adult cat tick bite by smallest tick I have ever seen I used tweezers to remove it and think I got it?

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but it was so small and it was squished. Spot ok for several days and then it had a small scab which I think she rubbed off.  It kept forming a scab etc and 5 weeks later I felt a bump.  It looked like a pimple the size of a new pea.  I went to squeeze it lightly to see if it had pus in it and she jumped and my finger nail lightly scraped the top and it bled and no pus was in it.  Now it is 8 weeks and it is still the same.  No redness around it but there is dried blood on the top.  If I can avoid the vet would like to - had her teeth cleaned and it cost over 250 dollars.  We live in Sweden and costs are outrageous.  We will take her in if no help from here so no yelling.  Good health and good jobs when we got her.  Heart attacks and other major things and both are early pension losing over 65 percent of our salaries. Things change over 13 years time.  But we have cared for out diabetic kitty through many wakeful nights and want her to be ok.  I waited as my neighbor said before when she had a cat that it often got bumps like this and it would stay for a long time.  She is tied on a rope outside when she wants to be and has had a couple ticks a year even though we put on front line and has never reacted this way.  Thank you.

Haley · Accepted Answer

i don't know what it is, and i am going to warn you now that half the answers you get are going to scream at you to take her to the vet or to not leave her outside regardless of everything you said... my advice would be to wait a little longer if it gets bigger be worried and if shes not scratching at it and making it bleed maybe shes just reacting differently to a different species of tick or has developed an Allergy
I had a cat for 15 yrs and he started to get scabs all over him he was an outside cat and we took him to the vet and here he just developed an allergy to fleas and ticks later on in life and we got some cheap ointment from the pet Store and he was fine so dnt get too worked up for now

Unicornrider · Answer

There's not just one type of tick. Back in Africa we used to get these little red ticks, and they were the ones to look out for. But almost like their larger grey cousins, their head stays behind due to the ferocious clamping power of their jaws. You would have to look under a really strong microscope or magnifying glass. That scab should not keep coming back - I suspect the head's still in there.

? · Answer

She should be fine, its just a normal scab that takes time to heal. Ticks only affect animals if they stay on the animal for more than 2 days (they are really large then).

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adult cat tick bite by smallest tick I have ever seen I used tweezers to remove it and think I got it?

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