Hi and welcome to this thread! I hope you find it informative! We're a happy bunch with happy dogs and one of us is usually around to help answer any questions you might have regarding prey model!
Heart Worm Prevention; No offense, but the actual number of occurences of infestations has been grossly inflated by our dear Veterinarians as they receive their data from the pharmaceutical companies, wanting Vets all over the country to push and sell their product. The same is happening with flea and tick prevention. These products are toxic pesticides, not just some harmless sugar pills! Instead of scaring people with close up pictures of worms inside a heart, what about posting pictures of dogs that have been taking these pills for a while? What about long term studies on the effects? Where are these studies???
My 12 year Yorkie boy was given these pesticides every month for about a year and he got so sick on them that I stopped giving it to him because I was afraid that it was killing him! He is still dealing with the effects of that time as he has a pretty severe condition called chronic systemic yeast infection. His immune system shut down and his skin looked like minced meat!
My dog has never had fleas or a heartworm problem and we even lived in Europe for the first 4 years of his life. However, I have a problem with exposing my dogs to doctor prescribed toxins on the premise of prevention. Do we routinely amputate the limbs of little boys around the country because we can guess that at least 10% of these boys will have a fracture at some point? This example might be extreme but you get my point....
There are natural remedies that work very well! These remedies won't kill our dogs, don't cost a fortune and are safe to be around people, too!
Nadia
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Originally Posted by ladyj  Huh? What's miserable and deadly about heartworm preventative? Getting heartworms is what's miserable and deadly. |
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