Does your pet have a regular tick-check?

I take great care to ensure that my dog, Musafir, is free of ticks and fleas. The phrase “tick fever” is used to refer to a variety of diseases caused by blood-borne parasites hosted by ticks; these include Babesia, Anaplasma and Ehrlichia. Making sure your dog doesn’t get bitten by ticks is the best way to protect it from any of these illnesses. So for every tick you find on your dog, you can assume there would be around 50 ticks in the house, possibly concealed in fissures and cracks. A tick infestation in your home warrants tick- and flea-specific pest control while you use a tick-repellent product on your dog.