Here it is again, cuterebra (cute-a-ree-bra) season. This is the time of year when my personal favorite clinical entity rears its not-so-cute little head on dogs and cats and rabbits around town.The ...

CIRCLE PINES, Minn. — On a hot day in August, my champion Bichon Frisés were basking in the sun on my deck, barking intermittently at people in the yard, playing and acting normal. They enjoy a very ...

In last week's column we discussed reasons you might want to keep your cat strictly indoors. Well, here is another one: the Cuterebra botfly. Cuterebra is a type of botfly that lays its eggs around ...

Larvae of the rodent botfly, Cuterebra fontinella, follow a consistent migration route through their natural host, the white-footed mouse, Peromyscus leucopus. Larvae that enter the eye or nares spend ...

We had a stray cat adopt us recently. When cleaning her up, we noticed she had a sore place on her skin that she had been biting and licking. We washed it and saw right away there was something weird.