Your dog or cat may not
show symptoms of heartworm disease until six months after initial infection.
Not exact matches
Thankfully, my family had a
Heartworm screening test done, and the
disease was caught early; so I'm not
showing any
of those
symptoms yet.
Once mature, the adult
heartworm can reach a length
of 6 - 18 inches.Pets with
heartworm disease can be completely free
of symptoms, or can
show one or more signs such as coughing, weakness, listlessness, labored breathing, or weight loss.
Dogs in the early stages
of heartworm infection may
show no
symptoms, but eventually they can exhibit signs such as tiring easily, loss
of weight, breathing problems, and eventually liver
disease and heart failure.
By the time this occurs, most cats begin
showing symptoms of cat
heartworm and the
disease can become fatal very rapidly.