Ticks on a cat !!!!

pigpen

Our vet doused said tick in surgical spirit and it dropped off deceased within a day or so.

caroline.. that sounds gross!

Waterfalls

i cant think of anything that repels ticks on cats, u usuallly have to wait until it attaches, then the products (frontline etc) kills them from there

Caroline_a

pigpen wrote: »

Our vet doused said tick in surgical spirit and it dropped off deceased within a day or so.

caroline.. that sounds gross!

It was exceedingly gross. Imagine trying to pick up a large protesting tomcat and putting him in a carrier (where he didnt want to go :rotfl:) by your fingertips.... yuk! Who'd be a vet nurse!!

gettingready

Pulled another 4 off Fred :eek:

None of the other cats has any, neither does the dog....

The "bushes" where Fred and George like hiding in... there was a hedgehog nest last year....

Will check him again in daylight tomorrow, what a grief, poor cat

gettingready

Tippytoes wrote: »

Well, the vet who talks "rubbish" is long established and well respected by his customers. The English are well known for being gullible, so I guess the vet may be taking the rise. I'll ask him next time I take my hamster for grooming.

Sorry, I made the mistake of trying to help - has dignity to keep tongue in mouth.

Fantastic - but pls tell your established vet not to use vaseline on a tick as this causes the tick to vomit its stomach contents into its host which you want to avoid because of any disease the tick may be carrying - ticks carry the bacteria that cause illness in their saliva that is how the diseases are transmitted.

Perhaps let your vet stick to grooming hamsters.....:A

choille

Frontline does help a lot to keep them off. We have ticks here in droves - sheep & deer - they can carry lyme disease. I do the sheep with Spot on & the cats with frontline.
If you roll your finger over an embedded tick for a while it's easier to get out as it retracts/extracts its jaws - you don't want to break the head off & leave it in the cat - or yourself. We also get the odd ticks in us & have had to get anti-biotics once.

juliebunny

Oh what a grosse thread, LOL!! :rotfl:

We often take in stray cats with the odd tick. The vet told me to use frontline. I found out after that I was just supposed to apply to the neck as usual but I put it directly on the blighter and found it dead fallen off a few hours later.

I don't know how to safely remove them without leaving legs and head in the poor cat to get infected so this was a good option.

Luckily my own cats only seem to come home with burrs on them, although I've never seen these so they must wander somewhere unknown to pick these up.

One of my cats has a penchant for eating Army worms and then sicking them up in the house - my poor vet, when I took her a sample of her sick cos I thought she was infested with worms!

eamon

With Cat 1 I had to get into the habit of frisking him every day and removing "parasites". You do develope a very intimate relationship with your cat.

gettingready

Oh yes you do - Fred rather enjoys being turned belly up on my laps and having me running through his "underneath" inch by inch.. no more so far but I have not let the cats out since finding those ticks yukkkkk