Re: [PyrNet-L] Judy -heartworm positive

["Tracy Pribbenow" <pribb@feist.com>]

Judy
Could you tell me more about this new treatment?  The last one I had
treated had the old treatment which nearly killed her.  What is the name of
the medicine in this shot?
Tracy
pribb@feist.com        Bentley, Kansas
http://www.feist.com/~pribb

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> From: J Cook <jcook@inreach.com>
> To: pyrnet-l@gamerz.net
> Subject: Re: [PyrNet-L] Kuvasz -heartworm positive
> Date: Friday, June 05, 1998 8:51 PM
> 
> As way of encouragement, I fostered a rescue pyr 2 years ago that was
also found
> to have heart worm.  My Vet, truely a saint, used the new medication that
requires
> on 2 injections, 24 hours apart.  The bitch then had to be kept quite for
2 weeks
> while the worst of the dead worms were absorbed and she no longer had a
threat of
> the dead worms working as a blood clot would and block her circulatory
system.
> 
> This pyr was no beauty contest winner but what she lacked in style she
more than
> made up for in personality and love of children.  She is now living with
a couple
> who run a foster care foundation for children.  It seems to be a job she
was born
> to do.
> 
> Shortly after, my own bitch, who in MHO is a beauty queen was found to
have heart
> worm also.  The same treatment, the same wonderful out come.  They no
longer have
> to nearly kill the dog to cure the worms and the cost is very reasonable
when you
> consider the result.
> 
> Bottom line, Heart worm does not have to be a death sentence any more.
> 
> Judy Cook
>