A dog named Woody is able to run around and play again after recovering from a rare and complex brain surgery.DoveLewis ...

Heartworm disease is a common and life-threatening cardiovascular disease caused by a worm parasite — Dirofilaria immitis, which is spread by more than two dozen mosquito species. Vets in the ...

My vet said that it looked like roundworms but that using the heartworm preventative that I have should have prevented that.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted full approval of Laverdia, a drug to treat dogs with lymphoma, a type ...

Late last October, Bessie, a 2-year-old chihuahua mix, was brought to the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine by ...

A parasite that can kill dogs has been discovered in California’s Colorado River for the first time, marking a concerning ...

A Florida Keys man is accused of underfeeding and neglecting three dogs that he kept in outside kennels. He was arrested on felony animal-abuse charges.

When observing small worms under a microscope, one might observe something very surprising: the worms appear to make a sweeping motion to clean their own environment. Physicists at the University of ...

At a rehabilitation facility in Kyiv, some of Ukraine’s wounded warriors are working hard to learn how to use their new limbs. As John Yang reports, a very special dog named Lavr is giving them ...

A four-year-old French mastiff and Bullmastiff mix from Oklahoma has set a new Guinness World Record for having a super long tongue. Ozzy claimed the title for the longest tongue on a living dog with ...

In the animal phylum Nematomorpha (“thread-shaped” in Greek), horsehair worms are long, slender aquatic worms (also called wire worms). Unlike earthworms, horsehair worms’ smooth bodies are not ...

Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware — they probably have some wolf in them. That is the discovery announced on Monday by U.S. scientists, who were surprised to ...