What if the tick found in the dog or cat, and how to protect your pet

Why ticks are dangerous for dogs and cats

Pet blood-sucking parasites as dangerous for both people and sometimes more. Pets can pick up the disease from ticks, and the owners do not always have time to time to notice it.

Detect the parasite in the dog or cat is more complicated than on themselves. Often this happens when an animal is already there were the first signs of infection.

That's what the pet may be illTicks: Life Cycle, Anatomy and Disease Transmission in Cats:

• Lyme borreliosis (Lyme disease);
• ehrlichiosis;
• babesiosis (pyroplasmosis);
• theileriasis;
• gemobartonelloz;
• gepatozoonoz;
• Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever;
• tick paralysis;
• tularemia.

What to do if a tick bites a dog or cat

If you notice that your pet has stuck to the parasite - bloodsucker immediately be deleted.

If you can not take your pet to the doctor, try to remove yourself bloodsucker: the procedure does not differ from removal mite person.

To do this you will need vykruchivatel, tweezers with fine tips or thread.

If the dog or cat is not sitting still, have someone hold it. Otherwise you run the risk of accidentally crush parasite or tear his body from the head.

When carrying a dog or cat to the vet

If this is not done immediately after biteThen at least three weeks, watch out for the well-being of the animal. Signs of infection do not always appear immediately. Sometimes it happens in 7-21 days.

The first symptomPreventing ticks on your pets - loss of appetite.

Here are some common symptomsTick-Borne Diseases in DogsUnder which an urgent need to run to the hospital:

• weight loss;
• change the color of the gums;
• discharge from the eyes or nose;
• vomiting;
• back or neck is very sensitive to touch;
• convulsions;
• diarrhea;
• loss of bladder control;
• brick-colored urine;
• lymphadenopathy;
• swelling of the extremities or joints;
• weakness.

How to protect dogs and cats from ticks

Be particularly careful to carry out preventive maintenance in May and June - isRecommendations to citizens: tick-borne encephalitis virus and its prevention measures peak of activity parasites in Russia. But do not forget about the protection measures and throughout the season - from March to November.

Any means for animals should be selected taking into account their age: some are contraindicated puppies and kittens.

Also note that the embodiments described belowThe 10 Best Ways to Get Rid of & Prevent Ticks on Dogs there separately for dogs and for cats. Be sure to specify this information in vetapteke before purchasing the drug. Do not treat the cat shampoo from ticks for dogs and dog do not give pills to cats.

All funds contain repellents or miticides. Anyway, these substances are toxic to animals: any drug can cause an allergy, if you overdo it. So always follow the instructions on the packaging. Use (other than pellets) so that the pet can not lick them with fur.

Any preparations against ticks out of the reach of children. Do not allow your child to touch the treated animals, at least the first three days.

Be sure to carry out the procedure in the rubber gloves and do not forget to then carefully Wash the hands with soap and water.

1. inspection

It is the simplest thing you can do. After walking in the woods or park definitely inspect the pet to be noted immediately and pull out the tick.

If pet thick dark hair, the parasite is difficult to see. Therefore combed wool fingers or special protivobloshinoy comb with frequent teeth, while feeling the animal's skin. Do it with gloves.

2. shampoos

They can be bought in veterinary pharmacy specifically for cats or dogs. This is an inexpensive method, but rather laborious: have to bathe the pet once a week. The exact frequency is required to look at the manual. After bathing, allow the pet's coat is completely dry, only then let go for a walk.

Shampoo only repel parasites their smell, but do not kill them. So it's a way to protect the weak. Suitable for cats and small dogs that walking Only in the courtyard, where the probability of catching a mite small.

Validity: 5-7 days.

3. Insecticide, acaricide collars

Basically, they protect the neck and head of the animal. Back, abdomen, legs and tail are under threat. Large dogs this means is unlikely to help, collars are more suited to small gladkoshorstnym pets.

Tapes processed special fluid that repels pests. The collar touches the hair and carries it to the active substance. This happens immediately, you need to wait about two days, before you go for a walk with your pet.

Make sure that between collar and the dog or cat skin placed two fingers. It should not be close, or vice versa, to hang around the neck.

Validity: 4-6 months.

4. sprays

They are useful if you are going to go where there is a high probability mites. For example, in the field or forest. Spray begins to act when the coat is completely dry - after about two hours after application.

Prior to use, read the instructions. Do not spray on humans and other species. Try to spray does not hit the dog or cat.

Do not bathe your pet 2-3 days, otherwise wash off the spray. And if the animal is still visited in the water or in the rain, apply the tool again.

Validity: Acaricidal preparations protect pet about a month, if not bathe him once a week. There are more things on the basis of essential oils, the effect of which is retained a maximum of 7 days. Such variations do not work well, but allowed for puppies and kittens. Term of activity of different sprays is better to specify in a veterinary pharmacy.

5. Drops

Sold in bottles with pipettes. Apply a drop of a dog or cat you need at the ridge line and neck, parted hair. About a day drug substance absorbed into the skin and will operate. But at least the first three days after the application do not let animals into the water.

Validity: about a month.

6. Tablets

Considered a reliable way, but alone it is better not to buy, and to consult with your veterinarian.

In full force tablets begin four hours. The active ingredients are absorbed into the blood even if a tick bites an animal, he immediately dies. This tool fits a large and active pupils, who often walk in the woods. For example, Laikam or borzoi.

Normally, manufacturers make tablets with different flavors. Therefore, any problems should not: pet swallowed the pill. Otherwise, mix it with food.

Validity: about three months.

7. vaccinations

The only vaccine that you can do cat or a dog - from babesiosis (piroplasmosis). But note that from tick bites is not to protect. The vaccine just makes it easier to transfer the disease. Therefore handle pet protection products still have.

Immunity from the vaccine is produced at once, so you need to vaccinate the animal in January-February, a couple of months before the tick season. Frequency of treatments sure to discuss with your veterinarian.

Animals under the age of five months, as well as pregnant and lactating grafting can not be done.

Validity: about six months.

8. The combination of several tools

This will make protection more effective. But tablets should be used separately.

Other drugs can be combined as follows:

• Collar + spray or drops. Suitable for those who go into the forest, as well as for large dogsThat only the collar is not enough.
• Spray droplets +. Often dog breeders are doing, when the action drops already on the wane, but pet urgently need reliable protection.

To learn how to correctly combine the specific means, learn from the vet. Some of the active ingredients do not mix with each other, which can cause allergies.

All preparations against ticks are reliable and safe, when to pick them up with your veterinarian. Collars only as effective as other means.

Tatiana Shmonina, veterinarian

Also try to keep order in your garden and lawn. If you cut the bushes to get rid of excess grass and process trees from parasites, ticks are unlikely zavedutsya. Then pet they will be less likely to pick up.