Ticks are considered a relatively troublesome type of dog parasite, these ticks will generally board between the dog’s fur, and the ability to reproduce is relatively strong, if the dog is infected with ticks, not only itself will be harmful, but also harmful to long-term human contact. First acquaintance with ticks ticks, commonly known as grass crawlers, also called wall lice, flat lice, dog beans, etc., it is reddish-brown or grayish-brown, long oval, dorso-ventral flattened, body size varies, from sesame seeds to rice grains large. Most of the general dog infected with ticks are infected while playing in the grass, ticks parasitize the dog’s body surface and constantly suck blood for their own growth, which can cause anxiety and even life-threatening to the dog. First of all, ticks can mechanically damage your dog’s skin, making it itchy and painful. Ticks are mostly painless when they sting and suck blood, but because the chelicerae and submouth plates pierce the dog’s skin at the same time, they can make the dog irritable, rubbing against a companion or gnawing with its mouth. Serious can cause local congestion, edema, acute inflammatory reaction, but also can cause secondary infection. Secondly, ticks can suck a lot of blood, which can cause anemia. The larvae, male and female adults of ticks all suck blood. Hard ticks mostly attack their hosts during the day and take a long time to suck blood, usually several days. Soft ticks tend to attack their hosts at night and suck blood for a shorter period of time, usually a few minutes to an hour. Ticks suck a lot of blood and can swell several times to dozens of times after each developmental stage is full of blood, and female hard ticks can even reach more than 100 times. Too much blood can cause anemia, wasting, and stunting in dogs. Anemia generally occurs only in puppies that are severely infected by ticks. Some toxins may also cause paralysis or lameness in dogs, and when ticks are abundantly parasitic on the hind limbs, the toxins secreted can cause symmetrical flaccid paralysis of the hind limb muscles, which generally occurs 5-7 days after a tick bite and is characterized by lameness, dysfunction of the limb and abdominal wall tendon reflexes. If bitten by a tick containing a neurotoxin, the affected dog begins to appear restless, with mild tremors, an unsteady gait, shallow breathing, and an irregular heart rate, and can cause gradual death by exhaustion. Nystagmus may also be seen, but the body temperature is normal and the dog may die within a few hours of the onset of respiratory paralysis. In addition dogs can be indirectly infected with other infectious diseases as a result, and ticks are also important vectors of other parasites and infectious diseases, indirectly causing dogs to develop certain other parasitic and infectious diseases. Ticks are often selective in their host’s parasitic sites, generally in areas where the skin is thin and not easily scratched. Ticks usually attach themselves to the head, ears, and toes of dogs to suck blood. If your dog is infected with a tick, the first thing you should do is remove the tick from your dog’s body as soon as possible. Ticks that bite on your dog’s skin should not be forcibly removed, and direct removal by hand may result in the tick being removed, but the chelicerae and submucosal plates remain in your dog’s skin, still causing itchy or infected skin. The correct way to remove the tick by hand: 1. use small tweezers to avoid the body of the tick and hold it by the legs. 2. gently try to see if the tick can be removed, and if it feels like a lot of work, don’t do it hard. 3. you can first put some vegetable oil on the tick’s body and wait for the tick to suffocate and die before you clip it off. If the tick is red and inflamed, you can apply a little Lincomycin Lidocaine gel, which is often called green ointment, to relieve pain, itch and inflammation. If there are many ticks on your dog, you will need to go to the vet and use a 0.04%-0.08% aminophena solution scrub or bath, along with a subcutaneous injection of ivermectin-type medication. Prevention in order to prevent dogs from getting ticks, prevention is usually important, should do a few things: 1. Try not to take the dog to the dense grass because ticks are present in the dense grass, if you do not want your dog to get ticks, the most fundamental is to try to go to the grass and woods. If you do, look carefully on your dog when you get home to minimize the likelihood of ticks taking up residence. 2. Brush your dog’s coat oftenBathing your dog should not be given too many times, twice a month in the summer and once a month in the winter, but you can use a clean comb more often to comb your dog’s coat, which not only reduces the amount of hair loss, but also makes it easier to find ticks. 3. The dog’s body should be cleaned up in time after the drug is used. 4. disinfect the dog’s place of activity for the daily dog prefer to stay in the place, stage sterilization disinfection, to ensure the safety of the place of activity, clean and tidy. Note that ticks are certainly scary, but as long as we go through reasonable prevention and control, to avoid being bitten by ticks or effective prevention of infectious diseases, the threat of ticks to dogs can be resolved.
