A dog covered all over with ticks fell belly up on a Fresno driveway late last week, with the puppy hardly breathing and looking almost dead. “I have never seen a dog with this many ticks,” said ...

Q: I wrote you recently about ticks. The vets I go to identified the gazillions of mites on my six dogs as chiggers. They said that they don't exist in this area, so they were puzzled as to where we ...

Flea saliva that’s injected into the dog when they’re bitten could cause an allergic reaction called flea allergy dermatitis.

A couple of mornings ago, I found raccoon footprints on my new outdoor sauna that sits right next to the stair to ceiling window.  That followed a night of critters […] ...

Can Dogs Get Lyme Disease? Both humans and dogs can get Lyme disease through infection of the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi. The infection spreads through deer tick bites, known as Ixodes scapularis ...

At a more micro level, the top five tick-infested cities in the U.S., in descending order, are New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., according to the report.

A dog found plopped on a Fresno driveway was discovered to have so many ticks all over its body, a dog rescue organization in Los Angeles paid for the vet bill. Courtesy photo The Pug Queen A dog ...

A dog found plopped on a Fresno driveway was discovered to have so many ticks all over its body, a dog rescue organization in Los Angeles paid for the vet bill. Courtesy photo The Pug Queen A dog ...