In a national survey of ticks on dogs and cats, more than 23 percent of dogs were infested with lone star ticks . Year-round tick and flea control can help guard your dog against tick-borne diseases.

Learn more Fleas and ticks are common parasites that can cause several health issues for dogs, including skin irritation and infections, anemia (especially in puppies), tapeworm infection ...

Tick collars protect dogs from nasty eight-legged, disease-carrying ticks and may also repel or kill other bothersome critters like fleas and lice. These collars can protect your dog from tick ...

Wyoming entomologists say ticks are beginning to come out and are warning about two new species that are particularly awful.

BILLINGS — A Bozeman hunter’s bird dog has alerted health officials to the possibility that the tick that carries Lyme disease — the most common disease spread by ticks in the United States, estimated ...

Ticks cover the ears and back of this dog in Mexico, where the disease has become an urban epidemic in some areas.

Rocky Mountain spotted fever is a bacterial infection spread by biting ticks to humans and dogs. Found on every continent ...

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever/ Rickettsia (RMSF) Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever/Rickettsia (RMSF) is most often transmitted by the American dog tick in the Eastern, Central and Western United States; by ...

In the fall of 2023, a tick was found on a bird dog after a hunting trip near Richey in Dawson County, eastern Montana. While ...

Scientists at Montana State University’s Department of Microbiology and Cell Biology are working to develop a better vaccination for Lyme disease.

Sports Outdoors Ticks carrying Lyme disease may have infiltrated Montana; found on bird dog March 7, 2025 Updated Fri., March 7, 2025 at 6:34 p.m. Common wood tick (Dermacentor andersoni), left ...