Hi all
My husband just removed a small size tick from the arm pit of our terrier, he is normally very good at getting everything out so didnt use the tick remover. As it was still in the small stages he obviously didnt have a good grip plus a wriggly dog, anyway the head part is still in her skin. I have tried with tick remover but theres not much for it to get of.

any ideas of what i can put on it or how to get it out please?

not sure when the head is left in but it can become infected so a visit to the vet may be required.

Dab surgical spirit onto cotton wool and hold that on the tick. That makes the tick remove itself from the skin and you can then get it out with tweezers A LOT easier and more successfully

Just got one off my CS ear, always use the tick removers they do work well. Bit annoyed as we also use advatix reguler so its expensive and we still pick up ticks. BC doesn't though? just those long damp ears.....
You can also cover them with vasaline so they cannot breath and they drop off.

I thought my dog Rudi had a small seed on the bridge right above his nose about two weeks ago.  It was grey and shiney and looked sort of odd, so I flicked it a couple of times with my finger.  Eventually it fell off and I looked at it against a white tissue - I still could not make out if it was a seed or something else - so I squished it and it was grey mush.  Never saw any legs - but then again it did not seem like a normal seed either.

I thought nothing of it until a week later when I notice a lump on the bridge of Rudi's nose.  It looked like a small doughnut with a hole in the middle and started to "weep".  A couple of days later the vet took a look at it and said it looked like a reaction to a tick bite.   He said it would take weeks for it to look normal again. 

I think the tick must have bit and then died because of the Frontline.  Gosh, I just switched to Advantix because the product info says ticks and fleas are repelled - sounds like it does not work as well as claimed.   (I also spotted a flea on my other dog - and this was less than one month after I used Frontline.)

Anyway - reading on the web it said that if the tick's head is left in the skin eventually the dog's body will get rid of it.  I suspect though that this may require a reaction around the site of the bite where the swelling/infection pushes the head out, like Rudi's.