If your dog is spending a lot of time outside or in the woods, maybe in fields with tall grass or things like that, and they're not on prevention, ...
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There are a lot. I'll just go through some of the most common ones....
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We get that question a lot. It depends on what you call pink eye....
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Generally speaking, no. If you have a severe tick infestation and you have to manually peel ticks off, that could get uncomfortable....
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Definitely—mostly the ticks; depending on which tick it is and where you live, you will see Lyme ticks even in January, even in the snow....
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No, they're not painful for your pet, but what might be more painful are some of the secondary things we see from fleas and ticks like skin infecti...
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That's a tricky one to answer because there are so many medical conditions that can happen to a dog....
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Not at all. I have a chocolate lab myself, and whenever I give him his flea and tick preventative, he thinks it's the best treat ever.
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Yes. Any pet can pick up fleas; any pet can have fleas....
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Yes. We can completely treat and cure your dog of all intestinal parasites.
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Baseline diagnostic images are basically just what it says. It gives us the baseline of what is normal versus what may be abnormal....
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Sure, they go in hand in hand. One of the frustrating syndromes we deal with is called lick granulomas, where dogs focus on an area....
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Can dogs get cavities? The short answer, yes. The long answer, very infrequently. Dog's teeth are shaped differently than ours....
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Flea allergy dermatitis, fortunately, is becoming a lesser concern for us because flea products nowadays are so good....
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Not necessarily. So, perhaps if people haven't seen......
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It's a pretty simple, straightforward diagnostic. We collect some stool, whether you bring it here or we collect it in-house....
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Worms inside your dog can last for quite some time, especially without showing any symptoms....
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We don't want to use human toothpaste because the dogs will be ingesting the toothpaste when we put it on their teeth, and human toothpaste can be ...
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As far as tapeworms go, they often come from a dog ingesting a flea. Not all fleas carry them, but some fleas do carry tapeworm eggs....
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Yeah. Regular deworming is what we recommend, and the CDC recommends it....