No. Pet Store bought products NEVER work. To stop Fleas, ticks and Mites purchase Frontline from your Vet.
vinegar
People telling you to not use it are being legalistic. If you look at the ingredients of Rid, they are the same as flea and tick shampoos. They don't have the FDA certification so they say not to use it. Look at all the horse shampoos and hoof treatments that humans use all the time. If I already had the flea shampoo I would use it and asap.
If they are in the house and you have carpet that is usually what is infested. Walk around in white socks barefoot and see if you pick any up. Launder bedding.Spray it (carpet-search Precor aerosol) and vacuum after frequently. Get collars for all in and out pets. if possible, have yard sprayed professionally
Put a small drop of olive oil on the tics; the tics will pull out and die and the oil won't harm your pet. Best thing is to use a tick pick which you can by from a vet or pet shop. Even if a tick is dead when you remove it there can still be infected liquids in the tick which can be passed into the dog if the tick is squeezed when removing. A vet will also remove a tick for you.
Tick tick tick tick kaboom, bad sound, mine finally went to the oil pan when passing a cop
Taking a tick out can be tricky. In order for you get a tick out safely use a pair of tweezers.
tea tree oil
Not sure if the tick's head will cause a disease or infection. The best way to remove a tick without pulling on it is to put a drop of olive oil on the tick. The oil will cause the tick to pull its head out as it suffocates.
Probably the head of the tick if you didn't remove it correctly. Dump some mineral oil on the tick, [enough to completely cover it] and then gently twist tick counter clockwise while gently tugging tick out. Do not try to sqeeze it out. It will eventually be dislodged by the body's own defences against foreign objects.
Without hearing the tick myself my guess would be you have a lifter that is sticking. Purchase a can of Seafoam Motor Treatment at almost any auto parts store and Walmart. Add 1.5 ounces of Seafoam for each quart of oil to the crankcase. Drive 100 miles and then change the oil/filter. If the tick remains repeat the process but do not change the oil this time. By the time you reach your next oil change the tick should be gone.
Miata's tend to tick a little.You can try 5-30 oil at your next oil change but it's unusual for a Miata not to tick a little at start up.
Killer whales are killed from oil leaks in the ocean