Mary Allen
Not only humans and free-roaming cats are looking forward to the warm season. Even ticks can hardly wait. They lurk on the grass and in the bushes, always ready to drop down on the nearest warm-blooded animal and draw blood from it.
It doesn’t stop with sucking alone. The common wood goat also transmits diseases and triggers allergies. The parasite, which is initially only the size of a pinhead, is often found stroking the cat’s fur. If it’s stuck, you have to act quickly: the tick has to go as soon as possible. It used to be advised to douse the bloodsucker with alcohol, glue, or oil to get it to let go. Today it is known that the tick threatened by such means ejects a considerable amount of gastric juice into the “tipping point”. This increases the risk of transmission, for example, of Lyme disease (results in inflammation of the joints and kidneys, among other things), tick-borne encephalitis (TBE is an inflammation of the brain and meninges caused by viruses), and babesiosis (causes, among other things, severe anemia).
Remove Tick Immediately
That is why the tick is removed as soon as it has been found. The best way to do this is to use tick tweezers, which you apply as directly as possible to the skin and then twist the tick out. The direction of rotation is irrelevant because ticks (contrary to popular belief) have no thread. If you live in a risk area, you can protect your free-roaming cat from tick infestation with spot-on preparations (from the veterinarian).