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MyDogsMom · 07-18-2004, 03:45 AM

Personally I would be giving my dogs the preventive if I lived in an area that showed the mosquitoes that carry that nasty stuff by the above map. My hubby brought home a purebred Shih-Tzu Aug 4 03, that was in very bad shape!! She had been "dumped", the hair was so matted that the only way to get her clean was to clip down to the skin! Including her tail. On Aug 6 03 I took her to the vet (1st app I could get) and found out she was heartworm positive. The vet asked if I wanted to give her up since I only had her 2 days, I said no way. The vet told me the worms were so bad that Chancey (the dog) would have to go through a 2 phase treatment, it would be very expensive and she may not beable to handle it because of the other health issues besides. I told her I didn't care and needed to try. This poor thing was a snuggle-bug from the very beginning and looked at you with nothing but pure love! Well, as of Mar 8 04 Chancey is offically heartworm free and all other issues are gone as well, except for being allgeric to flea saliva. So I tend to be quite fanatic about using a prevenative. I never want to go through that again!!!

07-18-2004, 03:45 AM	#50 (permalink)
MyDogsMom Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Memphis Posts: 92	Re: Do you give your pets Heartworm Preventatives Personally I would be giving my dogs the preventive if I lived in an area that showed the mosquitoes that carry that nasty stuff by the above map. My hubby brought home a purebred Shih-Tzu Aug 4 03, that was in very bad shape!! She had been "dumped", the hair was so matted that the only way to get her clean was to clip down to the skin! Including her tail. On Aug 6 03 I took her to the vet (1st app I could get) and found out she was heartworm positive. The vet asked if I wanted to give her up since I only had her 2 days, I said no way. The vet told me the worms were so bad that Chancey (the dog) would have to go through a 2 phase treatment, it would be very expensive and she may not beable to handle it because of the other health issues besides. I told her I didn't care and needed to try. This poor thing was a snuggle-bug from the very beginning and looked at you with nothing but pure love! Well, as of Mar 8 04 Chancey is offically heartworm free and all other issues are gone as well, except for being allgeric to flea saliva. So I tend to be quite fanatic about using a prevenative. I never want to go through that again!!!