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Originally Posted by Lovetodream88  If you are giving a chew for heart worms and is doesn’t bother him why would an oral flea and tick med bother him? Just kinda wondering. |
I didn't give him heartworm meds either per my vet until this past month. After
over a month of diarrhea, we basically had to stop *everything* and do trial and error and introduce things very slowly and one at a time just to be safe. So he had his last dose of Heartguard on October 30th (I stagger every 45 days in the winter) and he began having chronic diarrhea from December 18th - January 22nd ish.
I determined that he may have a corn allergy through trial and error and Heartguard has corn in the ingredients. I *think* Nexgard does too but I may be remembering it wrong. So anyway I ultimately decided on Interceptor for heartworm preventative and hoped for the best. He had his first dose about a week ago and has been okay, thankfully.
My vet and Internal Med Specialist wanted me to use Revolution but that is a topical for heartworm AND fleas and I do not even have a problem with fleas, ever... but I do with ticks, therefore he would have had to been double dosed with a second flea/tick medicine and had a double dose of the flea stuff, when we didn't even NEED the flea protection to begin with - if that makes sense.
Anyway, I'd just prefer to be as cautious as possible and not mess anything up. If the Interceptor did not work out, I'd have been looking at the plain Heartgard unflavored pill, but it ONLY protects against heartworms (not hookworms, etc etc).
So long explanation to just say: I am mainly looking to help with repelling ticks when we go out on walks or to parks or dog events etc and keep anything I am putting in his digestive system to a minimum. Depending on the year, we sometimes don't even have issues with them. Like last year I only dosed him once in June and didn't see any ticks so ended up not giving him another dose until September. So it seems to just depend on the season.