heartworm in northern ca

[glomeli1]

[calblu]

You should probably worry if you don't have your dog on preventive, especially if you do any "low country" hunting.
Heartworm is a big problem here in Butte County. Saw a LOT of positives in the year I interned as a vet tech.
I moved from SoCal to NorCal in '93. I never had my dogs on heartworm prevention down south, but as soon as I moved to Nevada County (3500' elevation) I put them on it at my vet's recommendation and haven't quit since.
Your vet should be able to tell you roughly how many positive cases he/she diagnoses a year.....or month if it's real bad.

[ricky_arthur]

I was in the vets office just a couple weeks ago anxiously awaiting a heart worm test. I was gonna kick my self in the butt if it came out positive , but Luckily it wasn't if you have it in your area, deffinatley have the dogs on a preventative.


Ricky

[Bearkiller]

I would especially if the you have a dog that came from a place with heart worms. I have a dog that I brought from texas that I've had since she was 8 weeks old. Maybe missed 2 or 3 months of ivomec and she got heart worms. Fortunately she's still alive and if she has a negative test on sept 5th she'll be able to resume hunting. It cost me about 700 dollars in the heartworm medicine and the incidentals.

[glomeli1]

thanks i have started her on the meds, but like i said i don't know anybody that has there dogs on meds here. but i keep it just to be safe, it dosen't realy cost that much and it is better to be safe than sorry.

[calblu]

It's cheap insurance when you consider the alternatives!

[Plott Proud]

[sow flat slim]

Put them on it whether there is any incidence of them or not, just good insurance.