Tips to keep your pet safe and healthy this summer

• Provide plenty of fresh drinking water at all times
• Avoid excessive exercise during hot weather months. Over-exertion can cause heat stress or stroke. Watch for symptoms such as collapse, extremely heavy panting, or excessive drooling. If you suspect heat stress or stroke, wet your pet thoroughly with cool (not cold) water by immersion or spray your pet with a garden hose and call your veterinarian immediately.
• The temperature inside a car can easily reach 120 degrees when a vehicle is parked in the summer sun. Never leave your pet unattended in a vehicle. 
• Use monthly flea, tick, and heartworm preventives year-round. It's much easier and cheaper to prevent parasites than to treat once your pet is infested or infected. To discourage parasite breeding, keep your yard free of feces, clean up leaf litter, trim bushes and trees, and dump any standing water.
• Poisons that kill common pests can be lethal to pets, too, if ingested. Limit your pet's access to places where these poisons are stored or used. Also, lawn herbicides can be poisonous. Keep your pet out of the yard while spraying herbicides and off the grass for three days afterward. Washing pet's paws with soap and cool water before entering the house will help to remove herbicidal residue.
• Keep your pet's kennel well-ventilated and positioned near a well-shaded area where your pet can avoid the midday sun and heat.  

         Enjoy the summer and please call us if

       you have any questions or concerns.

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