proud of a good days work and wanting to share a successful rescue of a defenseless animal with like minded fellow animal loving individuals.
Now get yourself a pair of fucking balls and grow up. This isn't tumblr. 4chan is not your safe place. Real life is gross, and nasty. And sometimes doing right by our fellow living creatures is gross and nasty.
Deal. With. It. Bitch.
Or GTFO.
>>2160844
Different context entirely and another set of circumstances altogether. Get back to first grade and sit at the front of the class, boy.
