Ticks and lyme disease on cats
Ticks can spread Lyme disease. If a tick is on your cat for too long it can develop this disease. Lyme disease is a bacterial infection given to the cat by the ticks. Luckily you can’t catch this disease from your cat, only from the ticks.
Ticks get on wild animals like deer and mice that have the bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi, which cause the Lyme disease. Then the ticks have a nice meal of blood from these animals. The ticks then jump onto the cat and bite it. This gives the cat Lyme disease.
Symptoms for Lyme disease are not bad in cats as they would be for you. You need to look for the following symptoms in a cat with lyme disease: lameness, arthritis, joint swelling and pain, lack of appetite, fever, swollen lymph nodes, lethargy, dehydration, and in real severe case kidney failure could occur.
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