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10-01-2013, 06:02 PM | #1 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Michigan USA & Sheffield UK
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| What date do you give your pup(s) HW meds? Today's the 1st, so it's Heartworm medicine day in my home and I actually remembered and gave ZoE her medicine on time today...woohoo!!! It got me wondering, do most people give it on the first of the month? I've always done it & I've gotta say it doesn't work great for me. You'd think the first of the month, my house payment is due, so I'd remember, but I mail my payment out well in advance of the 1st, so by the time it comes around I've forgotten about it. I set an alarm on my phone to remind me, but it always goes off while I'm doing something, so I don't stop & give the meds right at that exact time. I mean to remember to do it later in the evening, but usually forget. How do you all remind yourself when to give HW (or other) meds?
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10-01-2013, 06:36 PM | #2 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Central, NJ
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| I do HW on the day of the month and Frontline treatment on the 1st.
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10-01-2013, 08:19 PM | #3 |
Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas
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| I write mine on the calendar.... |
10-01-2013, 08:22 PM | #4 |
♥ Maximo and Teddy Donating Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Northern Virginia
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| We give our HW preventatives on the first day of the month. My father writes it on his calendar and tells me. If he wasn't around, I would have to make a huge wall calendar that I can't miss -- something in the kitchen.
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10-01-2013, 09:02 PM | #5 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Northern VA
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| I use my phone. I set it as an "event" from 8 pm to 9 pm since that's when everything is pretty much done for the day. If I can't give the meds at that time, I swipe the snooze which will make the alarm go off every 5 min (maybe it's 10 min..) till I do give the meds and shut off the alarm. |
10-01-2013, 09:10 PM | #6 |
♡Huey's Human♡ Donating Member Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Ringgold, Ga
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| I give mine on the 1st of the month, too. I used to just have a reminder set up on my calendar for every 4 weeks but it fell in the middle of the month, and sometimes I would miss seeing it and go several days over...one time I missed an entire month! Now I figured if it is on the 1st, I should remember it but still have my reminder set.
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10-01-2013, 11:32 PM | #7 |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Georgia
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| I give HW on the first, and flea prevention med on the 15th.
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10-02-2013, 05:29 AM | #8 |
Donating YT Addict Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Oakland County MI
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| that's exactly what I do, which LOL reminds me I am a day late. I give her the chewable Heart Guard and so far never had a problem.
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10-02-2013, 10:50 AM | #9 |
Donating YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Michigan USA & Sheffield UK
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| I've not had an old skool write-on paper calendar in over 5 years. I think I might need to go back to one. Maybe if I walked by it all the time, I'd remember. Then again....I put an empty bag on my door handle & then put things in it I need to take with me the next time I head out of the house. I can't tell you how many times I've opened the door, with the bag clanging against it....and STILL walked out without the things I meant to take with me!
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10-02-2013, 12:07 PM | #10 |
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| Around here it goes something like this: Alarm sounds (if set) on designated day. If we are paying attention we usually just ignore for the moment and then forget. Other times no alarm is set. About 10 days after the due day the thought crosses my mind to give it. If I am internetting or some such important thing () I agree in my head to remind myslf later. That goes on for a few days until I realize they are now at risk, so I scare myself into it. This reminds me they are twelve days late.
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10-02-2013, 03:23 PM | #11 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: At Home
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| Mine are given on the 1st of the month. I set the pill packet's out the evening before next to their food bowls for breakfast. After breakfast they are given the pill's. I have never missed or ever forgotten to give mine theirs. It's way too important not to forget!
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10-02-2013, 03:24 PM | #12 | |
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10-02-2013, 06:14 PM | #13 |
YT Addict Join Date: May 2013 Location: Saint Marys, Ga
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| Gina gets her's on the 5th, that's the day we got the HW meds, so I wrote on the 5th of every month on the calendar, and so far I haven't missed one yet. Cheers Quad
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10-02-2013, 06:29 PM | #14 |
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| Tibbe's is the 26th of the month.
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10-02-2013, 06:49 PM | #15 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Central, NJ
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| Meant to write that I give HW on last day of month.
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