We have had a few cases over the years @ my vets office-with the right care-consistent care-knowledgeable vets-I bet your new little guy pulls through....
--- In [email protected], "Alexis and Tim" <newsletters@...> wrote: > > We had a Chihuahua show up in the dark Friday night - we live where everyone > has 5 acres and he doesn't belong to anyone around here so he was > apparently dumped (we have three other dogs and two of them were dumped > too!) This little guy is very sweet, deer head type it seems, wonderful > temperament and appears fairly healthy. I took him to vet today to be > checked out and he has heartworms. He has not coughed or anything which is > a good sign but I'm worried and it's also a big expense we didn't plan on. > However, no way could I let him die or get sicker! The vet first has him on > antibiotics for 30 days to kill a parasite she says they have found that > causes the heartworms to be resistant to the treatment! He will also be on > preventive to keep young worms from growing up. Then he is to go to phase 2 > (followed by phase 3) treatment in 60 days (not sure why that long) - this > will require some hospitalization and then rest when he is at home. So it's > going to be a long haul. They think, from the amount of tarter on his > teeth, that he is at least 5 years old but he does not act very old at all. > She said she has not had a dog die from heartworm treatment in years. I > guess I want encouragement and any tips anyone can give. We tend to be > holistic with our own as well as our dog's care. They all get food like > Blue Buffalo and Canidae and sometimes I supplement with a little raw meat > or canned wild Alaskan salmon and sometimes a vitamin supplement. I want to > build him up as much as possible before the hard part of his treatment. > > > > Obviously he had bad owners (he has hookworms too) who then figured they > would just drive down a country road and dump him in the dark! I can't > imagine doing that to this little guy! > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chihuahuas/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Chihuahuas/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
