Heartworm disease is a common and life-threatening cardiovascular disease caused by a worm parasite — Dirofilaria immitis, which is spread by more than two dozen mosquito species. Vets in the ...

Your backyard might seem like a safe space for your dog to roam, but some dangers aren’t easy to see. For small dogs, certain ...

In the last 100 years we have eliminated such diseases as the slobbers, palsy, quincy, the crud and the croup and we didn’t ...

This is the final part of this series. I hope that if you have discovered something new here, it will motivate you to investigate further. Ask your vet.

My vet said that it looked like roundworms but that using the heartworm preventative that I have should have prevented that.

A coal tit perches gracefully on a twig with a fresh worm in its beak, highlighting the natural instinct of survival and the ...

Heartworm disease is caused by the parasite Dirofilaria immitis. It is spread to dogs by mosquitoes and can be fatal. Adult ...

Research led by the University of Sydney is reshaping scientific understanding of one of the world's most widespread canine ...

A dog in the San Fernando Valley was found to have Baylisascaris, or raccoon roundworm, eggs in its system during a routine ...

Racoon roundworm is a parasite that's commonly found in the feces of racoons. Dogs that ingest racoon roundworm eggs could ...