How do you get rid of ticks on your ferrets?

Question

How do you get rid of ticks on your ferrets?

Answer 1

Why  do you allow your ferret to be outside for that  long to get ticks in the first place? My ferret used to go outside once in a while cause he liked to dig in the dirt, but when he had enough he used to head for the door. Once he got inside, I would take his leash off and he would be fast asleep within minutes. He never got tics.

Answer 2

Pull them off or take them off. They don't make tick spray for ferrets because they mostly aren't where ticks go.  

Answer 3

Before you take him out you should purchase some Ferret flea and tick sprays. They do seem to work and mine do not get fleas or ticks. I also use the flea comb on them daily.

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Remove the tick properly. Using sharp pointed tweezers, or specially made tick tweezers, grasp the tick as close to your skin as possible, as close to its embedded mouthparts as you can. If you squeeze the body or head, you risk compressing the guts and salivary glands and expelling even more organisms through their mouth into your body.

Do not twist the tick or turn the tweezers as you pull out the tick. Pull out straight with a slow, steady motion. Twisting may force more organisms into your body, and may result in the head or more of the mouthparts being left in your body.

Do not apply any substances to the tick before removing it - no alcohol or nail polish, no petroleum jelly or other ointments, and do not try to burn it out or otherwise convince to let go of you. It won't let go. It will just happily keep on sucking your blood and pumping pathogens into you.