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From: davegaines@aol.com
Date: 2005-11-18 17:50:37 UTC
Subject: [ferrethealth] Heartworm
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com

<<KATRINA ANIMAL VICTIM HEALTH ALERT: Katrina rescue ferrets and others need to
be checked for heartworm>>

This is an excellent point. I was in Louisiana for a week helping mainly dogs (a couple of hamsters and a rabbit, too, but there were no ferrets), and the heartworm rate was just about 100%. It was far and away the most commonly treated condition down there next to flea treatments. The dogs were mostly in bad shape, and not due to the hurricane, but due to poor day-to-day care. Routine visits to a vet, not to mention spaying, neutering, and prophylactic heartworm treatment, are apparently not widely embraced concepts in southern Louisiana. I can only imagine what condition the ferrets were in who were rescued from there. I would automatically begin heartworm treatments for any ferret rescued from anywhere in the deep south judging from the prevalence of mosquitoes, the weather, and the extreme prevalence of heartworm within the canine population that I observed.

DG

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