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Originally Posted by tandemgal
I took Emma to the Vet yesterday for routine maintenance - slight limp on right foreleg, new heartworm pills, microchip.
The Vet did a new heartworm test and Emma tested positive. Can't tell you how upset we are...
In order for the test to show positive she would have had to have them for 6/7 months so that means sometime between late Nov and March she became infected. I don't give her pills during winter because we don't have misquitos... this is all my fault - now my baby girl is very sick.
We have started her on two baby asprin and two antibodics a day for two weeks. On the 11th Emma goes to Vet for 2/3 day stay while they give her two shots to kill the heartworms. After that we MUST keep her calm and minimal movement for 6/8 weeks while the worms desolve. After that she goes back on Intercepter and a few months later is retested. If she is still positive we start all over again.
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*~* I have a neighbor who has 3 dogs. She told me that she NEVER uses any heartworm medicine...because she doesn't feel that it is worth the money. In her opinion...it is just all, "hype" that the pill even helps to prevent anything.
BOY.....is she wrong...huh ?
** I am going to share your story with her. **
I like this neighbor as a person...but, she and her husband leave their dogs outside all the time. Their kids have told me & my kids that the dogs have gotten dehydrated many times & also have had stomache viruses before.
Poor doggies...
*~* Nikki
