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Originally Posted by Lizzie07  What dog was that? Is that on YT? I hadn't heard anything like this. The friends I have that use ivermectin have never had a problem and never had a dog with HW.
If you have a puppy tested, start it on heartguard, then continue on heartguard, why would you need to get annual tests? If the dog got HW, the case couldn't be very bad, because you'd still be giving the heartguard. Unless you bought six months worth of useless Heartguard, the Heartguard should take care of the HW.
I frankly don't know how the preventive I get is shipped, what temp, etc. I bet it goes out UPS and can sit on a tarmac and cook for all I know. There is no reason to assume the ivermectin is shipped any worse. It is given to livestock, after all. |
here is the problem with over the counters, 1 800 pet meds, ext for getting prevention....
you don't know where it was made (some people are getting meds made in third world countries shipped to them in full on chinese from pet meds)
you don't know how old it really is (outdated won't work as well)
and you don't know if it's been frozen or over heated (most meds. require room temp. to be effective)
if you are buying things that aren't the actual thing you thought you were buying then you aren't getting an effective drug and you have a higher risk of getting worms. it's just a fact. not all pills work the way they should and sometimes even in just one missed dose heartworms develop. and any activity at any time those worms show up could cause one of them to dislodge into a lung and kill the dog. it only takes one missed pill for heartworms to form and if a HWP is given and it kills that ONE WORM insdie the dog and it just happens to flow into the blood stream and clot, well bye bye beloved dog...HWT are very very important, they can save lives if done. does that make more sense?