Required to give heartguard?

[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.

[Corinna]

Glacier, thats be couse it's too cold up there. We have mixed vet opinions here some think we should and so say we get cold enough for the worms to die here.

[Daisy and Delilah]

It does make sense that maybe heartworms wouldn't exist in certain parts of the world. I didn't even think about it but I think it's great that some areas don't have to worry too much about their dogs contracting it. Thanks for that information

[Rage]

Yea, I was kinda worried today when I first heard of this threat, lucky I'm in one of the few parts of the world that doesn't have to worry (or am I lucky that we get -40C weather in the winter?)

[bell_peaches]

My one dog will not eat the heartworm meds that the vet says all dogs love. He had to give me liquid to give her every month. So now all three dogs get the meds every month. I was relieved when we rescued Mrs. Magoo last week she came out negative for it. I had given peaches the shot for the six month treatment she got so sick from it I thought I was going to loose her. I will never ever give her that again. My vet says it was taken off the market but they are coming out with a diffrent one. I will wait and see how it affects dogs before ever giving it to one of my babies.

[Daisy and Delilah]

My girls get the chewable Heartguard. Delilah eats it like candy and Daisy spits it out on the floor. She eventually eats it but it takes a good long while. She can be pretty picky sometimes anyway LOL

[elizabethann]

Interesting...I always thought every single dog had to have a heartworm pill no matter where they live. Thanks for the map link.