The spring and summer period is dangerous by emergence of pincers – the smallest animals sticking into skin and eating blood. Their favourite habitats are deciduous forests, the damp marshland with a high grass. Pincers more often meet also in city green plantings. It is not so simple to take the stuck parasite, and even after death toxic agents from his organism can be transferred to bitten. The diseases transmitted by pincers are dangerous not only to the person, but also to pets – cats and dogs.
Let's consider diseases with which dogs can be infected by pincers.
Granulotsitarny anaplasmosis. Usually this disease is shown at dogs is more senior than 8 years. An incubation period – 1-2 weeks. It is shown in the form of lack of apatite, fever, slackness. There can also be cough, vomiting, diarrhea and spasms.
Babesiosis (piroplasmosis). Dogs of combative breeds are usually subject to this disease. An incubation period – 1-3 weeks. Symptoms: refusal of food, weakness, fever. Even the recovered dog can be the disease carrier.
Disease Laima (borreliosis). An incubation period - 1 month. The disease has no obvious symptoms, but lameness, apatite loss, increase in lymph nodes is sometimes possible.
Gepatozoonoz. This disease, unlike others, is transmitted not at a sting of a tick, and at his hit to a stomach of a dog. From symptoms it is possible to notice a pobledneniye of mucous membranes, slackness, fever, weight loss.
Infectious cyclic thrombocytopenia. Period of an incubation of 8-15 days. At a severe form the fever, bleeding from a nose, a pobledneniye of mucous membranes, increase in lymph nodes are possible.
It Demodekozproyavlyatsya in the form of loss of wool, baldness, small wounds.
The cats living in the apartment have less chances to pick up a tick, but the parasite can get also to the house on things of the owner or through a window.
Some diseases and symptoms are identical at cats and dogs. It demodekoz and Lyme's disease.
Besides there are diseases peculiar only to cats.
At a sting of a tick of cheyletiella the baldness, peeling of skin and a wound are possible.
Cat's itch. Loss of wool, an itch as a result of which wounds develop.
Prevention
For prevention of a sting of animals pincers it is necessary to process them special medicines – shampoos, sprays and also it is possible to give to dogs and cats of medicine or a drop, acquired in pet-shops or veterinary pharmacies.
From fleas and ticks the frightening-off collars help.
After each walk it is necessary to examine the pet. The tick sticks into skin not at once, and some time creeps on a body, and it can be found and removed before it starts a meal.