Help.. how do I get these off!

My cat recently started going into the backyard its like a jungle out there. She caught these recently. I tried to pull them off but they're too small.

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Are they alive, or sticker like, or just dirt like? I would get some dish soap and rub it in and see if that would help, that would kill anything alive and hopefully start to dissolve anything else. Just make sure you rinse it well with a warm, wet washcloth. If you can identify what it is at all, maybe you could look on the internet on how to remove it. It kind of looks like embedded stickers, if it is they will just have to work their way out, you might keep some antibiotic salve on hand if they become infected. Please keep us posted on what you do. All the luck!

No, they're not embedded stickers, they are really really tiny insects! some are small, some were large, same kind though. I was able to took off the large ones but the small ones wont come off easily. I tried washing and rubbing her ears with a tooth brush, i used cat shampoo but it didnt work so i let her be and thought ill go get some shampoo that kills them but i wasnt able to go. I saw her ears today, most of the tiny ones on the ears came off on their own i dont know how or where they are now, but the ones on the inside of the head are still there. 

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They kind of look like these
 

Hi @maliha

If they are ticks they will eventually drop off on their own. The problem is that ticks often carry diseases, so it's best to try and prevent your cat from picking them up. Keeping your cat indoors is obviously the best way of doing this. Regularly using a flea medicine will stop ticks from biting most of the time, but my cats occasionally pick them up even though they are treated with a flea and worm medicine.

You can pull the ticks off with tweezers, but you need to make sure you get the whole tick and don't leave the mouth parts in the cat.


Another way to get rid of them it to put a tiny drop of a liquid flea or wormer directly on the tick. This will kill it and it will drop off after a few minutes.