{"id":6021,"date":"2020-01-14T11:35:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T17:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=6021"},"modified":"2020-01-14T11:35:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T17:35:11","slug":"chester-and-heart-worm-treatments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/?p=6021","title":{"rendered":"Chester and Heart Worm Treatments"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Heartworm is a bad thing and something I’ve always taken seriously.\u00a0 All my dogs have been put on heartworm (HW) preventative meds as soon as they’ve come to live at my house.\u00a0 I don’t mess with this stuff!<\/p>\n

Here’s a quick image showing how dogs are infected with these nasty worms and then a link explaining it more thoroughly.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.heartwormsociety.org\/heartworms-in-dogs<\/p>\n

This past August when Chester came to live at our house, the rescue said he’d tested HW negative.\u00a0 That same week, I trotted him over to our vet and had him started on HW preventative meds.\u00a0 We went with the monthly chewables.\u00a0 His meds day is the 3rd of each month and he’s never missed a dose.\u00a0 Soooo,<\/p>\n

Imagine my surprise last Friday when the vet called to say he’d tested positive!!!<\/p>\n

Y’all watched me try to process the news on Social Media.\u00a0 It was heartbreaking!!!\u00a0 Chester is such a good boy and now facing those terrible treatments…<\/p>\n

I just got off the phone with the vet’s office.\u00a0 We’ve been going round and round since Friday, trying to iron out a payment schedule and lower the costs a little bit.<\/p>\n

I’m very happy to say they’ve worked with us pretty well! They’ve eliminated some unnecessary tests and this should be very manageable to the pocketbook.<\/p>\n

Now, we just need to make it as comfortable as possible for Chester!!!<\/p>\n

HW are a nasty piece of business and I’m determined to wipe these mean ol’ things out of my puppy.<\/p>\n

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We begin oral meds next month.\u00a0\u00a0His first set of injections will be in April.\u00a0 \u00a0May, he’ll have the last two injections two days in a row.\u00a0 Poor baby!!!\u00a0 It’ll be worth it to get rid of those things!<\/p>\n

Taking steps to get Chester healthy again!!!<\/p>\n

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Heartworm is a bad thing and something I’ve always taken seriously.\u00a0 All my dogs have been put on heartworm (HW) preventative meds as soon as they’ve come to live at my house.\u00a0 I don’t mess with this stuff! Here’s a quick image showing how dogs are infected with these nasty worms and then a link […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,22,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6021"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6026,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6021\/revisions\/6026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/TM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}