Heart Worms

Is it a good idea to continue Heartworm preventative when positive test occurs?

The dog was negative test in spring? she has been on Heart worm preventative for months. She just now tests positive? If we continue the heart pills what will happen? It will kill baby worms that wish to grow to adult size and infect my dog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! or will it make super bugs that are not so easy to kill with Heart worm preventative any more????? I'm so curious! Please help ! My dog is 11 yr s old, but seems very very healthy!!!!!!!!!!! I hope she can live through the poison heartworm treatments!!!!!!!1 Not sure. I can buy TWO siberian Husky puppies for the cost of one treatment. : ( but you know, we all love our dogs! She's a great temprament with the cat and kids. (unbelieveable with the high prey drive.... Common in huskies...) She was my $75 discount dog, too.... maybe she was inbred or something. She's funny! She has a sense of humor! OK BYE We may have to wait a week or so to get the heart treatments. still thinking and doing tests bout her liver and kidney health. (She's OLD). sorry. My vet is evil. I seek a new vet. They want me to only buy SPECIFIC brands for flea/tick/mosquito ointments (on the shoulder blades). They said a specific "bad" brand (on my dog) COULD cause my cats to die! * They want me to buy THEIR special cat food. They suggest that even feeding 50% meat to my cat is a bad idea. It's just insane. What did they think a wild cat would eat? My cat has FIV and Urine Crystals (FLUTD? I guess they call it now?). The other vet techs thought 50% meat would be fine. It's all organic, cage free, happy grass fed animal meat, no sodium added, .. but no bones either. So, YES< I realise my cats need calcium and some vitamins, even if he is "sensitive" or "allergic" and seems to create these crystals in urine. I think it is the "ash" content in ordinary cheap dry cat food. ANyway, YES< I cook the meat. I'm sorry to bother you. I will change vets. I do NOT like my vet!!!!! GOod advice. Sorry I mentioned the inbreeding. I talk too much. * Ps. If even ONE cat died, the vet * COULD* say that.... see?? nasty vet. wants only my money. wants the heartworm to grow to adults,,mate, and create more heartworms, and more expensive treatments. a LIGHT case, as I suspect our case to be extremely light (Negative test in spring).... it seems good advice from all I have read. I will call other vets.

Forgot heartworm pill?

I really cannot remember if I gave my dogs their heart worm pill or not. I have never forgotten it, but for some reason I feel like I didn't give it to them this month. I can't tell from the number of pills in the box b/c I had some left over from before. One dog has four left and one has three left. Should I just give it to them or if I really did give them their pill will that make them sick?

Dog obedience problems with leash walking?

About 4 months ago my husband and I adopted an adult dog from a shelter. We've grown to love him very much and he is a really good dog, except for one thing. He can be incredibly stubborn and when we take him outside, he tries to get out of his collar and harness, and he has succeeded many times. Upon getting out of his collar or harness, he trots off, wanting to sniff things. He's very easy to catch, but I'm terrified someday he might go running to the busy road we live on. Also, on top of this, he does NOT listen to the command "come". No matter how much I've tried working on that command, he'll just stand there and stare at you as if he's testing you. So I obviously need to leash train him and work on some more commands...but we can't afford obedience classes right now since we've spent a fortune on him because he had heart worm when we adopted him, so are there any good books you would recommend or websites or anything? Also, if it helps, he's about 3 years old, Shepherd and Husky mix and he's not fixed. Thanks!

is $10 cheap for a Rabies shot?

Today I went to Tractor Supply because they had a shot clinic there today for 2 hours. There was a line around the store and out the door of people with their dogs/cats. I got my 2 puppies their rabies shot. Only $10 each!.. is this cheap? Also, they had shot packages for puppies for $40 (the basic one with first shot) and they had a full puppy package which came with all the puppy shots/wormer/heart worm test/etc for $120. good deal? how much do shots usually run at a vet's office?.. I had NO idea the store would be that busy! it was crazy! I almost left because my dogs were getting restless, but I stuck it out and I am glad I did and its over with. :). Also, I never knew there was such thing as shot clinics at stores once a month... does this go in your town?

Can a dog throw up a heart worm?

I found this long worm about a foot long in the water bowl. However, I pump water from a river so it could have come from there.