Wherever you live in the UK, there is a risk that your pet could pick up ticks. Ticks can be found in long grass, parks, meadows, woodlands and even in your home. Often they will attach to your pet’s skin where the coat is thin, such as around the ears, or close to the ground, such as on the paws.
Once attached they will engorge themselves on your pet's blood, causing their body to swell. During feeding ticks can transmit potentially serious diseases.
The following maps show the prevalence of ticks across the UK**
Ixodes ricinus
Where: Throughout the UK.
Disease Risk: Lyme disease & Anaplasmosis.
Ixodes hexagonus
Where: Throughout the UK.
Disease Risk: Lyme disease & Anaplasmosis.
Dermacentor reticulatus
Where: Several UK locations including Essex, SW England, Wales and Coventry.
Disease Risk: Babesiosis.
Rhipicephalus sanguineus
Where: Throughout Europe and is an emerging risk in the UK.
Disease Risk: Ehrlichiosis & Babesiosis.
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TICK-BORNE DISEASE IS ON THE RISE
To reduce the risk of transmitting tick-borne disease choose a fast-acting product that kills the key ticks affecting dogs and cats.
Lyme disease is on the rise. Did you know both the Sheep tick and Hedgehog tick can transmit Lyme disease?
Lyme disease can affect dogs, cats and also YOU. Having a pet dog or cat almost doubles the odds that humans will find a tick on themselves, and that could raise the risk of contracting tick-borne diseases like this one.3
Anaplasma phagocytophilium is an intracellular rickettsial parasite that can cause disease in cats, dogs and YOU.
The symptoms of Anaplasmosis include fever, lethargy and a lack of appetite. A single tick can be infected with both Anaplasmosis AND Lyme disease, and potentially transmit both these diseases simultaneously to cats, dogs or YOU. Infection with both Anaplasmosis AND Lyme disease is likely to increase the severity of symptoms seen.6
Babesiosis is a potentially deadly tick-borne disease transmitted by the Marsh tick that can attack your pets’ red blood cells.
Until recently Babesia canis was only found abroad and thought to be absent from the UK. In the last few years cases have been reported in untravelled dogs from Harlow and Romford in Essex, Ware in Hertfordshire and also in Coventry. As a result dogs bitten by the Marsh tick here in the UK are now at risk of being exposed to the potentially fatal disease Babesiosis.
Ticks are a threat
Are your pets protected?
Choose a treatment that:
Licensed to kill the 4 key tick species affecting dogs and cats
Works fast, kills ticks within 24 hours
Easy to administer to your dog
Easy to administer to your cat
There are a number of ways we can help to prevent the increase in ticks and related disease transmission.
Use of products that rapidly kill the key tick species affecting dogs and cats will significantly reduce disease transmission.7
Carefully remove any ticks found using a tick hook (‘twist and pull’ action); or fine pointed tweezers (removed with a smooth upward pulling action).7
Regularly check pets for ticks, particularly their head, neck and legs.8
Check dogs after every walk.
Be vigilant for ticks all year round.8
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* Affecting dogs and cats
**It is important to note areas with no records do not necessarily represent areas of absence of tick, but simply that no records have been received from that location.