A dog covered all over with ticks fell belly up on a Fresno driveway late last week, with the puppy hardly breathing and looking almost dead. “I have never seen a dog with this many ticks,” said ...

South Carolina has its fair share of pesky, crawly critters during summer, but ticks are a particularly dangerous nuisance. Their sole purpose is to gorge themselves on you or your pet’s blood.

Q: I wrote you recently about ticks. The vets I go to identified the gazillions of mites on my six dogs as chiggers. They said that they don't exist in this area, so they were puzzled as to where we ...