Parasites/Fungal Infections

The cat flea impacts...

One flea can cause a severe allergic reaction in an animal due to: (Choose the best answer)

An adulticide flea medication will kill adults and prevent eggs from hatching into adults

Dawn dishsoap can be used to:

Fleas may lay dormant up to 6 months in the winter time and pop up out of nowhere to begin feeding again...

Your cat has fleas. Because you do not have cat flea medication... you use a dog flea medication that you have for the same weight group. This is acceptable because it uses the same primary ingredient.

Your friend thinks the vet charges too much for flea medication and decides to buy a new flea medication that has no insect growth regulator but does have an adulticide built into it. This product will be suffice to stop the flea infestation.

Fleas can cause this:

Scooping one cat's litter box that has a round worm infection is likely to.. if you scoop a healthy cats litterbox afterwards

Which is commonly used to kill roundworms in a 2 week old kitten?

You have a pregnant cat that has roundworms. Can you safely treat the cat using pyrantel pamoate?

Roundworms are zoonotic and can cause (although rare):

Tapeworms cannot cause seizures because they do not live in the brain.

Fenbendazole (panacur) is generally effective against tapeworms but is least effective against the most common tapeworm, Dipylidium Caninum.

Tapeworms in a two hour fecal sample can be found most effectively by:

Are tapeworms zoonotic?

Praziqauntel is the most preferred ingredient in a drug when treating tapeworm infections

What best indicates a tapeworm infection (best answer)

Panacur must be given for how many days to be effective against tapeworms?

A dog with heartworm infection that is HEAVILY infected should have the worms killed as quickly as possible instead of using the slow kill method.

Which is killed first... the adult heartworms or the baby heartworms (microfilaria)

A dog that is four months old has stepped into your shelter. You notice a horrible looking coat, a small cough, anemia, and lack of energy. You remember seeing a dog with heartworms a couple of months ago that displayed similar signs. The dog has reportedly been outside for weeks in his doghouse with no prevention or medicine of any kind. With this information..which test would most likely come back positive?

Humans can be accidental hosts for heartworm.

What test is used to detect heartworms?

A Labrador retriever has demodex. A staff member touches the dog without remembering to sanitize his hands before touching his own dog that is in the office area. His own dog is likely to catch demodex.

Ringworm in dogs and cats can be identified by

A human can catch ringworm

Earmites can turn into a bacterial or yeast infection

Earmites will go away by themselves

Yeast infections in the ear just like earmites do transmit from cat to cat

Heartworm prevention does what?

Lavender bleach is effective against ringworm like regular smelling bleach is.

Roundworms can be spread via nursing.

A cat catches roundworm today. Will evidence of symptoms and of roundworm infection be seen in 1 week?