tic advice please

[frownyface]

my cat has a horrible disgusting pea sized tick.
I have given him spot on this morning but it is still attached this evening. Do I need to manually remove it? (pleease say no, I can cope with removing the little ones but the big ones are revolting)

[issey6cats]

if you cant bear taking the tick off yourself ring your vets and they will probably do it for you, and ask them to sell you a tick remover its like a pair of tweezers that clamp together, you squeeze twist and pull easy to do and not that yucky put tick in loo paper and flush, horrid luittle feckers they are

[Lonecatwithkitten]

Most of the spot ons take between 24 and 48 hours to kill the tick after they have been applied.
I have moved to using Seresto collar on my cats because it repels ticks and prevents them from attaching. It lasts 8 months so no need to thick about it and bizarrely the posh arrogant boy who will slice you to death whilst you apply spot on doesn't mind the collar so I am safer!!!