Your pet is at risk for many parasites and small insects. Common parasites like ticks, fleas and heartworm carrying mosquitos feed on your pets, potentially infecting them with many dangerous diseases. 

Fleas

Fleas can become a big problem quickly, both on your dog and in your home. Female fleas can begin laying eggs within 20-24 hours of their first blood meal and can lay up to 50 eggs in one day. Flea infestations often spread throughout your home living in your carpet and furniture and making them tough to eradicate.

Ticks

Ticks are more than just creepy; they can spread a number of different diseases that affect both pets and people. And each year, thousands of dogs become infected with serious diseases transmitted by a number of different ticks. Ticks can transmit Lyme disease, Ehrlichia, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, anaplasmosis, tularemia, and babesia. 

Heartworm

Heartworm-carrying mosquitos represent a lethal danger to your pet. The mosquito’s bite transmits the heartworm larva to your animal, it then slowly develops over many months and makes its toward the heart. Once there it multiples within your pet’s pulmonary artery and right ventricle, leading to constricted blood flow, heart and lung disease and major organ failure. This is a very easy disease to prevent however treatment is difficult.

Parasite Prevention Plan

Regular use of anti-parasitic medication is a proven way of keeping your pet parasite free. Dr. Aris will help you to come up with a parasite prevention plan tailored to you pet. 

Our Preferred Parasite Preventatives:

Advantage Multi For Cats:  “ Prevention is Vital”

We all know how awful and harmful a flea infestation can be for both you and your pets, and that’ s why we here at Southern Hills Vet Hospital can not stress enough the importance of proper prevention. Advantage multi for cats protects our feline friends from harmful parasites such as heartworm, fleas, hookworms, roundworms, and ear mites. Now that’ s impressive! Advantage multi is easy to apply too. Available in the convenient form of a topical applicator, Advantage multi is as easy as 1-2-3 to apply, and only needs to be applied once a month. For those of you who are nervous about how to apply the topical prevention do not worry, your box of advantage multi comes with directions on how to apply, and as always, the friendly staff here at Southern Hills Vet Hospital will be more than happy to answer any of your Advantage Multi related questions.

Vectra 3D: “ There’ s a name for dogs without fast-acting protection from hungry parasites. . . Dinner”

There’ s nothing like petting your dog and feeling the nasty lump of an engorged tick! It gives you goose bumps just thinking about doesn’ t it? Luckily for all of us, there is a way to keep hungry ticks, as well as fleas and other nasty parasites off our beloved dogs. Ticks are most active during the spring and fall months, and that’ s why it’ s more important now than ever to give your dog the prevention it needs. Along with preventing your dog from fleas and ticks, Vectra 3D also prevents your pet from contracting diseases passed on by mosquitoes, sand flies, lice and mites. Now that’ s “ mite-y” impressive! Just like advantage multi for cats, Vectra 3D also comes in an easy-to-apply topical solution, which is administered monthly. You don’ t need special 3D glasses to see that Vectra 3D is the serious 6 way solution for all your parasitic problems!

Seresto Collar: “The new alternative to topicals”

With its innovative delivery system, Seresto™ offers a breakthrough in flea and tick protection for dogs or cats for eight months.

Features and benefits:

• For dogs or cats
• Kills fleas
• Repels and kills ticks
• If a tick is repelled or killed, it can’t attach and
  transmit the organisms that may cause disease
• Non-greasy, odorless, easy-to-use

 

Roadrunner Pharmacy: Custom Parasite Prevention:

Southern Hills Veterinary Hospital has partnered with Roadrunner Pharmacy
to provide you with completely customizable parasite prevention, with a guarantee,
at an affordable cost. Some of the benefits of this new partnership are:

•    Individually tailored to your pets weight and intestinal parasite prevention needs.
•    Guaranteed by the pharmacy.
•    Especially cost effective for dogs 100-200lbs.
•    Only $10 more per year for tapeworm prevention.
•    Keep your family safe from zoonotic parasites.
•    Shipped free with toy for your animal to your home within ten days of ordering.
•    A full years worth of prevention purchased at one time and sent to your house.
•    Given monthly to keep your dog free of common parasites that may adversely affect his or her health.
•    Gives protection from heartworm, roundworm, hookworm, whipworm and\or tapeworms.

Credelio: “Tick and Fleas Can Turn my World Upside Down”

Ticks and fleas can upset you and your dog’s routine. Credelio^®(lotilaner) kills ticks and fleas fast, is well tolerated and lasts all month long to protect the dog you love.

Features and benefits:

• For dogs
• Kills fleas and ticks
• Easy to give beef flavored tablet