Tick Head!!???

I was just petting Cooper when I noticed a tick in his neck, so I called my mom over with the tweezers and peroxide, and before I could tell her to pull from the bottom she pulled the only the butt. Now the head is still in him and the skin around it is all red and irritated. How do I get the head out?! Or should I just leave it alone?
Heeeelllp!

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Permalink Reply by Emily McCarty on February 3, 2010 at 12:40am

Thanks everyone for the help! I was so worried!

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Permalink Reply by Emily & Scout on April 17, 2011 at 5:40pm

"It's that time of year again" so I am replying to this old thread I found.

Does anyone know if Comfortis DOES help with ticks? That is what Scout is on, and with all her walks, I have found 2 small (not on for long before I found them) live ticks on her. So I don't know whether we've just been lucky and not gone through many tick infested areas or if it does repel them and the 2 I've found were flukes. It isn't advertised as preventing or killing ticks, but I just started it on both dogs in December, so I forgot to ask the vet.

Today's tick experience reminded me how thick the fur on Scout's chest was. I felt the little bump that was the tick, went to get tweezers, and it took another good 15 minutes to finally re-locate the parasite on her and remove it.