Health Alert: Deer Ticks

Health Alert:  We are recently seeing deer ticks on pets at a much greater frequency than we have in past years. These ticks are much, much smaller than the ticks that most people are familiar with, so please click on the accompanying links and learn how to recognize them on your pets and human family members. We also felt it important to alert you because these ticks appear in late fall after the larger types of ticks have already subsided and many people have stopped using a tick preventative. Deer ticks can carry Lyme disease which infects pets and people, so please talk to your veterinarian about what prevention is the best for your pet.

Basic Information on Ticks:
http://www.ahna.net/blog/ticks-101-basic-information-every-pet-owner-should-know

Photos of deer ticks:
http://www.oes.org/html/how_2_identify_different_ticks.html

Other informative links:
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/notes/Urban/ticks.htm
http://www.cdc.gov/ticks/geographic_distribution.html