Yikes! Flea and Tick season is here!
The Odessa Animal Shelter would like to remind the public to please get your pets the medicine that they need to keep fleas and ticks off of them. Not only do they affect your pets, but they can affect your home and you too!
What do fleas and ticks cause?
Skin irritation and discomfort
Severe allergic reactions
Illnesses
What diseases do they spread?
Murine typhus
Flea-borne spotted fever
Cat scratch disease
Flea tapeworm
Salmonellosis
Plague
Rodent tapeworm
Murine trypanosomiasis
Dwarf tapeworm
Hemoplasmosis and Tularemia
Please, protect your pet and yourself from these parasites.
