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Can a dog pass on heartworm to another pet or person? - Advanced Animal Care

Indirectly, yes. It's not like if a dog with heartworm disease touches another dog that they'll instantly pass that heartworm disease. But the adult heartworms are producing larval or baby heartworms. We call that microfilaria that can be picked up by a mosquito and transmitted to another pet.

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If one pet in the household has ticks, will the others get bitten? - Advanced Animal Care

It's possible. Ticks don't discriminate. So once they take a blood meal from one pet and digest that, they may go over to you or another pet for another meal.

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Can my dog still have ticks if there are no signs of them? - Advanced Animal Care

Yeah, sometimes they're tiny and hard to find. So even though you might not see a big, fat, obvious sucker right on your dog’s nose doesn't mean that they're not there.

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What can I look for if I suspect my dog has ticks? - Advanced Animal Care

Looking for the tick itself is going to be a big thing. Making sure that you have your pet on a preventative to try to prevent them, to kill that tick if they do bite your pet is going to be the best thing. But if you're concerned that they may have had a tick and developed a tick-borne disease, then testing at the veterinary hospital would be the way to go.

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Is there a test to diagnose tick-borne diseases? - Advanced Animal Care

There is. We use the IDEX SNAP 4Dx here in the clinic, and it tests for heartworm disease and the common tick-borne diseases that we see in this area. So we commonly use it to also test for heartworm disease.

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