Heartworm
There are two broad categories of worms that may affect our pet dogs and cats, heartworm and intestinal worms. Please see our intestinal worms page for more information.
Heartworm is a parasite that is spread by mosquitoes, so your pet does not even need to be in contact with other pets to become infected.
Heartworm has a complicated life cycle. Infected dogs have microfilaria, an immature form of heartworm, circulating in their bloodstream. Microfilariae are sucked up