You should start your puppy with a
monthly heartworm preventive as soon as your veterinarian recommends it and keep up with it on a monthly basis.
Dogs and cats over 6 months of age put on
heartworm preventive for the first time should be tested for heartworm disease before the preventative is started.
These breeds are not at risk for trouble when using the low dose
heartworm preventive products; only when using the off - label skin parasite protocols.
To protect your cat they should be on
heartworm preventive year round and receive their annual heartworm test at 9 months of age.
In most cases, a heartworm test should be performed and confirmed negative by a veterinarian before allowing your dog to
take heartworm preventive medication.
All dogs greater than 6 months of age should be tested and all dogs 8 weeks of age and older should be started on
heartworm preventive therapy prior to relocation.
Unfortunately, adopters are frequently instructed that the worms will «just go away» if
monthly heartworm preventive medication is administered.
These breeds are not at risk for trouble when using the low - dose
heartworm preventive products, but only when using the off - label skin parasite protocols.
Please consider donating to help us pay for her heartworm treatment and remember to keep your own dogs
on heartworm preventive!
Monthly
heartworm preventive medications are very safe, while treatment for a dog that has become infected is expensive, painful, and carries a risk of serious or fatal complications.
If there's a silver lining to this unwelcome news, it's that a simple solution is in the hands of veterinarians and pet owners: getting more pet owners to
administer heartworm preventives year - round.
For dogs who are not treated with Immiticide, the guidelines say, «the use of a monthly ivermectin -
based heartworm preventive along with doxycycline could be considered.
Through a partnership with the ASPCA, we're helping protect shelter pets
with heartworm preventive medications until they can find a permanent home.
In the process, I learned that the reasons my clients don't give pets
heartworm preventives as directed are similar to the reasons they skip their own cholesterol, diabetes and blood pressure medications.
Yet another reason to use year - round prevention is that
many heartworm preventives also have activity against other intestinal and common parasites, such as roundworms and fleas.
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