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Every time I take my 11-year-old Pom in for her shots, I get lectured and threatened about the condition of her teeth and the need for a $300 cleaning procedure! Her last cleaning was seven years ago.

I listened to a radio pet call-in program yesterday, and they spent the entire hour on heartworm and how awful it is!! They said that if a dog (or cat?) has these worms, that the treatment may be the death of them or worse than the actual infestation because of the dead worms ... no, I'm not going to go there.

I live in AZ, and the program was local. Callers said, "This is AZ, we shouldn't have a mosquito problem here, should we??" You guessed it! The answer is "Oh, yes! Swimming pools, fountains, irrigation and our modern way of life are bringing them here."

They really made me depressed, since we don't do the HeartGuard thing. After reading this thread, I am certainly going to reconsider annual shots, and just do them and the rabies every three years!!

No offense, but if your dog has bad tarter/pario/tooth decay, in addition to probable pain she can't tell you about, she is constantly fighting infection, which wears her down. You can call it a guilt trip, or you can call it a treatment recommendation. The infection will be harder for her to fight the older she gets...