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Originally Posted by Nancy1999  Please be very careful if you do this and check with your vet. The medication that Joey is given is very safe, and he could eat several in one month with no ill effects, in fact, some dogs have eaten a whole package without any ill effects. However, if you skip a month, and then forget to give another dose, you could be giving the next dose when heartworms have already gotten to the heart, and this would prove deadly to the dog. |
I'm still not changing anything I do -- mine will all get their once a month Heartguard. I just said it makes me wonder how much I am overdosing them. I would not change based on postings alone. I doubt our vet would approve of the every other month. But I do worry sometimes of the accumulative affect of all of the over-medicating we do on our pets. Between vaccines being stronger than needed, and pesticides being more potent and more often than possibly needed, it could be a lot of toxic build up over the years.