02/09/2026
🚨 TICK SEASON IS HERE! 🚨
Is your pet up to date with their tick prevention?
Paralysis tick envenomation can be life-threatening and potentially fatal, even with treatment - so prevention is key! 🐾
🕷️ Tick prevention options include:
• Yearly tick injections for dogs (which can be aligned with vaccinations)
• Monthly chews or spot-on treatments
• 3-monthly chews or spot-on treatments
• 6-monthly spot-on treatments
• Tick collars
⚠️ Know the early signs of paralysis tick envenomation:
• Lethargy or unusual tiredness
• Weakness in the hind limbs, a wobbly gait or staggering
• Difficulty or changes in breathing
• Changes to their voice
• Gagging, drooling, vomiting or difficulty swallowing
• Reduced or no appetite
⚠️ Tick paralysis is a veterinary emergency ⚠️
If you think your pet may be showing signs of tick paralysis, seek veterinary treatment immediately. The sooner treatment begins, the better the chance of a positive outcome.
🐶🐱 A note for our owners of older pets:
Dayboro Village Vets has seen multiple tick paralysis patients over the past couple of weeks. We've noticed delays in treatment for some older, arthritic pets because hind-limb weakness was initially thought to be an osteoarthritis flare-up.
Early tick paralysis symptoms can sometimes be difficult to distinguish from other conditions. Keeping your pet's tick prevention up to date is one of the best ways to help protect them.
If you have even the slightest concern that your pet may be showing signs of tick paralysis, please contact your veterinarian.
❤️ We’re always here to help, and we’d much rather see your pet for a false alarm than have treatment delayed.
Stay safe this tick season! 🐾