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At Teegarden Veterinary Clinic, we believe that prevention is the key to a long, healthy life for your pet....

We are proud to serve Grants Pass and surrounding communities in Josephine County....

If you want to treat intestinal parasites, do things like making sure that you pick up the feces in your dog's yard so that if they did have a para...

There are lots of NSAIDs out there. I would say that we stay away from human medications for dogs....

Parasites have learned how to live on the pet for their entire lives....

As far as giving the medication, there are many little helpful treats out there. There are pill pockets, the type that will mold around the treat....

They're never going to go away on their own. Fleas are just going to bite you and your dog. They're going to replicate. They're going to lay eggs....

Absolutely....

Some can be serious and life-threatening. Most of them will not go away on their own....

We have a combination of oral medication and topical medications....

It depends on which parasite you're talking about. Suppose it's fleas, for sure. Any of the animals, including people, can get fleas on them....

We calculate the dose, usually by body weight, and then we figure out how long the pet needs it....

It depends on what parasite you're treating....

There are all kinds of anecdotes out there made of brewers yeast and essential oils. I don't know; there are just tons of them out there....

You generally do....

If it's intestinal parasites, there's going to be a medication that we give orally that will kill that roundworm, hookworm, whipworm, or tapeworm....

I'd say no....

Yeah, we want everybody in the household - every dog and cat - on some type of preventative or some kind of medication to make sure that the dogs a...

There are doggy NSAIDs, which are different from human NSAIDs....

If your dog has fleas, they can carry them in the house, and the fleas might bite you as well....