Tag Archives: heartworm

Ivermectin: An Important Veterinary Medication

Woman smiles with her dog

April is Heartworm Awareness Month, and I think it’s a good time to talk about ivermectin. As you may recall, ivermectin was all over the news during the height of the pandemic as an unproven treatment for COVID-19. Most people had never heard of this drug, however many dog owners have ivermectin in their kitchen

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Get Your Dog a Heartworm Test This Spring

A dog stares at a mosquito

Here in the Northeastern United States, warmer weather means mosquitoes. The buzz around mosquitoes occurs because mosquitoes transmit heartworms. Dogs become infected with heartworms when an infected mosquito bites a dog. Heartworm larvae migrate through the skin homing in on the blood vessels of the lungs. Here the heartworms mature and reproduce, clogging pulmonary vessels

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What’s On the Mind of Pet Owners?

A recent survey of both pet owners and veterinarians interrogated the pet health issues each group thought were most important. In last week’s post, I discussed the issues from the veterinarian’s point of view. In this blog I will write from the pet owner’s point of view. Pet owners said they were primarily concerned with

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