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Bubba2, April 2003
Bubba was rescued from a shelter in Georgia by Fur Babies Animal Rescue and Aid. This big friendly one year old black Lab proved to be a champion tennis ball retriever! Unfortunately, he tested positive for heartworm, bringing his tennis ball activities to a halt for the long weeks it would take for him to recover from the heartworm treatment.
Bubba is one of the many Labs and Lab-mixes whose heartworm treatment was funded with help from LABMED. Bubba is one of the lucky dogs who can look forward to a healthy life (filled with tennis balls!) as long as he receives a heartworm preventative on a regular basis. Heartworm is spread to dogs by mosquito bites and is detected by a blood test.
Prevention of heartworms is easy, but the treatment is hard on a dog. Heartworm preventatives kill the immature worms in a dog's blood and have little or no effect on the dog. Killing the adult worms is very stressful for a dog, requiring hospitalization and four weeks of limited activity to prevent damage to the lungs as the adult heartworms die.
Please help us to educate dog owners about heartworm disease. Not everyone is aware of how life-threatening heartworms can be and how easy it is to prevent them. There are very few areas of the US where heartworm is not a threat to the health of dogs for at least part of the year. Administering heartworm preventative on a regular basis is an important part of responsible dog ownership!
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