The dog is now recovering after a blood transfusion and is looking for a foster home A dog is finally getting the chance to ditch the hundreds of dangerous parasites that have been plaguing him. On ...

After taking his dog for a short walk down a path at the back of his house, a man in Stone Ridge, New York, made a shocking discovery. "I looked down and saw my shoes and jeans covered in ticks," the ...

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 tick found on a bird dog in Montana could forewarn of Lyme disease spreading into the state. A Bozeman-based hunter recently alerted local health officials in the state to a tick that he found on ...

Tick season begins: How to protect yourself and your pets ...

Every year, Sam Telford is asked the same question. "How bad will this year's tick season be?" Telford, a professor of infectious diseases and global health at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine ...