Learn essential steps to safely remove a tick from your dog, prevent infections, and ensure your pet's health and comfort.

Pet owners are always very conscientious about any health problems their animals pick up in case it leads to something more ...

Fleas and ticks are tiny parasites that cause big problems for dogs, from bites that make a dog's skin itchy to the transmission of diseases like Lyme disease and tapeworms. The best flea and tick ...

To extract blood, ticks use their sharp, scissor-like appendages to cut a hole in your dog's skin and then insert a small, barbed, straw-like structure. The tick also excretes saliva that prevents ...

“Heads up” is exactly how we want our ticks to be, Claire! Heads down mean those nasty little creatures are firmly implanted in the skin of and people and animals ... groundhog tick, American dog tick ...