For the long-term health and wellbeing of your pet and your family, it is essential that you routinely use proven, preventative treatments against the most common parasites throughout your pet’s life. Remember that prevention is much easier and cost effective than cure.
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Two general types of parasite need to be controlled for our pets’ sakes as well as for public health concerns:
- Endoparasites: the internal ‘worms’ including various roundworms, tapeworms, whipworms and hookworms. Each has a different life-cycle and can cause a variety of problems.
- Ectoparasites: live on or near the skin surface and cause problems such as skin irritation and allergies or can carry diseases and other infections. Control is thus vital for the well being of our pets.
Worm control
Dogs: The individual’s life-style along with its age of your dog will influence how often they need to be treated. A variety of medications can be recommended depending on how easy your pet is to medicate and what would be best suited to its individual circumstances. Our Vets and Nurses can advise you.
Cats: The worming programme is also ideally each month but also depends on an individual’s life-style and what flea control is used. Veterinary advice is always available. See our cat worming factsheet.
Flea control
A number of excellent products are now available to control these most irritating of unwelcome visitors. Some drugs will also contribute to the control of other ectoparasites (e.g. ticks, mites) and some help control endoparasites (e.g. roundworms).
Looking at the individual’s life style, temperament and risk level helps us decide on which product best suits that pet. We have a range of possible products including: sprays, drops onto the skin, injections, tablets and effective collars. As central heating and mild winters make fleas a year-round problem, treatment is needed throughout an animal’s life.
Please call in or book your appointment here. to discuss which method would best suit you and your pet.
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Hazards in our local community in Bracknell
Fleas, worms and other parasites can be caught at parks local to Moor Cottage Veterinary Hospital.
Parks are a breeding ground for parasites, especially in the warmer months from April to October. As a pet owner, you do not want to deprive your beloved pet of the chance to make friends, and you certainly do not want to limit the opportunity to be outside. But, if it seems like all the other pets are itching, scratching and playing with slugs and other parasite carriers, what is a pet owner to do?
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Don’t live in fear of parasites, every year we help hundreds of pet owners just like yourself have a parasite free pet. Not only will you save money in veterinary costs but you will give your pet the quality of life they deserve.