Mountain Home Veterinary Treatment Center
Keep Your Pet Guarded Against Ticks
The warm weather brings a variety of unwanted pests out of their hiding. While Ticks can be found year-round, increased activity is seen in the spring, summer, and fall seasons. Ticks can pose a health risk to your cats and dogs, but prevention is simple and painless.
How easy is it for your pet to pick up a tick? Ticks climb up low-growing vegetation--like grass and weeds--where they wait with their forelegs stretched out for a host animal to pass by. Walking your dog, even in well-kept grounds, is putting your pet at risk for a tick to latch on. The tick then migrates the body to find a suitable place where it will attach and engorge on your pet. Most owners don’t catch ticks on their pet until the tick is fully engorged, which can take between 3 and 11 days. By this time the pet has been fully exposed to any disease the tick may be carrying, such as Lyme disease, Anaplasmosis, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, and Ehrlichiosis. All these diseases can cause infections that require medical attention, and some can even cause severe illness.
The easiest way to prevent a tick infestation is to use a topical flea and tick preventative such as Frontline Plus. Many oral preventatives only protect against fleas and not ticks, so it is important you know the details about your preventative. Frontline Plus is easy to use and does not require a prescription. A monthly dose is applied to the skin between the shoulder blades of your pet. The medication is then absorbed into the skin over the next 72 hours working its way through your pet’s system. It’s that simple.
We recommend a flea and tick preventative year round. Give us a call or stop by today to learn more about some of the great deals we have on Frontline Plus.
Mountain Home Veterinary Treatment Center
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