Yes, depending on the area you live will depend how common it is. But a dog can get a tick or flee anytime of the year. If you are taking your pet to forests or mountains (or farms) it's important to always check your pup over.
About 30% of people who sustain the tick bites actually acquire the Lyme disease.
Yes, if it is a deer tick it can carry several different diseases.
A speckle (dot).
well if the tick or where the tick was looks like a target that means you can get limes diseas =0
They hibernate in winter
deer tick
There is a type of tick called the paralysis tick that if it bites an animal and clings on for too long, it will paralys the animal
A tick bite is a bug bite. Tick bites hurt a lot. Other bites tend to itch. I found my tick & bite because it itched a lot. It is a tick bite if there is a tick on it although baby ticks can be as small as a piece of pepper. ICK!
About.com and any official medical sites like cdc.gov will give you accurate information on tick bites. Photos, videos, diagrams, etc. should be on those sites as well.
Paratism, in which the dog would be the host and the tick would be the parasite, because it depends on the dogs blood.
yes
It is very possible you received a tick bite. Tick bites stand out from other insect bites because it looks like a bull's eye meaning you will have a red bump with a rash forming around the bite itself, if you think you may have been bitten by a tick I recommend seeing a Doctor very soon.