Wherever you live in the UK, your pet could pick up ticks. These parasites live not only in rural areas but in urban parks and gardens too.
They find a host, such as your cat or dog, by ‘questing' – waving their forelimbs in the air – at the tip of vegetation.
As an animal brushes past, ticks transfer to them and attach themselves by biting through the animal’s skin and cementing themselves
in place.
