Cat ticks looks like spider, egg-shaped, blood sucking creepy crawlies. They have six to eight legs depending on their life stage and varies in size from about 1mm to 1cm long.
Ticks are wingless, but they can climb or drop on your cat’s coat when they brush past the area they are sitting in. they stick tightly to their prey and feed fat on them. Once they are fully feed they drop off. This pesky parasite tend to attach themselves to areas around your cat’s neck, ear, head, and feet.
Signs of Tick on Your Cat
Cats with outdoor access are at much risk, that doesn’t mean indoor cats are completely free form ticks. Ticks can be hard to find on cats and can look like a small skin lump. It only takes 24 to 48 hours for a tick to transmit disease to your pet. These symptoms are
• Shifting leg lameness
• Stiff or swollen joints
• Lethargy
• Loss of appetite
• Fever
Visit your veterinarian if you are worried your cat is infected.
Natural Tick Prevention Method
When you notice that your cat’s health has been compromised and you want to avoid using chemical products, natural alternatives are great options to consider. This options include:
• Intentional and effective search for ticks daily.
• Keeping your cats coats clipped short during tick season, enabling more effective tick search.
• Keeping your cats indoors.
• Homeopathic protection to stimulate the animal’s immune system and build resistance to the tick toxin.
Nothing carries a 100% guarantee when it comes to tick prevention, so choose preventative measures that is best for your cat, your lifestyle, and your location.
How to Remove Tick at Home
Pet shops sell handy tick-removal devices, this device makes it easier to remove this ticks yourself. You need to be intentional when removing tick so as to carefully pull and not to squeeze the tick’s body, leaving his head to get stuck inside your cats.
Squeezing a tick’s body can cause it to expel blood back into your pet, increasing the risk of infection. Seek advice from your vet if you’re worried.
• Once you’ve located the tick, use gloves gently part your cat’s fur so that you can easily reach the tick.
• Get your handy-tick removal and slowly push it under the tick’s body, when you have a firm grasp of the, twist it in a clockwise direction several times until the tick comes loose.
• Take a look at your cat’s skin and ensure the tick is completely removed.
• Wash the area with your pets soap and water to resin.
• Get rid of the tick by putting it in alcohol or popping it in tissue and flushing it down the toilet.