How to remove a tick from a cat or cat

Most urban cats do not walk on the street, but ticks manage to find animals even in an apartment. Using their strong crooked paws, the arachnids climb the walls to the windows and crawl into the apartment through the cracks or the open window. Therefore, knowing how to pull a tick from a cat will be useful even to those owners of tailed pets who never let their pets out on the street.

How to detect tick

The parasite that has not yet adhered can be found by carefully examining and stroking the cat. Those who sued are sometimes harder to find. Mites prefer to stick to animals in places with the thinnest skin:

• ears;
• eyelids;
• lips;
• groin area;
• anus.

But ticks can also be on the cat's neck or back. In the thick coat of parasites, the easiest way to find is to scratch the cat properly.

Important!

Do not iron, but scratch against wool. Even still hungry, but already stuck tick under the fingers feels like a solid movable tubercle. Finding such a tubercle, you need to disassemble the wool and make sure that there is a parasite. Sometimes for the tick you can take the old sore, which began to lag behind the skin. On the stomach, the main thing is not to confuse ticks with nipples, which are not only in cats, but also in cats.

How to remove a tick from a cat

After the discovery of the bloodsucker, you can proceed to its removal:

• make the cat more comfortable;
• try on a tick;
• grease scratched hands with green paint;
• drive the cat into the carrier and take it to the veterinary clinic.

Most cats, really, at any attempt to manipulate them, begin to fight for life as if they know for sure that they have received an order for a hat from their skin.

But there are ways to get a cat tick at home.If the cat really does not like such manipulations, it can be immobilized by driving them into the sleeve of the jacket so that the head sticks out of the sleeve. After that, with the head and around the tail, all the manipulations can be carried out quite calmly.

On a note!

In the veterinary clinics there is a special “sleeve” that allows you to immobilize a cat and open access to any part of the animal’s body, depending on the procedures performed.

How to properly remove the tick

Tick ​​at the cat

It is not necessary to give in to the advice of sprinkling the already attached spider-like remedy for fleas. Bloodsucker will die. But not at once. And before death, it will release into the blood the contents of the intestines, along with all the infectious agents present in the insides. The proboscis of the dead parasite will remain in the skin of the animal and will break off when attempting to remove the corpse.

Bad advice also to lubricate the bloodsucker with oil / nail polish / acetone / gasoline and other household chemicals. Another day the arthropod will live, suffer and infect the victim with viruses.

For cats, the arsenal of means for removing arthropods is less than for humans. But the same tools are used:

• industrial;
• tweezers;
• thread.

Industrial items include special items that allow you to remove a tick without squeezing its torso. They may look like a mini-nail puller or a special thin wire loop that retracts into the grip.

The device is neatly placed under the tong and is twisted like a screw. To turn the parasite, twist it counterclockwise.

Important!

In no case can not roughly pluck arachnid. In this case, it is easy to tear off the head, which will remain in the skin.

In the absence of special tools, you can rid the animal of the parasite with tweezers. Not very desirable option, as unscrew the tick with tweezers, without squeezing the body of arachnid, zadachadvovolopmennaya.

Tweezers

Tweezers bring as close as possible to the skin and clamp the head ixod under the body. Then remove, also twisting counterclockwise.

Thread

A loop of thread is thrown over the head of an arthropod, it is tightened and the parasite is removed, gently swaying it from side to side. With this method, the arachnoid head often comes off.

Tick ​​broke

Mite cat or cat

With careless removal of the parasite with tweezers or a thread, the head often remains in the skin.an animal. It looks like a black dot if the cat's skin is white. If the skin is black, it is impossible to see the proboscis. If the tick's head remains in the cat's body, 2 options are possible:

• wait until it comes out;
• extract with a needle.

In the first case, usually no complications occur. Sometimes a hard tubercle appears at the site of the remaining proboscis in the skin, which disappears itself after some time.

In the second case, to pull the head of the tick from the cat, take the usual disinfected needle and pick it out as a splinter.

Important!

Kotu will not like this manipulation.

Veterinarian

If the cat did not manage to remove the tick from the cat at home, and the owner himself needed medical assistance, there was only one way out: a visit to the specialists. How much does the "tick off" service cost depends on the region and the level of the clinic. In Moscow, the tick will get for 150 rubles, in Dzerzhinsk for 50 rubles.

In the veterinary clinics, the cat will be immobilized in the “sleeve” and the parasite will be pulled out, using industrial tools to extract arachnids. At the request of the owner can analyze the parasite for the presence of infectious diseases.If ixod was infected, it is better to start treatment of the cat as soon as possible.

Animal is not given

If the nature of the cat is such that it can neither be immobilized on its own nor be put into a carrier for a trip to a veterinary clinic, there is only one way out: to let everything take its course. If you do not pull out a tick from a cat, usually nothing bad happens. The parasite either falls off, having drunk blood, or the cat strikes it. In this case, combing is possible at the site of the bite. But the cat's immune system most often deals with this problem on its own.

Since the arthropod will fall off on the floor of the apartment, you must be prepared for the fact that soon the house will be flooded with hordes of larvae.