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There are many barriers, whether real or perceived, to providing preventive care and treating many common ailments in cats. Clients may be wary of seeking wellness care after they've experienced a high stress veterinary visit. Furthermore, they may worry it will be next to impossible to get their cat to comply with any at home preventive or therapeutic medication. What if we could make this experience completely different for both the patient and the client? This presentation will walk you through how to make your wellness visits and prescribed treatments not just better, but enjoyable for your feline patients. Learn tips and tricks from a behaviorist's point of view on how to keep your feline patients content and compliant with all of their wellness care and keep your clients coming back for more.

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On this week's episode of The Vet Blast Podcast, Brooke Moore, VMD, and Peter Weinstein, DVM, MBA, join host Adam Christman, DVM, MBA, to chat about the scary threats to patients: parasites. The 3 doctors discuss all things parasites including how they are spread, the importance of prevention, and studies talking about the threats these monsters have on the clients as we prepare for spooky season. 

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I'll tell you, this is going to sound weird, but I am extremely passionate about parasites. Honestly, they're fascinating creatures, but I'm even more passionate about protecting our pets from them and the first thing I will say is that parasites are gross. Have you ever had an owner say, 'Oh, I'm cool with my dog having worms?' No, that's not going to happen. People don't like their pets to have worms and so, unfortunately, it's super simple for our pets to become infected with these parasites. It could be as simple as them going outside in the backyard to do their business in the morning and they're chugging along and they ingest a parasite egg, and our nematodes are usually going to infect our pets that way. So think about your whipworm, your hookworm, your roundworm, and those suckers traveling through the GI tract and they wreak havoc. Can you say diarrhea, right? I know no one wants to come home from a long day at work to find that in their household. 

Other parasites are a little more complicated, like the tapeworm, which requires an intermediate host like a flea, they need a friend right, they need somebody to help them get into our pets. And then the ectoparasites have it pretty easy, right? It can be as simple for them to hitch a ride on your pet when they go outside or go to your friend's apartment, or anything along those lines. So unfortunately, our pets are under constant attack, Adam and so that's why we're here today.

Dr Peter Weinstein and Dr Brooke Moore sit down with Dr Adam Christman to talk about the parasites that are harming patients and clients

Warding off the monsters that plague pets

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Dogs are at risk of infection and infestation from a broad array of parasites. In this podcast we discuss the importance of broad spectrum parasite control to protect the health of dogs, including internal parasites like heartworm, roundworms, hookworms, whipworms, and tapeworms, and external parasites like fleas and ticks. Many of these parasite pose a zoonotic risk but all can be controlled by implementing comprehensive, 360-degree protection.

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3. We have great preventives. Why do we still have heartworm disease?

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In the latest episode of The Vet Blast Podcast, Byron L. Blagburn MS, PhD, DACVM Hon (Parasitology), explores heartworm preventive treatments and explains why veterinary professionals need to stress to pet owners the importance of taking premptive action. 

Speaking on the trends in prevalance of heartworm, Blagburn said: "You would have thought that heartworm would go away, wouldn't you? We've got all these excellent preventives. Our diagnostic tests have improved. Certainly, we've tried and succesfully have increased awareness, but the fact of the matter, Adam, is that, no, it hasn't gone away. The more we look, the more [heartworm] we find."

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Byron L. Blagburn MS, PhD, DACVM Hon (Parasitology), shares the latest heartworm trends and dives into the nuances of various preventives on this episode of The Vet Blast Podcast with Adam Christman, DVM, MBA.

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