[header] How to keep ticks from your dogs [title] Use a tick repellent collar on your dogs. [step] Having your dogs wear a tick repellent collar can help keep ticks away from their heads and necks. These types of collars sit on your dogs' skin and release chemicals or active compounds into the fatty tissue just below your dogs' skin. 
[substeps] These chemicals won't hurt your dogs, but they will kill and repel ticks. Place the collar carefully on your dogs so that they won't be able to turn their heads and chew or bite it.