Cats with a tick

This reminds me of the thriller horror movie "Ticks". Have you watched that movie? It's about ticks mutated by toxic wastes dumped in a junk garage... The cells of the ticks got mutated and grew abnormally to the size of humans and went on multiplying wildly attacking people here there and everywhere!

I don't use anything on my dogs, but I've never found fleas or ticks on them either. When I do, it'll probably gross me out so bad, I'll use flea and tick collars for ever. How do you remove a tick?

I have just removed ticks from my dogs. The problem was when I brought them back to my other house and let them stay in the unoccupied house for few days while I was in my mom's place. When I came back for them to be brought back to where I am staying presently I was shocked to find that they were infested with ticks which have fattened from sucking their blood. I quickly bath them with strong anti-ticks solution which I got from the vet. The ticks disappeared quickly and the dogs are no longer scratching.

That's a good thing you were able to get the tick off your cat quickly. I've heard ticks aren't so easy to get off, but maybe that's just when they're on people. They say that ticks latch on and can bury their head in the skin or fur or whatever. it's hard to get them off when they bury their head because you have to pull the head off with them or else their head stays underneath the skin, which can probably infect the host. Don't they suck blood also? Whatever they do, they are creepy! Good thing you saved your cat from that discomfort. I'm sure that was no fun. You definitely rescued your cat!

hi jugsjugs just do not use the match thingy as thats cruel to a pet, my dad used to do that, and I was always afraid he would burn the cat or the dog. I used to use tweezers and pull gently but straight up. I am always so afraid of rocky mountain spotted fever, as people really get ill with it. Where I grew up we often went up to the black hills on the weekends to fish and often found ticks on our bodies, so got used to removing them. Never got sick but have known others to have contracted spotted fever and know its a bad disease. we used tick powder on our dog. i can well imagine your mums boy friend was shocked. the things look different once they come off the pet or off yourself.I hate that feeling and was very careful to wear protective clothing to mimimize the chances of getting a tick stuck on me.

i use flea and tick meds on my cats and dogs, I hate to but we have so many deer and the cats go after mice and voles which carry fleas so I can't risk getting these vermin in the house. I didn't catch the fleas one Summer and it was the Summer from Hell until we finally got rid of them.

Ticks can carry very deadly viruses; it's great that you were able to take them off. How did you get it off? You said it was easy to get off. I know they really can drain quite alot of blood.

I am so glad I no longer live where dogs or cats get ticks but my neice was taking one off her puppy and made a hole as big as a bb shot. so they do have to come out no matter what.

I have a adopted stray cats that have ticks. I did not see it though when I picked her. As I clean her I saw the tick and I removed it immediately. From time to time during those times I removed it until it was totally gone. The tick suck her blood that is why she was so thin. When I removed the tick she became fatter and she is always hungry. I believe she is now healthy because her hair no longer have tick.

I used to take ticks off my dog. It is important to get them off before they dig in.

My grandmother used to use coal oil to bring them out. I was always getting them running through the sagebrush. Not smart enough to cover my body with clothing. So when I got home she would have me disrobe and she would check me out. She would check me and my clothes. It was such fun!

my cats used to get ticks all tha time from the country fields,they're quite easy to remove but you have to make sure the legs don't break off inside the cat,otherwise it may get infected,that happened to my cat twice

Did you have the cat vaccinated? Its likely that cats my have lime disease and if it bites or scratches someone, may spread it and infect someone.

Hi there you can also use Frontline for Cats. This will keep this pest under control and away from your cat. Ticks are hard to control, one female can lay up to a thousand eggs.

Yes, they are ugly and nasty little creatures. I have found 2 this year, they where just crawling and I got rid of them. I hope I do not find any more.

Hi, jugsjugs. Our old family dog had ticks really bad. He had them so bad that we could see them deep down in his fur. It was sad and it disgusted me too. The ticks were just eating away at his flesh. And there were flies that were flying around him too. I think that someone much stronger in our family removed them. I did not want to touch them at all. I know that we got something to reduce the ticks but I don't know what we used. I hope that you can get rid of the ticks that your cat has.

how do you remove them? is it the same on dogs as well as cats, I mean to remove them? my sister in-law has a puppy that someone told me had ticks but I've never seen one and I have three stray cats one of them I can touch and handle but I've never seen a tick period!!

Ticks are very dangerous to pets I’ve heard. My cats live indoors only so they are safe but I usually worry about my dog that is outside most of the time. We don’t have too many in our state but that is not to say that we should stop being vigilant! I always check mu dog to make sure she doesn’t have them. It’s good that you know how to remove them correctly because if you don’t, it can create more problems than what you started with!

I hate fleas, tick and lice specially in pets. I don't have a cat but I have dogs and every summer they manage to get on my dogs so we use a drop of a certain chemical(prescribed by the local veterinary) along with their shampoo and soap. I call it the flea terminator but when you use more than a drop it could kill affect your pets pregnancy

Hello I have neither cat nor dog as pet, just a green parrot for my youngest daughter in law. But i am happy to see this post, it gave me information about tick, thanks for the information Happy posting Prof