Potentially, yes. Tick paralysis is loss of muscle function from a tick bite, usually a female tick, and primarily affects children. The tick attaches to feed on blood and during feeding toxins enter the child's bloodstream. The child will develop an unsteady gait due to weakness in the lower extremities. This weakness will eventually make it's way up into the abdomen and upper extremities. Flu like symptoms can develop and there can be breathing difficulties. Finding the tick and removing it will remove the source of the toxins and recovery from tick paralysis is fast.

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

They show when you have just a smallish rash, the size of a dime shows on the body. then your muscle will tighten up and shut down. If the paralysis tick gets to the lungs or heart muscle, they will shut down and you will die. Hope i helped ^_^

Thyroid cancer, tick paralysis, trichinosis, tuberculosis (TB) and typhoid fever are diseases. They begin with the letter t.

Your dalmatian needs to be taken to the vet as soon as possible. It could be any number of things, but this is symptomatic of paralysis tick poisoning.