| Heartworm prevention in dogs can seem like an | | | | Heartworms. |
| expensive and unnecessary treatment, but it | | | | |
| is vital to your favorite dogs health and by | | | | 4. Treatment of Heartworm infestations can be |
| extension your pocketbook. Although you may | | | | expensive and time consuming. Even if your |
| have never known a dog who succumbed to heart | | | | pet is completely healthy other than the |
| worms, it is a very real threat to your pet | | | | Heartworms, treatment for a full infestation |
| and their longevity. The following five | | | | can be hard on your dog and wallet. In the |
| reasons should be enough to motivate you to | | | | best cases your dog will need multiple |
| properly treat your dog for heartworms. | | | | courses of medication to completely eliminate |
| | | | the Heartworms and their offspring, and in |
| 1. Prophylactic Treatment is cost effective | | | | the worse case, your dog may require Heart |
| and life saving. Regular, Veterinarian | | | | surgery to remove the adult Heartworms. |
| recommended Heartworm preventative medication | | | | |
| is not as expensive as you might think, and | | | | 5. There can be complications to heartworm |
| can be found on the internet at a steep | | | | treatment, even in otherwise healthy animals. |
| discount to what a local Veterinarians office | | | | Complication due to treatment of Heartworm |
| might price the medication. Preventing a | | | | infestations can include dead worms breaking |
| Heartworm infestation is always preferred to | | | | loose and traveling to the lungs. This |
| treating the animal after symptoms have | | | | serious condition can cause respiratory |
| arisen. | | | | failure, and in the worst instances, death of |
| | | | the dog. It is a shame for any healthy and |
| 2. After infection, Heartworms can stay in | | | | happy dog to be brought down in their prime, |
| your dog up to 7 months before they have | | | | after an expensive and failed course of |
| sypmtoms. The life stages of Heartworms | | | | treatment that was otherwise completely |
| include a six and a half to seven month | | | | preventable. |
| period from your dog being bitten by an | | | | |
| infected mosquito to adult worms living in | | | | These five reasons are just the tip of the |
| the dogs heart. Treatment with preventative | | | | iceberg as to why heartworm prevention in |
| medications can kill the worms in this stage, | | | | dogs is so very important. As anyone who has |
| before they grow and attach to your dogs | | | | lost a special companion to this completely |
| heart. | | | | preventable disease can tell you, it is not |
| | | | something to mess with. Penetrative |
| 3. Treatment of Heartworm infestation may | | | | medication is readily available and |
| kill an old or weak dog. Healthy young dogs | | | | relatively cheap, compared to the |
| can usually survive treatment of adult | | | | alternative. There are several medications |
| heartworms, but a dog whose organs are weak | | | | that can be given in only every six months, |
| may not survive the treatment, if they even | | | | as compared to monthly for traditional |
| qualify for being treated due to any | | | | treatments. There is no excuse for leaving a |
| underlying conditions. It is so much easier | | | | dog untreated for Heartworms. Look into it, I |
| to avoid the painful loss of a long time | | | | know your favorite dog will love you for it. |
| companion by treating preventatively for | | | | |