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    • About
      Stewart
      Animal Clinic
    • Payment
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  • Our Services
    • Preventive
      Care
    • Wellness Exams
    • Vaccinations
    • Early Detection Testing
    • Puppy/Kitten And Senior Pet Care
    • Parasite Prevention & Control
    • Nutritional Counseling
    • Pharmacy
    • Microchipping
    • Behavioral Counseling
    • Radiology (X-Rays)
    • General
      Medicine
    • Dental Care
    • Pain Management
    • Surgery
    • Blood Transfusion
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"Improving lives through personalized care. We treat you like family and each patient like our own pet."

"Improving lives through personalized care. We treat you like family and each patient like our own pet."

"Improving lives through personalized care. We treat you like family and each patient like our own pet."

Parasite Prevention and Control

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Stewart Animal Clinic wants you to know that here in Warrior - flea, tick, heartworm & other worm and parasite control is a year-round problem and prevention is a necessity for keeping your pets safe and comfortable. Parasites are not just a nuisance to you and your pets - some may cause serious illness in your pets and even your family and even can be fatal for pets.

Parasites that can affect your dog or cat include:

  • Heartworms - parasites that can live in your pet’s heart and lungs

  • External parasites - fleas and ticks

  • Intestinal parasites - hookworms, roundworms, tapeworms, and whipworms

Heartworm Prevention

It takes one bite from an infected mosquito to break your pet's heart! One infected mosquito is all it takes to infect your dog with the baby form (larval stage) of the heartworm parasite.

Heartworms are a serious and potentially fatal disease in pets. Twelve-inch-long worms (look like spaghetti) live in the heart, lungs and blood vessels of infected pets, causing lung disease, heart failure, organ damage and can be fatal if untreated.

How does my pet get heartworms?

Heartworms living in an infected dog, cat or wildlife produce baby worms that circulate in the bloodstream. When a mosquito bites an infected animal, it picks up these worms and when it bites another animal, the worms enter through the bite wound. Heartworms can grow and live for 5 - 7 years in dogs and 3 years in cats.

How prevalent is heartworm disease?

Heartworm disease is a year-round problem. In our area, 1 in 10 dogs tested positive for heartworms.

What can I do to protect my pet?

Heartworm disease is preventable! Dogs should be tested annually and before starting prevention. Provide heartworm prevention 12 months of the year. Prevention is the safest and most cost-effective option, but treatment is available for dogs (although costly and lengthy). Cats should be tested before starting prevention and re-tested as the veterinarian deems appropriate. There is NO treatment in cats, so prevention is critical and the only means of protection.

Stewart Animal Clinic has safe, effective products available that cater to you and your pet's lifestyle and budget. Heartworm prevention should be provided 12 months of the year - we have an option for an injection every six months to help you with not having to remember to administer monthly.

Fleas, Ticks & Intestinal Parasites

You may not always be able to tell if your pet has parasites. Fleas can hide under your pet’s fur, and some ticks are very tiny (only the size of a pinhead), so they are very difficult to find. Intestinal parasites like roundworms can cause diarrhea and other problems, but many infected pets don’t show any signs of illness at all. Ticks can transmit infections like Lyme disease, and fleas can transmit tapeworms and Bartonella – the bacteria that causes “cat-scratch fever” in humans.

We will examine your pet for evidence of fleas, ticks or other parasites during their preventative care exam and may recommend testing to see if your pet has parasites. We have the right medications to help control fleas, ticks and intestinal parasites in our pharmacy.

Parasites are not just a nuisance. They can carry serious diseases that affect your pet’s overall health and longevity. Let us help you protect your pet. Call 205-351-0400 today to find out how!

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