Tick season here. Resources are available to help pet owners deal with tick removal and media will cover this topic as spring lets us get outside with our pets, friends and families.
These resources about tick removal work well for social media, in-clinic education and e-newsletters.
Source: Pets-WebMD.
- Video: How to Remove a Tick From Your Pet. Link.
- Video: How to Remove Fleas and Ticks. Link. Bonnie J. Willhite, DVM discusses fleas and ticks as vectors
Source: AKC, March 4, 2019. Link#1. Link#2. Two good articles worthy of social media or e-newletters
Source: Pet Basics from Bayer. Link. How to remove a tick from a cat.
Source: Today, March 29, 2019. Link. Video exposes tick bite challenge to small child supported guidance on tick removal, destroyal and prevention.
INSIGHTS: We live in a world of short attention spans. As animal health pros, we talk about tick prevention and control over and over and over. A challenge is that the next person we talk with may not have ever heard the tick story enough to act on. Don’t let your repetition fatigue keep you from having yet another discussion about tick prevention