There are 2 dogs that are regulars to the dog park where I take my furkids who have had heartworm and the recovery is grusome! I prefer to try to stay as natural as I can for both me and my dogs but heartworm is not something I am willing to take chances with. I give Graham Interceptor, and will start Cassie on it this spring as well.

I give them all sorts of stuff to boost their ammune system, and in the summer months I put, among other supplements, brewers yeast in their food and it works WONDERS on flea control. It does truly make dogs' blood "taste bad" and they never get so much as a flea bite. One day last fall I noticed 2 fleas on Graham after we returned from a long day in the dog park. In the 6 or so years I have had Graham, he has never had fleas, so I decided to "test" and see if the brewers yeast actually does work. That was the last of those fleas. They never multiplied. I checked him many times a day and they must have jumped off in search for a more "tasty host". I use brewers yeast when I can, but I do put "FrontLine" on him before we go on our yearly camping trip simply because I am absolutely disgusted by ticks and that stuff is supposed to prevent fleas AND ticks.

[This message has been edited by AdoreMyDogs (edited March 11, 2001).]