Rider - He's very calm at home, but the Vet thinks he's only a year or two old, and I don't want to deprive him of a year of the dog park and hikes if I can only deprive him of two months, you know? He's a young dog and I'd like him to experience life, it doesn't seem like his previous owner let him to much, if you ask me. When I got him home, his coat was disgusting, which leads me to believe he had been left in the back yard (I don't think he was on the streets for too long because he wasn't too skinny), he also had no clue how to get into a car and was getting car sick the first few times we went anywhere due to the stress of it, he's since gotten over it because he now associates car rides with the dog park and Petco
This tells me that whoever had him before me never brought him anywhere in the car, you know? I just feel like with the slow kill method I'll be scared he could suffer an embolism at any moment over the course of the next year, or even longer, and he won't get to do anything or go anywhere. My Vet didn't really get into the slow kill method anyway, she just talked about the 3 shot method, so I don't know if that was even an option for her. I still haven't received a call yet from her, so I'm not even certain he's positive on the heartworm test yet, I'm still crossing my fingers that there's a possibility he'll come up negative. When I get a call later today, if it's positive, I'll be talking to her about both methods of treatment, the fast and slow, and see the pros and cons to both...