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Originally Posted by MyFairLacy   I very much agree with all of this. I will never not give my dog heartworm preventative while living in Texas. Mosquitos get in my house all the time! It never really gets cold here and heartworms are really a danger all year long which is why I give preventative all year. The drugs in the preventative do not act upon the dog...they only have an affect on the worms so its not poison.
I've dissected dogs in anatomy class with heartworms...you can't imagine how discusting it is..it's like pulling spaghetti out of the heart. The dog's heart was so packed with heartworms I don't know how it held any blood..and the worms were spilling out into the lungs. I will never risk that with my dog...and the treatment is so hard on them. You have to keep them kenneled for months because they can die if you don't (dying heartworms will go into the lungs if they aren't kept still). It's just not worth it...I will always give heartworm meds. |
I will always give heart worm preventative because my corgi mix some time back had heartworms and that is what made him take a turn for the worse and we had to put him to sleep because he was older and couldn't handle the treatments for heartworms and when you have to experience something as tramatic as putting your dog to sleep for heartworms and congestive heart failure it's unbearable so I will NEVER not have my dogs on heartworm preventative no matter how many dogs I have.
Only reason I see some not keeping dogs on heartworm meds is either they have too many dogs and it eats at the profit or more research needs to be done. I've seen the links provided and I for one do NOT believe it's posion and unless my vet tells me otherwise I can't take the risk not having my dogs on heartworm meds....and I'm one that hates giving too many vacs to an animal....JMHO
Donna Bird
Brooklynn's Yorkshire Terriers