Your dog's Heartworm prevention?

[guineapiggy]

Don't use it wonder if i should

[CathyBogart]

guineapiggy, if you have mosquitoes in your area then it's a really good idea to use it. Heartworm treatment once the pet is infected is really expensive and has a high mortality rate. We always recommend it even for indoor-only pets, because mosquitoes can definitely get inside a house.

I give Jasper Heartgard. The vet I work for told me that from what he has seen he doesn't feel that Revolution is very effective for dogs, so there went my idea for an all-in-one treatment for Jasper. I think the demand is high enough that Revolution will try to reformulate a more effective dog formula soon though.

I do not have him on flea prevention. I've only ever once found a flea on him (and with his sparse fur it was EASY to spot) and when that happened I gave him a capstar to kill any lurkers. I've considered Advantage or the like...if I find a flea again I probably will put him on it.

[gemini9961]

Interceptor for my 3.

[bckrazy]

I use Interceptor... that reminds me, I need to refill this month.

[caseysmom]

It is a big problem here, the vet my daughter volunteers with says that untreated in 4 years they pretty much have 100 percent chance of getting heartworms. I have seen him treat lots of dogs, its such an easy inexpensive treatment that can avoid such a horrible thing.

[lute]

Don't use it wonder if i should

Heartworm prevention is a MUST if you have misquitos in your area. Heartworms can kill your dog! It's definatly not something to mess with. Yes, HW prevention may seem highly priced, but it's nothin compared to the treatment once your dog has them. You can buy HW prevention at your vet's office. It's the most reliable place to buy it.

[ramanth]

I use HeartGuard.

Kia was first put on Sentinal but she'd throw up the pills. ProHeart 6 nearly killed her (it's now off the market). We've had great success with the HeartGuard.

We use Frontline Plus for the fleas and ticks.

[cali]

Heartworm prevention is a MUST if you have misquitos in your area

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.

[kallisto4529]

Reilly gets Heartguard.

[mr.chiwawa]

Mister is on the Sentinal where as it protects agaisnt fleas as well. Here once I get a hard frost I stop the frontline for the winter. But I continue with the Hw. He doesn't mind it i put it in those pill pockets and he eats it thinking it is some sort of yummy treat. Jack (the foster) Is also on the same thing just a different doasge where he weighs more,

[lute]

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.

Lucky!!! HW is such a problem here! We get on avgerage 3-5 HW Possitive dogs a week at work.

ramanth, That prevention killed a lot of dogs. Kia was a lucky girl! There is another HW preventative out now that uses a lot of the same stuff in it as ProHeart 6. The vet a work for refuses to carry it.

[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.