When taking your pet for a winter walk, it's important to check your friend for critters, becauseticksandfleascan survive in cold weather, although activity may slow down. Black-legged ticks spend most of their time under forest leaves, where they are protected from...
Unlike ticks, which are famous for causing Lyme disease in dogs and people, fleas don’t seem all that threatening. However, fleas can transmit a surprising number of diseases to animals and humans. Here are four you need to be aware of.
We believe the Holocaust is an extremely important historical event humanity must learn from if it is to survive let alone achieve world peace. It’s not just a Jewish issue – it’s a human one. If more recent genocides in Rwanda, Cambodia and the former Yugoslavia are any guide, the ...
If nothing else, know this: in the quiet of the morning, in the still of the night, in the solitude of being separated from you, I want you to know beyond a shadow of a doubt how much I love you. One inevitable tomorrow will be the last that we will share and when that day com...
Awareness of where you've been and what's been circulating in your area can help a doctor make the diagnosis, she said. And while rats may have spread the plague through Europe, prairie dogs also harbor the fleas that carry the plague virus — "it lives quite happily" among them, ...