Quick Question About HW

[bckrazy]

I agree with Sue.

If a dog that has heartworm is given preventative, it does more harm than good. People would just be sporatically giving their dogs preventative with no idea whether they were HW positive or not, which is very very bad.

[cyber-sibes]

Our vet suggests a test every year, but since mine are on it all year long, we only do it every couple years. Star's first vet, in Illinois, was very insistent on using heartworm prevention meds. He had this gross model of an infested heart that he kept in his office --- after seeing that, I don't want to risk my babies getting it!

Sue - don't know if you found the heartworm map yet, but there's a US tick infestation map out there too. Wish I had bookmarked it

[K9soul]

Sue - don't know if you found the heartworm map yet, but there's a US tick infestation map out there too. Wish I had bookmarked it

I found this earlier:

http://www.dogsandticks.com/maps/index.html

I was thinking about the same thing because my vet has talked about how high Lyme disease incidences were in MN and that's why I am very vigilant on frontline and a Lyme vaccine. Willie got Lyme's when I was younger and it was a scary experience, it is a good thing he got diagnosed before it progressed too badly. MN is one of the worst for ticks with Lyme's.

[Danegirl2208]

i once a year, heatworm is not a big problem here, but i test just to be safe.