As soon as the temperatures exceed seven degrees, the sign from their winter stiffness awakens and they hunt for a host to breastfeed your blood thirst. With your Angel you can also transfer dangerous pathogens to dogs and cats. Here you can find out how you can protect your pet against the Bloodsuckers and what measures are important in the case of a tick bite.
The warm rays of sunshine outdoors, meadows become colorful and spring shows its most beautiful side. But an unnamed guest also returns with the warm season: the tick.
Also ticks a danger in the garden
Almost everywhere, where pets are also outside, the annoying Bloodsuckers are at home: in addition to forest areas, meadows, banks of lakes and rivers, parking facilities and domestic gardens are also part of the Habitats of Tick.
They are on grass sheets, in bushes or branches and waiting for prey with vast front legs. If your fine sensors are irritated by body heat, air in breathing or movement, you can fall on the animal with the lightning speed.
Hyalomma sign chase their victims
If a tick is up to five times as large as the usual “normal wooden goat” in Austria and your legs have a white stripped color, this can be the type “hyalomma marginatum” (tropical gigantic ceiling). Unlike our domestic species, the “Monster Tick” is not waiting for a host, but is actively hunting. With their long legs, the Bloodsuckers then follow their hosts over a few hundred meters.
Don’t wait, but trade
Ticks are preferred above thin, good -made places such as head, neck, shoulders or chest. There they scratch the skin and put them deep into the wound with their trunk. They not only suck blood, but also lymphedien and cell fluid and with every hour the risk of infection increases. Therefore: delete taps quickly – the faster, the better!
Preventive measures important
In addition to Borreliosis vaccination and daily drawing control (after every free access), the use of a tap is one of the measures protect against diseases sent by ticks.
If a tap has already been confirmed, you should not wait for it to fall for itself. With a little sensitivity, a drawing tong, tweezers or drawing hooks, the Bloodsucker can be carefully pulled out of the skin of the animal. Important! Avoid oil, alcohol, alcohol or nail polish removers for pre-treating the tap: in the suffocation fight “vomits” of saliva or stomach contents in the wound and therefore in the animal body.
Danger of signs for cats
Cats are less often infected with pathogens that are transferred by ticks. Corresponding illnesses are often only clear in cats that have a weakened immune system anyway, for example because of a cold.
Signs for the cat owner are a bigger problem. The velvet legs bring the leeches in the apartment of their trips through the forest and point to the leeches. Owners of free conductors must ensure that they are thoroughly searching their animal for sign after return.
Not every remedy for dogs and cats equally suitable
There are preparations that have a defensive and differentiated effect against ticks. Caution is required with the active ingredient “Permethrin” (against parasites): Although dogs tolerate the remedy very well, it is toxic to cats. Therefore: read the instructions for use accurately. Do not treat dogs and cats with the same remedy. In the drawing season, Cats can best be protected against the parasites with a spot-on agent (veterinarian). Let a veterinarian advise you on whether a drawing protection vaccination or drawing tablet is suitable for your dog.
Source: Krone
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