Flea, Tick & Heartworm Prevention

🐾 Year-Round Flea, Tick & Heartworm Prevention

Preventing complications associated with fleas, ticks, and heartworms is one of the most important ways to support your pet’s long-term health.

In our warm climate and heavily deer-populated community, diseases spread by fleas, ticks, and mosquitoes are a very real threat to both cats and dogs. At Hope Springs Veterinary at Sajo Farm, our veterinary team believes prevention is the most cost-effective, safest, and least stressful way to protect your pet.

🦟 Heartworm Disease

Heartworms are transmitted by mosquitoes and can affect both indoor and outdoor pets.

Early symptoms are often mild or unnoticed, making the disease difficult to detect in its early stages. As heartworm disease progresses, pets may develop:

• Mild cough
• Persistent cough
• Difficulty breathing
• Fatigue or reluctance to exercise

If left untreated, heartworm disease can become life-threatening. Treatment is significantly more expensive than prevention and can be physically taxing on your pet.

We proudly offer:

• ProHeart 12 – a once-yearly injectable heartworm prevention for dogs
• ProHeart 6 – 6-month injectable heartworm prevention
• Revolution Plus – heartworm, flea, and parasite prevention for cats

🐜 Fleas & Ticks

Fleas are more than a nuisance — they can transmit tapeworms, cause anemia, and trigger flea allergy dermatitis.

Ticks carry multiple serious diseases that affect both pets and humans, including Lyme disease and Ehrlichia.

Our recommended flea and tick preventatives include:

• Bravecto Quantum – long-acting injectable flea and tick prevention for dogs
• Revolution Plus – topical flea prevention for cats

🛡 Why We Recommend Year-Round Prevention

We recommend that all four-legged family members stay on heartworm, flea, and tick prevention year-round. These treatments protect against:

✔ Heartworms                                ✔ Tapeworms
✔ Roundworms                       ✔ Ear mites
✔ Whipworms                     ✔ Ticks
✔ Hookworms                    ✔ Fleas
          ✔ Tapeworms

Prevention is simple. Treatment is not.

Ask us about how we can get your pet started on a flea, tick and heartworm prevention program today!

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