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Copper4, October 2003
This handsome, 2 year old yellow Lab was surrendered to a vet in Temperance, MI. Copper had been in a drug and bomb-detection training program, but was dropped from the training when he was found to have heartworms. Copper was in otherwise good health, and both his rescuer and the vet felt that he had an exceptional temperament. Copper was living happily with multiple pets - both dogs and cats - at his foster home.
Copper is one of the many Labs and Lab-mixes whose heartworm treatment was funded with help from LABMED. Copper is one of the lucky dogs who can look forward to a healthy life 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 hard on 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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