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 ...

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 ...

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.

Washington State University veterinarian Cariann Turbeville and Richard Zack, a professor in WSU’s Department of Entomology, provide more details about botflies and how they might affect pets.

Adrianna Ramos of Hesperia found something recently that really got under her skin, well, at least her dogs' skin. She discovered a worm-like creature burrowed under her chihuahua’s eyebrow and ...