It’s simple; sometimes conventional medicine is best.

hello hello hello hello Readers may be surprised to learn from this month's article “Heartworm: Don’t Take It Lightly” that we recommend the use of conventional heartworm preventative drugs. Our usual suggestion is to minimize the use of pesticides, vaccines, artificial food additives, and toxic chemicals on or around dogs, so one might guess that we’d also be opposed to heartworm preventatives.

One can readily find numerous anecdotal reports about raw-fed, holistically supported dogs who successfully resist heartworm infection without the benefit of preventatives, or even dogs who live well into their senior years while hosting a small population of heartworms. Some holistic practitioners believe this is the natural state…

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