Please go to petshed.com. That’s where I get my animals’ monthly wormers and flea and tick meds.
What really upsets me is that this little guy is the sweetest dog in the world. He’s calm, friendly and happy. We’re going to try to save him and he is worth saving.
I did my homework on ivermectin. It is the same medication in the monthly heartworm preventative. It does not kill the adults, but it does weaken them and shorten their lifespan.
In less than two years, the dog can become heartworm free with this medicine alone.
The problem we’re having at the moment is that the larva are dying and the little guy is pretty sick with that.
The vet says that we’ll know within 6 months if he’s healthy enough to survive the prolonged heartworm infection. In the meantime, we need to keep him calm and happy. He also said that sometimes it doesn’t work and the dog is not cured in the two-year time frame.
Ivermectin is the primary component of the worming medication we give our horses. So far, no problsm with getting that.
Wow, I can’t thank you enough for that info. I tried a couple of dozen places online and never found that one. A lot of the others seemed to not require a prescription but then when you got to the checkout and entered your payment info they’d ask for the prescription information or would want to hold your order until you got back to them with it. It’s just crazy to jack the price of caring for your pets way, way, up when people have always been able to pick up the same medicine at Walmart or anywhere else that had even a small pet supply display. The whole thing is just like the scams that run in human health care. They know without even seeing you what’s required but they can’t prescribe it without seeing you or, worse still, they have to run tests to cover their butts even though there’s next to no chance that you have any problem other than the one they can diagnose over the phone. Thank God I’ve had the same doctor for thirty-five years and we both grew up in the same hometown. It avoids a lot of red tape crap whenever he can do so without getting his own tail in a jam.