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And it is important to note that, in addition to oral heartworm preventatives, there are topical heartworm preventatives that are applied to the skin on the back of the neck.

The active ingredient, moxidectin, is in the same drug family as the monthly oral heartworm preventatives we are already familiar with: Heartgard, Interceptor, and Sentinel.

Both topical and oral heartworm preventatives are available (Advantage Multi and Interceptor are good examples) and should be given year round.

The ProHeart 6 safety profile is found to be similar to that of current oral heartworm preventatives.

We have monthly oral heartworm preventatives in combination with intestinal wormers, and we have oral preventatives in combination with intestinal wormers that also can inhibit the hatching of flea eggs.

Even if you faithfully give the heartworm preventative every month as recommended, your pet may spit out or vomit an oral heartworm preventative resulting in one or more missed doses.

→ Heartworm prevention also protect against intestinal parasitism on a monthly basis; this is another important reason to give your dog oral heartworm preventative, as our dogs are continuously exposed to intestinal parasites in the environment and from other dogs.

Dr. McCall presented his groundbreaking study showing success in heartworm prevention when an oral heartworm preventative is used alongside a topical parasiticide to kill and repel vectors.

Not exact matches

Prevention of heartworm disease involves once a year heartworm testing and a monthly oral preventative medication.

Administering monthly oral or topical heartworm preventative medication year - round is your pet's best defense against heartworm disease and annual tests verify that the medication is working.

You want to give a six - month heartworm injection and an oral flea preventative?

More commonly, a dog may spit out or throw up oral doses in succession, or owner compliance (forgetting to give the heartworm preventative) is poor.

However, a recent Harris Poll found that of the dog owners surveyed who provide a monthly oral heartworm disease preventative to their dogs, nearly one quarter (23 percent) say their dogs do not always eat the entire tablet.

More importantly, dog owners are freed up from the worry of remembering to give oral monthly heartworm preventatives on time.

Steel Valley Spay Neuter Clinic not only provides an affordable spaying and neutering option, but also offers affordable vaccinations, micro-chipping, heartworm testing, and heartworm preventative medicine both topical, oral and 6 month injections, flea / tick treatment and prevention, feline leukemia / feline immunodeficiency virus testing, toe nails trims, anal gland expression, and nutritional supplements.

Flea control measures include: bathing, dipping, collars, Sentinel («flea birth control» - an oral tablet that acts by sterilizing fleas), Capstar (oral tablet offers rapid elimination of adult fleas, usually within 30 minutes), Comfortis (month - long chewable tablet that kills fleas and prevents reinfestations), Advantage topical (kills fleas up to thirty days with monthly application), Frontline topical (kills fleas and ticks), Revolution topical (heartworm preventative and kills fleas and ticks as well), Vectra topical (works by killing adult fleas, preventing development of immature flea stages, and repelling ticks and mosquitoes), Trifexis (monthly chewable tablet for dogs that kills fleas, prevents heartworm disease, and treats / controls adult hookworm, roundworm and whipworm infections), and - very important - treating the environment with carpet powders, foggers, or sprays.

Sentinel is a prescription chewable monthly oral combination heartworm / intestinal worm / flea preventative.

Heartworm preventative medications are available from your veterinarian in many forms: oral, topical, and injectable.

We offer a complete inventory of pharmaceuticals, flea and tick control (both oral and topical), heartworm preventative (both oral and topical), shampoos, vitamins and other support supplements to fulfill the needs of your pet (s).