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found a tiny deer tick behind my cats ear. ~7 year old male, always been healthy, he's outdoors for a few hours about 4 nights a week in warmer months.
I saved the tick in a bag and called the vet but receptionist said wait about a months before testing.
With myself, in past few years I found 3-4 tiny deer ticks on me from doing landscaping and in the 90s etc when I used to play in the woods a lot etc I found several larger wood ticks that don't carry lymes but more recently have found deer ticks on me and the doctor didn't say anything about waiting a month, instead they drew my blood and tested the tick for lymes and rocky mountain spider fever and luckily never had anything.
All these ticks including the one I found on my cat (can't believe I felt it), were removed within probably 18-24 hours of being bitten, so that's good.
thanks
I saved the tick in a bag and called the vet but receptionist said wait about a months before testing.
With myself, in past few years I found 3-4 tiny deer ticks on me from doing landscaping and in the 90s etc when I used to play in the woods a lot etc I found several larger wood ticks that don't carry lymes but more recently have found deer ticks on me and the doctor didn't say anything about waiting a month, instead they drew my blood and tested the tick for lymes and rocky mountain spider fever and luckily never had anything.
All these ticks including the one I found on my cat (can't believe I felt it), were removed within probably 18-24 hours of being bitten, so that's good.
thanks