Message Number: SG14572 | New FHL Archives Search
From: mjanke@miamiferret.org
Date: 2005-07-01 20:30:01 UTC
Subject: RE: Heartworm Prevention
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <5437931.1120249801654.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>

Author wrote:
> My vet says ferrets have such tough skins that they rarely get mosquito bites.

Your vet is wrong. Go here...

http://www.miamiferret.org/fhc/heartworm.htm

The risk in your area may not be as great as down here in Florida, but there is a risk, and since it is so easily and cheaply preventable, why take a chance?

mike