Re: [pyrnet] Health: care of heartworm positive dog

["Heather" <standingoak@sympatico.ca>]

Hi Shirley
There is a holistic or herbal remedy on the market that might work for you.
I don't know how well it works but it's called "heartworm free"  it's been
formulated by Amber Technologies.  I know that people have used their
"Parvaid" product successfully when treating Parvo in their dogs.  Their
email addy is www.ambertech.com
Hope this might work for you.
Ciao
Heather   Shakespeare and Mushu raw fed pyrs
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Shirley McGreal" <smcgreal@ippl.org>
To: <pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 11:22 AM
Subject: [pyrnet] Health: care of heartworm positive dog


> At 8.15 a.m. on Friday I received a call from a former employee named
Ginny
> who works for the Charleston SPCA. She has the sad job of performing
> euthanasia among her duties. When working for me she helped with the care
> of our first Great Pyrenees Sebastien and on Friday morning, she checked
> the work list for the day and found a Great Pyrenees was to slated for
> euthanasia. The animal had heartworm and there would be no reprieve. Ginny
> was frantic and asked us please to get her out, so within half an hour my
> husband was on the way to the SPCA and came back with a very sweet scrawny
> and very dirty girl named Zoe. Definitely a Pyr, supposed originating in
> New Mexico, no breeder's name on file. We contacted Rescue in case things
> don't work out for her on our animal-full property here but she is so
sweet
> and stays busy scampering around trying (successfully, to date) to score
> brownie points with us all.
>
> Zoe's main health problem is the heartworms which is why the SPCA did not
> plan to put her up for adoption. She is also not spayed. She was an
outdoor
> dog which means certain heartworm here for an unprotected dog. The owners
> signed her off as they were moving to Arkansas.
>
> Has anyone any information on whether there is currently any treatment
that
> does not require keeping a dog totally quiet for a long period? I have not
> had any experience with this disease. A vet suggested giving her a
> Heartguard pill as it would prevent new worms forming and would kill off
> existing ones within a couple of years. I also heard of a two-shot
program.
> Another vet said the cost would be over $600 and that the animal would
have
> to stay in the hospital for three days.
>
> Zoe is 5 and unspayed, and I'm also wondering if it is safe to spay a
> heartworm positive animal?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> Dr. Shirley McGreal, Chairwoman
> International Primate Protection League
> POB 766, Summerville SC 29484-0766, USA
> Ph. 843-871-2280 Fax. 843-871-7988
> E-mail: smcgreal@ippl.org, Website www.ippl.org
>
> "Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely
in
> a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside,
> thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: WOW.... WHAT
A
> RIDE!!!!"
>
>
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