Injuries.

It's a frightening sight for any pet owner -- a little black bug that won't come off-- but it's that time of year... Tick time.

Veterinarians say spring is when they see more tick cases.... There are actually fewer in summer.

Most ticks will latch on and not cause too much trouble--always the case.

Our hawk hammer working for you tonight-- with with the frightening results of what some pet owners see.

We will have more on that in just a second.... It was a dog, paralyzed by a tick.

But first, you can see how busy it is out here at the dog park..... In here dogs are probably ok, short grasses and such, more wooded.

But long grass..... Where its wetter.... Is where they like.

4:53:09"flobie is a black lab, and millie is a rescue from a high kill center in california" And they are out having a time and a half at the dog park with their human heidi swartz 4:53:59"they can get big those little guys"she's talking about ticks........her dogs have been lucky....but others less so.

4:49:29"rowdy got 6 ticks a week ago, because we forgot to put the frontline on" A nice hike.... Led to a tug of war.

4:49:26"they were about marble sized when we pulled them out"lucky for all of us.... The ticks in our region tend not to carry any serious diseases.

But you should still look for them.

50:47:37 "ticks are trained genetically to go towards a heat source, and move away from the ground"onto you or your pups.

5:05:03"maybe more around the head and neck, but they can be any where, and if you have at hick furred animal, that can be tricky to find them"but find them you should..... Some of the them she says carry a neurotoxin.

She saw a case just yesterday of it.

5:07:06"the owner noticed the dog just collapsed, when she got off the bed, she was flailing and swimming"and then immobilized.

Here she is 5 hours after the tick, which was right on her head, was removed.

Wobbly.

So what to do.

5:07:36"grasp down on the head and firmly pull out, even if you pull skin thats ok, we don't recommend other methods like lighting a match.

If youre dog isn't feeling it, or you aren't feeling it, or you if youre dog isn't lighting a match.

Other methods like don't recommend other methods like if youre dog isn't feeling it, or you aren't comfortable see a vet.

If you want to avoid it all together, she recommends a new medication called bravecto.

Its a pill but not over the counter-- you'll need to get it from the vet.

Otherwise frontline is carried at stores.

And though our area is relatively benign when it comes to damage caused by ticks..... Not so in other areas.

So if you are traveling.... Places like oregon, or the other side of the cascades.

She really recommends those two medications.

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