I give Koda her her heartworm treatment every other Sunday. I am continuing the slow kill (gentle) heartworm treatment that was started in rescue. It’s actually a pretty simple process but is somewhat time consuming. And I give the treatments on Sundays so I can be available if Koda has any side effects, though she [...]
When I adopted Koda, I agreed to treat her heartworm disease using a slow kill heartworm treatment. This method is used by rescue groups and is being embraced by a growing number of veterinarians. This method uses Ivermectin (aka Ivermec) given to dogs every two weeks or giving Heartguard on a monthly basis. Ivermectin is [...]
Heartworms are parasites that are spread from heartworm positive dogs to other dogs by mosquito bites. When a mosquito bites a heartworm positive dog the heartworm larvae (aka microfilare) are carried from the blood that the mosquite sucks from the infected dog. Then when the mosquito bites another dog the heartworm larvae are spread to the other [...]
