How you do remember to give your dog his monthly heartworm pill? If you don’t have a good method, get one! Remembering to give your pet his heartworm pill is too important to not be on the ball with this one. Prevention is easy…treatment is not.

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In a nutshell, a dog can get heartworm disease if bitten by an infected mosquito, and it effects the heart and lungs of a dog. At first, there are often no visible symptoms of heartworm disease in dogs. Prevention is simple: a veterinarian does a blood test to confirm that the parasite is not present in your pet, and a prescription is then written for a heartworm preventive.
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