[PrincessDiana]

Originally Posted by Sweet Apple

I feed raw (Primal) use organic flea spray in my yard, home...I don't use topical flea sprays...On a rare occasion, they may pick up a flea on an outing, and I use a topical organic flea spray (I'm, actually, a distributor for the product)...The only yucky I do is heartworm meds, although I have a friend w/a lab, and she says that if a pup is really healthy they won't develop heart worms...They may get them, in the larvae stage, but the body will destroy them, before they mature to worms...My pups have had 3 or 4 dhpp shots, and I don't plan to give anymore (will do titers in 3 yrs.)...I'm not onboard w/rabies shots, either...Treats are blueberries, apples and green beans...Yep, I wouldn't pretty much say they were being raised organic/holistic

I'm not trying to argue but I did my senior capstone project over heartworms and other parasites and I don't really think that's true. Heartworms are quite deadly and I think it's very important to keep them on preventative.