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 ...

Woodbridge’s regional animal control officer ended up covered in ticks after helping to save a dog in a wooded area of ...

SAN ANTONIO — Three puppies were found abandoned, cold and wet, and covered in ticks, in a drainage ditch last Tuesday. City of San Antonio Animal Care Services officers were out helping folks during ...

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 ...

Did you know? Ticks are not insects. As eight-legged arachnids, they can slow their bodies down in the cold and become active ...

The Marshfield Clinic Research Institute provides a free kit for people to submit samples for a study on ticks and tick-borne ...

It's fairly common for members of the public to ask bug experts if ticks that hitchhike into a house on people or dogs can ...