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(17,162 posts)And seriously, I have no idea .Ive never heard of cats getting ticks either. I hope someone that is not a smartass like me answers!
I asked because one of the feral kittens got inside the house and I had a blast helping her get out but she has neither fleas nor ticks. Now I know cats can have fleas but we put flear powder on the patio. In all these years I've never seen a tick on one of them.
Ohio Joe
(21,655 posts)Does it also protect against ticks? I've had cats all my life and I'm trying to remember but... I can't recall any powder/collar for fleas that did not also do ticks. To be fair though, my memory is really not what it used to be
malaise
(267,796 posts)and I have never checked out what else it kills.. Will have a look tomorrow
Deminpenn
(15,246 posts)Vet told me once the tick got full of blood it would drop off. That's what happened.
Probably only indoor/outdoor cats are at risk.
malaise
(267,796 posts)Deminpenn
(15,246 posts)short periods.
NNadir
(33,368 posts)patricia92243
(12,590 posts)ferals around my house wouldn't let me close to them much less to pick them up to look for ticks.
malaise
(267,796 posts)take them to the JSPCA to be given away.
Funny you ask because one of the wilder males was rubbing against my leg this morning as I was feeding them. He had a leg injury and I protected him so he could eat. Now he trusts me. Mind you I wouldn't dare try to pick him up
marble falls
(56,358 posts)hlthe2b
(101,705 posts)the rise in cats. Ticks have to be attached for at least a few hours to transmit most bacterial (Lyme & Tularemia) and probably longer to transmit parasitic blood or protozoan disease, so one might wonder if short-haired cats with constant self-grooming might be able to remove them fairly promptly on most areas of the body... But longer-haired cats give ticks the advantage.
Short answer though.. they do.
BTW, heartworm disease is exploding in cats in the South/Southeast, but even in my own state of Colorado. AND, lest one think that indoor cats are safe, entomologists have confirmed mosquitoes get in through housing vents (and of course open doors or screenless windows) which likely explains the more rare cases in cats reported to never go outside.
Only going to get worse with climate change--along with everything else. sigh...
I learn something new every day
Dale in Laurel MD
(694 posts)(Fewer than I have to get off myself though.)
MLAA
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malaise
(267,796 posts)The dogs used to get ticks but I've never seen them on cats
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PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)NNadir
(33,368 posts)Usually you don't see them until they become engorged.
This is new to me
Ocelot II
(115,267 posts)malaise
(267,796 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,274 posts)from Bobcat Fever, transmitted from a tick.
https://www.caes.uga.edu/news-events/news/story/8635/Bobcat-Fever.html
lastlib
(22,978 posts)I would bet that I pulled a couple dozen off of her--fortunately, most of them before they attached.
UTUSN
(70,494 posts)Last edited Sun Jul 18, 2021, 01:09 PM - Edit history (1)
Yea, I know cats "clean" themselves - uh, LICKING themselves DUH!1 -- Am I the only one who thinks LICKING themselves is *NOT* good for hooman petting them?!1
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