Required to give heartguard?

[Rage]

I just found out you're suppost to give your dog a pill called heartguard every month. Anyone even heard of this before? I've never given one to mine before, but I may start, especially after I found this sweet offer below:

TreasureTrooper pays $15 for every person who does the PetCareRX offer. To complete this offer, just make a purchase of any price. What you may not know is that every dog owner is required to give their pet a pill called "heartguard" every month. The veterinarian usually sells this chew to the dog owner at an inflated price. People can actually save over 50% on their heartguard medication by purchasing it at PetCareRX. Add the $15 that we pay you to do it through us, and you practically get the medicine for free.

Check it out:

http://www.treasuretrooper.net

[caseysmom]

You don't necessarily have to buy heartguard, you can buy another brand of heartworm prevention, heart guard is pretty pricey. Your dog should be tested for heart worms first, starting prevenative treatment in an untested dog could lead to worse illness if heartworms are present.

[Rage]

I've honestly never heard of heartworms before. Is it a new disease? Is it a risk to all kinds of dogs? Is it in all parts of the world, or what's up with it?

[My Peanuts]

Monthly heartworn protection is VERY important. My dogs have always been on it all their lives. Heartworm WILL kill your dogs. It is spread through mosquitoes. I recently rescued a stray with heartworm. The treatment, if caught in time, is very hard on their bodies. You can't just give you dog the pills. You need to get he/she tested because if he/she already has it the pills won't help and your dog will die. Heartworm is literally worms that grow in the dog's heart. The 'babies' are in the bloodstream and a simple blood test from the vet will find out if your dog is negative or positive. Years ago a positive almost always meant your dog would die, but now there are better treatments. My little patient, Jimmy, is doing really well and he will get retested in January to see if the worms are all gone.

[My Peanuts]

I've honestly never heard of heartworms before. Is it a new disease? Is it a risk to all kinds of dogs? Is it in all parts of the world, or what's up with it?

It's not a new disease. My childhood dog used to take heartguard. DO NOT GIVE YOUR DOG THE PRO-HEART 6 SHOT! I'm not even sure if it's still on the market, but it killed a lot of dogs. It's bad. Just ask Kimmy about Kia. Kia almost died from it.

[caseysmom]

I think some parts of the world are worse than others for heartworms, but pretty much anywhere there are mosquitos there are probably heartworms.

[caseysmom]

Here is a heartworm map:

http://cal.vet.upenn.edu/merial/hrtw...orldcolorF.gif

[Daisy and Delilah]

We have alot of mosquitos here in Florida. Heartworm preventative is a must. It's a very ugly disease that no one wants to witness. I lost my Pittie, Bully, to it many years ago. He had it when I found him wandering through my yard one day. I rescued him, got him the treatment, but still lost him to a miserable death. It was awful. As others have said, do not give your dog heartworm preventative without proper testing beforehand. Whatever you do.....do the test first. It could lead to more severe problems or possibly death. Thank God for the newer cures for the disease. As My Peanuts said, years ago your dog would almost always die if they had a positive test. Please have your dog/s tested and start the treatment as soon as you can. It will be well worth it

[Rage]

Weird, I'm from Saskatchewan and I have 3 German Shepherds that basically live outside because I'm on an acreage and I've never heard of this. I'm deffinately going to look into it though. Thanks.

[caseysmom]

From this it looks like you may not have heartworms in your area:

http://www.avma.ab.ca/animal_health/...th8.htm#point5

[Rage]

Oh, well I'll be damned, no wonder I've never heard of it. I'm still gonna signup at treasuretrooper.net though and buy like a $2 toy for my puppy and then I'll get $15 back. $15-$2=$13 profit!

Just thought I'd share the offer with you guys. Can be used to buy anything at that site.

[Jessika]

Let us know how it works out and if you DO receive your $15 rebate (or, in your acse, the $13 profit hehe)

[Rage]

I'm sure I will. If you check the forums at this site you can see that have been paying out thousands of dollars to members for months. There's a tone of other offers as well, credit card offers, $35 for signing up for a credit card. There's casino offers, one pays you $120 for depositing $50 into a casino. Got some mad money making deals :P Hopefully this one works well for me :P

[IRescue452]

I think our vet charges $12 per dog for a 6-month supply of heartguard. We get the chews.

[Glacier]

From this it looks like you may not have heartworms in your area:

http://www.avma.ab.ca/animal_health/...th8.htm#point5

Ticks and Lyme disease are bigger concern in Saskatchewan than heartworms. I grew up there and we always treated our dogs for ticks and heartworm, despite the lower risk. I also did heartworm protection when I lived in Alberta. We don't do it anymore. My vet doesn't even carry the meds as he's never seen a case up here.