April is Heartworm Awareness Month, & we want to remind you that it is important to give your pet's heartworm preventative as recommended by your veterianarian to ensure proper coverage! This month only, when you purchase 6 months of preventative in clinic, you will be enterted to win 6 more! | St. Matthews Animal Clinic

To find out more about these treatment methods, scientists put adult Dirofilaria immitis worms 🪱into 45 #dogs. They split the dogs into nine groups of five. After 75 days, two groups got doxycycline orally at 5, 7.5, or 10 mg/kg twice a day for 28 days. They also got ivermectin once a month at 6 µg/kg. Three groups didn’t get any treatment. The scientists checked the dogs before treatment💉🔬, and then 30 and 60 days after.🐶🐕 Whether they followed the 30-day wait period recommended by the Ame