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Wildlife carry disease that can be
transmitted to your dog and to you.
Roundworms:
Patients can get Roundworm through
contact with fecal matter. It is fairly
innocuous to dogs but dogs give it to
people and it can cause blindness and
brain disease. This preventative disease
affects 10,000 children per year in
America.
Heartworms:
Heartworms are endemic in our local
coyote population. They are transmitted
through mosquitos. Mosquitos have been
thriving in our recent wet weather. Patient
will show no clinical signs until the
disease is severe. Heartworms are easily
prevented but treatment is dangerous,
expensive and painful.
Lepto:
Lepto is a spirochete bacteria that lives in
the soil where wildlife potty and burrows
thru the feet of animals walking by.
Leptospirosis causes kidney failure. It
used to be bundled in the
Distemper/Parvo vaccine but is now given
separately. Be sure your animals is
protected.
Rattlesnakes:
Rattlesnakes can attack anyone – people
or dogs; However, we have a vaccine that
stimulates your dog’s own immunity
response which can save a life because
every rattlesnake bite is an emergency
race against time.
transmitted to your dog and to you.
Roundworms:
Patients can get Roundworm through
contact with fecal matter. It is fairly
innocuous to dogs but dogs give it to
people and it can cause blindness and
brain disease. This preventative disease
affects 10,000 children per year in
America.
Heartworms:
Heartworms are endemic in our local
coyote population. They are transmitted
through mosquitos. Mosquitos have been
thriving in our recent wet weather. Patient
will show no clinical signs until the
disease is severe. Heartworms are easily
prevented but treatment is dangerous,
expensive and painful.
Lepto:
Lepto is a spirochete bacteria that lives in
the soil where wildlife potty and burrows
thru the feet of animals walking by.
Leptospirosis causes kidney failure. It
used to be bundled in the
Distemper/Parvo vaccine but is now given
separately. Be sure your animals is
protected.
Rattlesnakes:
Rattlesnakes can attack anyone – people
or dogs; However, we have a vaccine that
stimulates your dog’s own immunity
response which can save a life because
every rattlesnake bite is an emergency
race against time.
| Parkview Veterinary Hospital |
| 571 E. Franklin St, Suite C Monterey, CA 93940 (831) 372-2672 |
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