How to get rid of a
Blue Tongue
How To De-Tick A Wild Bluetongue Lizard!
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I'm scarlet animals and this is a blotch
bluetongue I'm gonna be showing you how
I do tickle wild blue tongues from my
backyard I get an old towel or tea towel
and I place it down on my legs so then
the lizards claws don't scratch my legs
when I'm removing the teks then I get a
Hard Rock and I put paper towel over the
top so when I'm using my tweezers
pulling out the ticks I can squash them
easier onto the hard rock using a torch
makes it much easier to see the ticks in
the lizard's ears having a headlamp just
makes it easier for a one-person job ah
during the Blue Tongue I like to stick
my first finger underneath the lizard's
head it just makes it easier for me to
hold the lizard they might move around a
bit at first but after you start taking
some ticks off they get used to it and
they know that you're trying to be kind
to them a tip is don't grab clusters of
ticks at the same time so if there's two
ticks next to each other don't try and
grab both of them because they will just
squish together and blood will split up
once I pull it took out I sit it on the
paper towel next to me and then I squish
it blue tongues get lots of ticks inside
their ears and it's sometimes hard to
get them out you need to use tweezers to
pull the ticks out and grab the ticks on
the back and you just just pull you
might take a while sometimes but you get
them out when getting ticks out you
think you might be hurting the lizard
but you're not really hurting them that
much they really appreciate it when you
get the ticks out because ticks can
cause pain and irritation and after
they're out of the ears
they can hear bitter blue tongues having
large scales makes it easier for ticks
to get under some blue tongues may have
loose scales and that means that a tick
has either been under there or is under
there when I'm getting the ticks out of
the scales I like to hold my tweezers up
like this and pull them out from
underneath when they're sideways like
this it's hard to get them up and grab
the tip if they have a little point at
the end like mine I can just easily pull
them out when I hold my tweezers getting
ticks out of the ears
I just go straight in and I pull them
out sometimes I have to turn the
tweezers around to different sides and
angles when you're trying to put ticks
out of the ears you pull out dead skin
that's alright the skins just been in
there for a while and it hasn't been
able to get out because of all the
Teague's
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at the end I like to give the blue
tongue a nice fruit treat if you have
any questions about anything about the D
taking about the blue tongues itself or
just how to handle what to use or
anything just leave them in the comment
section below or you can find me at at
scalloped animals on Instagram I post a
lot of pictures of animals because it is
an animal page they're mainly all found
in my backyard and I usually put where I
find them but if you want to see more
animals just go to my page at scalloped
Anna thank you for watching and I hope
that this video can help you help the
blue tang
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