Your dog's Heartworm prevention?

[wolfsoul]

We don't use anything. We do have mosquitos in the area, however our temperatures are too extreme for heartworm. In all the years my vet has been in practise, she has seen only 3 cases of heartworm -- all from dogs that had just recently traveled to Ontario.

ProHeart 6 nearly killed her (it's now off the market).

They put it back on the market last year -- as far as I know it's still there, unfortunatly.

[DrKym]

Heart Guard for the dogs Interceptor for the cats.............I also deworm once a month (with the rescues etc never know what is brought in) and for fleas I use totally holistic remedies.

[wolf_Q]

I use Tri-Heart plus. I used to use Heartguard but my vet started carrying that instead. I think its a generic version of heartguard?

[Catlady711]

They put it back on the market last year -- as far as I know it's still there, unfortunatly.

In refering to Pro Heart 6, I can't find anything on Fort Dodge's website about it returning to the market http://www.proheart6.com/ The last reference they had was dated 2005. You might have been thinking of Advantage Multi from Bayer which does contain the basic ingredient that was in Pro Heart 6 called Moxidectin. http://advantagemulti.petparents.com...eMultiDogs.cfm
Which incidentally is why my boss refuses to carry or recommend that product.

I use Tri-Heart plus. I used to use Heartguard but my vet started carrying that instead. I think its a generic version of heartguard?

Not a generic per se, it's made by a reputable company called Scherring-Plough which has been around for years. The deal with Tri Heart is that the patent is off on Heartguard so Merial no longer has the monopoly on the product that they used to have. http://www.triheartplus.com/index2.html There is also another one that IS a generic called Iverheart, although I don't know much about that one as we don't carry that one at work, but we've been using the Tri Heart for almost 2 years now because the price on Heartguard just keeps going through the roof evertime we order. Tri Heart has the same ingredients at a much lower cost because Scherring doesn't spend nearly as much advertising as Merial does.

if you have the right KIND of mosquitos in your area. we have loads of mosquitos here but heartworm is non existant as we dont have the type of mosquito that carries heartworm.

It's not what 'type' of mosquito that matters, any mosquito can carry the heartworm larva, however as I recall it needs an average temperature above 54 degrees farenheit to be able to transmit, which is why in the northern states most people don't need to give heartworm preventative during the winter months.