How do you tell if your Dog has a Tick or Scab?

The first step to recognizing a tick or scab is performing a physical examination

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Ticks appear as black or dark brown living creatures with distinctive legs.

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Whereas Scabs are hardened crusts on the skin resulting after an external trauma.

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Ticks are blood-sucking parasites which depend upon their hosts (dogs) for their nutrition.

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Ticks can fast grow into their mature forms and are easily communicable, that is they can spread from affected to healthy dogs easily

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On the other hand, scabs are non-communicable and occur due to multiple reasons

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Depending upon their severity and occurence reason, scabs can be both harmless as well as cancerous

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While both ticks and scabs may appear as rough bumps intially, their physical appearance gives them away

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However no matter if its a Tick or Scab, both are equally harmful to a dog and should be handled properly

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