tim03b

Hey guys,

I was just wondering what medication to treat heart worms or worms in general is the safest most efficient for my chocolate lab?
Thanks for the input!
Tim

Cessna Flyer

I use heart gaurd. don't have a tape worm issue so cannot answer that one

Outdoorsben

I use heartguard as well for my dog.

Snooky

If you really mean "treatment" for a dog that has heartworms, go to the vet.
If you are talking prevention, Ivermection injectable cattle wormer. Give orally at 1/10 CC per 10# of body weight once per month.
Check the active ingrediant in Heart Guard, I think it is still Ivermection. Much more expensive than the Ivermec but no better.
DO NOT give to dogs with collie blood as it will kill them.

Mickey Finn

It kills collies? Any breed?

I use heartguard as well. Never a problem.

ATB

Rajah

We use ivermectin as well. We still use other dewormers once every about 6 months since ivermectin doesn't take care of the rest.

As for collies, it supposedly has this affect on all "cattle dog" (herding?) breeds.

marquismarc

I use Sentinel on my yellow lab.

Schmidty25

I use Tri Heart Plus. Has worked great and my dogs can't help but eat other animal crap. lmao

Jim Williams

I have a retired black lab that is 12 yr. old. I have used Revalution made by Phizer all her life with no problems. Revalution not only prevents heart worms but kills all other parasite dog and cats can get such as fleas, ticks, all stomach worm, etc. It is very easy to apply just pop the little capsule and squeeze it between their shoulder blade once a month. It is a little pricey but not when you consider it will be the only treatment for all parasites. I get it from my local vet @ about 7.50 per dose. Jim

Snooky

Heart worms only come from the bite of a mosquitoe that is a carrier. If there are mosquitoes, your dog is in danger of heartworms. A few pennies spent on Imervection each month takes care of the problem. As others have said, Imervection doesn't take care of all other worms, but gets most of them. A couple of wormings each year with conventional wormers and Fido is a happy dog. Other wormers also don't treat heart worms. If you don't know what you are doing, you can kill the dog along with the worms. Suddenly killing all the heart worms can cause a blockage of dead worms in the heart, killing the dog. Untreated dogs don't live to a ripe old age either. Prevention is MUCH cheaper than treatment.