I found the first tick on my cat last night. I had noticed a bump (like a scab) under his ear, and he’s super fluffy (hence, the name Fluffer-Nudder) and it was hard to see, so I just kind of ignored it. Last night, I found a tick and removed it with tweezers, and flushed it down the toilet. I guess that bump had been caused by a tick, because after I removed the tick, he had a matching bump on his head. Anyways, he’s an indoor cat, but I’ve been taking Fluffer outside now, and training him on a leash, which is obviously how he got the tick. My questions:
Should I be checking him for ticks every day after I bring him inside?
How long should it take the scabs to heal? (I rubbed them with a little ispropyl alcohol and he didn’t mind)
Oh and I think it could possibly be from fleas, but he has a small black dot (about the size of a flea) on his ear, and the area around it is really red. What could that be?

I have two cats. One of my cats has a MAJOR FLEA AND TICK PROBLEM, I mean BAD. I can cleaned and vacuumed my place up to a T twice. Washed them both in a Good Flea and Tick Shampoo that Kills the fleas and ticks for up to 4 weeks. One cat has it WAY WORSE than the other cat. My FIRST CAT has hardly any, but they are still bad, and my SECOND CAT THEY ALL ALL OVER HIM! The first time I bathed my Second cat, his stomach was Black, FULL OF FLEAS!, yeah, I know, totally Gross! Well, I have washed him 3 more times, with the flea and tick shampoo since that time, and then I BOMBED (FOGGED) my Whole Apartment, I used 6 cans, strategically placed in the "more prone" areas as well. Came back and even after that, over 2 wks ago, STILL FLEAS ON HIM AND JUMPING ALL OVER ME, STILL! So after that, I tried the Zodiac Sponge on, NOTHING, and after that, I ordered ADAMS Flea Dip, I first washed both of the cats with the flea shampoo, let them dry off, flea dipped them with ADAMS Flea Dip,
again, let them dry off after flea dipping them, put Frontline on BOTH of them,Vacuumed AND even used a Wet Vac Carpet Cleaner Vacuum to get anything else up from the carpet, opened all of my windows, to dry out my place, it dried with in an hour
Vaccumed AGAIN,the next day, and bombed my aptartment AGAIN, a few days ago!!! OMG, AND there are STILL a Bunch of FLEAS CRAWLING ALL OVER MY CAT!!!
WHY???

AND the last time I vaccummed, I put flea powder (100% Boric Acid (20 Mule Borax), on my carpet and left it there for 24 hours, it is suppose to help Repel fleas and bugs and such!!!!

STILL FLEAS, CRAWLING ALL OVER MY CAT!, AND FLEAS AND TICKS STILL JUMPING ALL OVER ME STILL TOO!!

I LIVE IN A REALLY NICE, VERY CLEAN NEIGHBORHOOD TOO. AND MY APT IS VERY CLEAN,

I ALSO SPRAYED ORANGE OIL ALL OVER THE PERIMETERS OF MY PLACE!!!

FLEAS ON ME!,AND ON MY CAT!!!

HELP!

ANY SUGGESTIONS???
Both of them are indoor cats.

the 2nd cat I got, was from a couple that had a litter of kittens from their older cat, maybe his mom was an outdoor cat and he got them from her? I’ll never really know for sure, but I know I didn’t have this problem Whatsoever when I had my first cat, and I have had her for over a 1 1/2 years. So I’m thinking that’s why they are ALL mainly on him, it just sucks too b/c when I’, sleeping, fleas will jump on me or if I’m sitting down and eating or when I’m on the computer, they will jump in my hair… I have flea bites all over my feet from them biting me, it;s really really Bad.

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few months ago, my cats started to be really itchy, and so did i too, i got little get pimples that itched a lot, but i looked on the internet and they sais that tick bites, when it occured, the tick stayed there and had to be removed, i never saw one of these ticks, they are easily seen, could me and my mom just have been bitten and nothing else, because i never saw one of those anywhere.

ps: i bought some thing to kill the ticks on my cats, but it will take about 3 weeks for them to go away.
but my cats have those red bumps too….can fleas do that too?

They have ticks and they are outdoor cats. we put cream on their middle back that’s supposed to keep them away but it isn’t. i rip off a tick every few days and it’s very frustrating. any ideas how to get rid of them or what to do?