What heartworm preventative is your dog on?

If you really have given it every month you might be able to get the preventative manufacturer to pay for the heartworm treatment.

Question is - have you missed any months at all?

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Posted by TulaneUVA

Member since Jun 2005

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Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:17 pm to AubieALUMdvm

My GSP had heart worms and my vet gave me two options. The kennel treatment but there's literally no way to keep him calm. Huge risk. They also gave me the slow kill option. It was pills that he had to take every day for a month along with topical heart worm prevention for a year. I am crossing my fingers that on his next visit he is cleared.

I don't know if it's based on the stages of the heart worms as to the treatment protocol but I would certainly ask for alternatives. Especially in pill form and ones that do not require "kenneling"

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Posted by tigers win2

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Member since Oct 2009

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Posted on 2/2/16 at 8:41 pm to AubieALUMdvm

quote:
If you really have given it every month you might be able to get the preventative manufacturer to pay for the heartworm treatment. Question is - have

No, we have never missed. The wife is good about making sure of that.

The only thing the vet could think of is that she may have been undertreated due to weight gain from one office visit to another. She had rapid growth and during one checkup they noted that we need to move up to next size/

We were using Trifexis (sp?)

The vet mentioned that had we been on Advantage multi the entire time they would pay for treatment.

This post was edited on 2/2/16 at 8:43 pm

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