Fleas transmit tapeworms in cats. The cat has to ingest the fleas, so you don't have to have a severe infestation of fleas to have a problem....
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Once you suspect that your cat has intestinal parasites, isolate them so that they're not sharing a litter box because cats sharing litter boxes ar...
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The biggest thing that you can do is to have all animals in your home on effective flea prevention, making sure they're on that year-round, even du...
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That's a tricky question....
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Flea control. Can I give you a two-word answer? Flea control. You control it accurately for fleas. And they won't get tapeworms that way....
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They're quite common....
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X-rays... Broken bones, intestinal obstructions, bladder stones, things like that. Those are what I think... Dentistry....
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Yeah. There's a couple of parasites that are quite scary....
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The most common way in cats is from ingestion of fleas....
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Healthy Paws Animal Hospital was purposely designed to deliver a client and patient experience like no other veterinary hospital....
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Yes and no. It depends on what eye issue we're looking at....
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If you suspect there's an eye issue, have it seen. Make sure of what you're dealing with....
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I do believe so, yes.
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As the name somewhat implies, diagnostic imaging provides images that are used to help us attain a diagnosis. It's as simple as that....
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Tapeworm is transmitted by fleas and flea dirt and flea eggs, so we want to keep fleas 100% under control, and therefore your cat will not pick up ...
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Worms are fairly common. Tapeworms are the most common worms we see in cats....
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We use medications that help reduce the magnitude of parasites with reasonable confidence....
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Unfortunately, yeah. Roundworms and hookworms are what we call zoonotic, meaning that they are passable to humans....
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There are different medications that you can use as prevention, but there are also medications that we use to treat them.
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