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If your pet spends time outdoors, it could be helping an invasive species spread—and you might not realize it until a slimy hitchhiker shows up in your home. Researchers have found that invasive ...

When a cat owner in southern France noticed a slender, striped worm clinging to her pet’s belly fur after an evening outdoors ...

Dear Dr. Fox: A year ago, I decided to take care of a stray cat in my backyard. When I saw him running around with a piece of bread I had thrown out for the birds, I knew there was a problem. I would ...

Now that warmer weather is here, so are mosquitoes. And with mosquitoes comes the risk that your dog - or cat - could get heartworm disease. Mosquito-borne heartworm is deadly, but entirely ...

When Endless Thread producer Nora Saks learns that a "toxic, self-cloning worm that poops out of its mouth is invading Maine", she starts sounding the alarm about the impending eco-doom. Until, that ...

Northeast pet owners are confident about pet health information, but how much do they actually know? While owners in the Northeast regions believe they know more than owners in the rest of the U.S., ...