Preventing parasites isn't only about providing a lifetime of wellness for your special companion, it is also preventing the spread of disease to you and your family!
These parasites have been annoying us and our pets since the dawn of time. Not only can the saliva from their bites cause skin irritations, itchiness, and allergic reactions, but they are responsible for transmitting some of the most debilitating, even deadly, diseases that can make our companion animals sick.
Preventing these parasites is tantamount in providing your pet with complete preventative health coverage. You would be alleviating the itchiness and irritation associated with biting, since many of these producs also REPEL these parasites AND you will be preventing the transmission of Heartworm Disease, Lyme Disease, Anaplasmosis, and Ehrlichosis BECAUSE a parasite has to feed upon your pet in order to pass these diseases on. If they can't bite your pet, they can't feed, and therefore, cannot transmit these potentially fatal diseases. To learn more about these deadly diseases, click on a tab at the left of this page.
Even if your pet is primarily an indoor animal, fleas, ticks, mosquitoes, and biting flies find ways into our homes, where what is comfortable for us makes optimal living, and reproductive, conditions for them. Due to our temperate climate, our Long Island location does not experience cold enough winters to provide a "freeze out" of these tenatious critters. And because we like our houses warm, those parastites taking refuge indoors never experience any chill at all. It would be doing yourself, and especially your pet, a huge disservice to believe in the fallacy that you don't need to use a flea, tick, mosquitoe, or biting fly preventative during the "winter" months. Veterinarians at Suffolk Veterinary Group Animal Wellness and Laser Surgery Center highly recommend and encourage all our clients to provide their pets with fea, tick, mosquitoe, and biting fly prevetative on a monthly basis...ALL YEAR ROUND!
The Suffolk Veterinary Group VetStoreRx Online pharmacy can provide for you the flea and tick prevenative you want all with the convenience of home delivery and competitive pricing. Click on the VetStoreRx link here, or the tab to the left to sign-up for our online pharmacy services.
This is one situtation where an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. These monthly preventatives cannot treat for adult heartworms, and if are given to a pet with an adult heartworm infestation, can cause heart attacks and respitory arrest! That's why the doctors of Suffolk Veterinary Group Animal Wellness and Laser Surgery Center REQUIRE your pet to have an Annual Heartworm Disease Screenings at our clinic before prescribing any heartworm preventative use. Don't think your pet can catch this disease? Think again. In 2008 alone, three Suffolk Veterinary Group canine patients came up positive on their Annual Heartworm Disease Screenings!! That's three too many for us! Click on the "Heartworm Lifecycle" link or the tab above to learn more.
Click on our VetStoreRx Online Pharmacy link here to see what medications may be best for your pet in preventing heartworm disease.
There are a host of parasitic worms, collectively known as intestinal parasties, that can be transmitted to your pet through a variety of environmental conditions. The worst part is, these worms are also transmissible to you and your family!
Proper hygine for you, your family, and your pet, is the best method to make sure these parasites are not spread. Always pick-up after your pet, and scoop litter boxes daily. Always wash your hands after such activities, and always wash hands before a meal. Keep your pet clean as well with bathing and having them groomed at least once a month, and more often if your pet enjoys such activities as digging, or playing in wooded areas.
If you suspect your pet may have an intestinal parasite, Veterinarians at Suffolk Veterinary Group Animal Wellness and Laser Surgery Center would need a fresh sample of your pet's poop. Many of these worms can be identified by microscopic analysis of the sample, and knowing which parasites your pet has will help the doctors prescribe the right treatment to relieve your pet of these worms. Annual Fecal Parasite Screenings during your pet's Comprehensive Wellness Exam are a great way to determine whether your parasite preventative methods are doing the job of protecting your family from intestinal parastites.
If you are already using a flea, tick, mosquitoe, and biting fly preventitive, AND a heartworm preventative medication, once a month, year round, then you are also providing your pet with protection against some of these intestinal parasites.
Our VetStoreRx Online Pharmacy can assist you with ordering your prescription medication for your special companion.
