Frontline is not an incesticide. As said before, for many reasons removing the tick with a tick remover is the safest option. Should your ferret have a tick, Frontline is designed to be absorbed through the skin of certain mammals, including ferrets. The treatment is absorbed through the skin of the host and into the bloodstream, therefore directly able to be absorbed by blood feeding parasites and therefore kill them. It's not rocket science.....!
so howcomes if you put frontline on a cotton but and dap it on a tick likes for say a dificult one right in the ear the next morning it's gone