Message Number: SG14222 | New FHL Archives SearchFrom: autumn_whispers2me
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 17:46:22 -0700 (PDT)
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Subject: Re: [ferrethealth] I'm the one that found the tick infested fuzzy.
Message-ID: <3969559.1117934874222.JavaMail.nobody@strontium.smartgroups.com>
I'm not comfortable with using a needle, not for something like heartworm
preventative. I'd rather go an uninvasive route, like Revolution. But I know there's a
liquid because the basset hound rescue folks here locally use that for their dogs.
I was under the impression that the only injectable heartworm preventative was taken
off the market for a while. We used to get that for the dogs until it became
unavailable. Those injections gave protection for 6mos. I wasn't aware there was
another injectable... or is this the same one?
Russell Prater <russellprater@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
You can have your vet mix 0.3 ml of 1% Ivermectin for injection with 28
ml of propylene glycol. Once a month give your ferret 0.1 ml per pound
or 0.2 ml per kg (same thing). Put it in an amber eyedropper bottle and
mark it exires in 2 years. It cost me $6 a bottle, surely you can get it
for less than $10.
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