What do you know about heartworm disease in our pets?
Here is a Heartworm 101:
Dogs get it by being bitten by a mosquito
The dog does not have to be in contact with other dogs.
Inside dogs can still be bitten by a mosquito.
An arsenic based medicine is used to kill the heartworm if the dog has it (obviously a potential problem for the dog also)
Preventative is less than $0.30 per day for even the biggest dogs.
The heartworm preventative we recommend - Interceptor- also takes care of _three_ of the most common intestinal parasites, Roundworm, Hookworm and Whipworms. No other monthly Heartworm preventative also does this.
Make sure your dog is tested, then put on preventative.
Also, just like West Nile, people and cats can get this also.
the cycle is the same, except since the cat is not the natural host, the worm behaves differently.
