Re: Dogs and food                                            [1]
  By: Richard Webb to Cindy Haglund on Tue Jun 03 2008 03:18 am

 > 
 >  RW> have mosquitoes you're gonna have heartworm, and mosquitoes are

True.  And when I was "in dogs" (1973-1995) as a show
breeder-exhibitor, first
heartworm medication was a DAILY PILL and I was lucky to have small dogs
(Beagles) because the size for them was so much cheaper than for Rottweilers,
etc.  Even so it cost me a LOT of $$$ every month because I was giving a pill a
day to anywhere between 6 and 16 dogs depending on whether it was in the
beginning or later on when I was housing a bunch of retired champions who were
moving toward senior citizen status.  Once I got to the 14-16 range it stayed
there as I added the pick of litter puppies at one end while the old ones died
off at the other.  A couple of times, fortunately after heartworm pills were
once a month, the population got to 18-20 because the seniors who died at 12 or
13 now had lifespans of 15-17 thanks to medical technology advances and new
treatments for contagious illnesses like Parvovirus.  When I stopped being a
breeder and exhibitor I had 7 or 8 dogs.  The last one died in 2001 and since
then I've been dogless because of situations that made it not possible to
properly safekeep one on my property.    One of the best medical advances for
owners of multiple dogs was the once a month heartworm pill and the other was
the vaccines against Parvo and Kennel Cough.
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