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Miss Daisy
Thanks to the efforts of various members of
Dogs Deserve Better, Miss Daisy escaped a death sentence at a Little Rock
animal shelter. She'd been found wandering and, although her folks were
located and notified several times, they never bothered to go to the shelter to
pick her up. We're beginning to think we know why.
Daisy rode The Puppy Bus to Maine early in January, and took over. A career
felon, Miss Daisy's a confirmed cat chaser and unrepentant chicken slayer, who
is convinced that the universe revolves around herself. That said, she's
affectionate and cute, so we're disposed to put up with a lot from her.
Miss Daisy's a walking advertisement for Heartgard and other heartworm preventatives.
She arrived from Arkansas hosting an unknown number of adult heartworms, and
we've now had the singular pleasure of treating her.
This involved an overnight stay at the vets', during which she was given a couple
of injections which poison the heartworms over several days. Then she came home,
where she got Heartgard and prednisone. As the worms died off, the prednisone
aided in the destruction of the carcasses. But she had to be kept very quiet, and
on zero activity for six weeks, lest she eject a large chunk of dead worm into her
lungs and infarct stuff.
Look at this dog's face. Does she look like somebody who likes to sit quietly
reading and knitting all day? Right. So keeping her still wasn't exactly an easy task. It's
bad enough for a day, but for six weeks it was a chore. The Prednisone made her pee,
and guess who cleaned that up? She wasn't happy, we weren't happy, and the heartworms
(who'd thought they'd found a nice, warm apartment) were getting evicted. Nobody won.
So take a lesson from Miss Daisy. You don't want to go through this, and neither
does your dog. Make sure you have your dog tested every year, and give a
heartworm preventative during mosquito season, or better yet - just give the
preventative year-round. If you're in a mosquito-infested area, it's less
money in the long run, and it's vastly less aggravation.
Editor's update: As of July, 2005, Daisy's done with her heartworm treatment, and appears to have survived intact. For reasons unknown to us (and through no fault of Miss Daisy), the chickens appear to have survived intact, as well. That's not likely to last...
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Point Road, Georgetown, ME 04548 USA
800 526 8800 toll-free in North America or +1 207 371 2210 Fax: +1 207
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