Groom your pets regularly. Use a broad-spectrum parasite preventive for your pet 12 months a year. Broad spectrum means a product that protects against intestinal worms, fleas and heartworm. Your Vet can prescribe the one that is right for you. But that treatment can t prevent everything.
Ringworm is a fungal infection.
If your animal had patchy hair loss, scaly skin, or is constantly grooming beware. Ringworm is highly infectious to other pets and humans. It s easy to get the fungus on your hands or under your fingernails, and then pass it on. Itchy, reddened areas of skin, mostly circular, may be ringworm. Medicated cremes and salves to treat this condition.