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Originally Posted by Britster  Puppies can start heartworm meds w/o a blood test, since they're puppies and haven't even been around long enough for heartworm to develop (at least, I think this is the reason) so you should start heartworm medicine soon. 
But I think blood work is always good. I wish I had done it when Jackson was younger so I had a 'baseline' idea of what his 'normal' is, as he didn't have bloodwork until he was sick and I didn't really know if it was him being sick... or if it was just his 'normal' if that makes sense. |
Bella didn't have a heartworm test either before she started her heartworm meds. Bella's first bloodwork came when we took her in for her spay at 7 months, and that was blood chemistry work to make sure her liver function was okay and she was good to go for anesthesia. Bella had her first heartworm test done in April at about 15 months of age, at the beginning of mosquito season (although she had been taking heartworm preventatives all during the winter as well).