by Dexter Animal Hospital | Cat Care, Dog Care
Whether your pet is a couch potato or spends most of their time outside, they need to be treated monthly for heartworm. The weather is starting to warm-up here in Michigan. If you choose to administer heartworm preventative only during mosquito season, you may want to...
by Dexter Animal Hospital | Cat Care, Dog Care
Spring is finally here; time to have your pet in for their annual heart worm test. Why should you have your dog or cat tested? Heart worm disease is passed on through mosquitoes, which can affect your dog whether it’s an indoor or outdoor pet. All it would take is one...
by Dexter Animal Hospital | Cat Care, Dog Care, Fleas & Ticks
Ticks- What’s the harm? Its summer and ticks seem to be everywhere. We have had more pets brought in for the removal of ticks than usual. If you decide to remove the tick on your own, carefully grasp the tick with a tweezers and gently remove pulling as straight as...
by Dexter Animal Hospital | Cat Care, Dog Care
The original quote is “ A tired Lab is a happy Lab”. Since we feel all pets need exercise, we also believe that good exercise helps with good health. As you can see, the puppies in our picture are really happy. We all know that with summer heat some exercise...
by Dexter Animal Hospital | Dog Care
A dog’s dew claw is like a thumb or big toe except it has no purpose. It typically grows a few inches up from the pad and does not touch the ground. We see occasional problems with torn or infected dew claws, but technically you do not need to have dew claws removed....
