A routine blood test showed positive for heartworms. We have given her heartworm preventative (heartgard) every month at the same time thanks to our little heartgard alarm that beeps every month to remind us. However, It takes 6-7 months for heartworms to register on the blood test. She was not showing any symptoms of heartworms..cough..labored breathing...etc.
Which tells us we caught it as early as we possibly could have.
We had a second blood test done to confirm that she has heartworms, which came back positive. So..we scheduled a vet appointment to treat the heartworms. Jingle stayed at the vets office for two nights and is now back home. She is doing very well , we have to keep her "calm" for 6 weeks (no running, jumping, playing..etc.). Thankfully Jingle is pretty layed back which makes it a bit easier to accomplish.
Bark has been very attentive to Jingles condition which we always appreciate.
We set up a "doggie cam" to check on her during the day from work
and this is what we see 95% of the time......a lot of napping.
More information on heartworms - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartworm
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