It is. I yelled out loud when my vet told me. Foster & Smith has it. I haven’t checked around to see who has it, locally. My main vet doesn’t carry it, but wrote us a scrip. No joke re Sentinel. We never gave it, but I did read up.
I know. I read EVERYTHING now before I give my dogs anything I haven’t given before. My vet is very kind & totally indulges my dogs, but I don’t really trust any of them any more. They may believe what they’re told by the pharmaceutical reps in good faith, but that isn’t good enough anymore. Not when you’re losing dogs. I won’t go into it here, but will FReepmail you one of these days about what happened with Lina when we almost lost her (or maybe I told you about that when I first met you on here.)
Iverheart is just generic Heartgard. Interceptor is Milbemycin oxime & in the same family of drugs, so I don’t know what’s *so* different, but I do know that Lina did fine on it.
Have you not seen the Safeheart protocols for HW prevention dosing, Sal? My evening ran away with me (lol baking cookies). I’ll dig it up after this last batch, I promise. It’ll be here when you come back.
I have used the Milbemycin on my dogs *forever* and never ever had once single issue, not even with my Sight Hounds, who are total canaries in the coal mine when it comes to medicines.
I literally wept when they stopped making it.
Since that grim day, I’ve relied on testing regularly, instead, after the Ivermectin stuff gave the brats so much trouble.
Don’t get me started on vets.
Most of them graduate, start a practice and never go to any seminars, which exist solely to educate them on all the *new* protocols, such as the “annual vax” which should no longer be annual.
But vax make them a LOT of money.
Most still push the useless [best case scenario] and deadly [worst case scenario] Lyme vax.
Far too many still include the toxic Rimadyl in their drug arsenals.
I could rant for hours but I won’t.
I have vet horror stories galore.
One idiot cost me the Wonder Dobe of my youth.
It’s been 31 years and I still grieve for that dog.