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ginnyinWI

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6. Yes get a new vet--this is just silly.

Tue Nov 13, 2012, 09:24 PM

Nov 2012

I also have two indoor cats who only go outside with me watching them, and otherwise are on a screened porch or inside. Our vet has never even mentioned using heartworm chemicals to me.

And-- I work as a volunteer at an animal shelter, and there they ONLY see heartworm in animals who have been brought up from the Southern states. ( They have way more animals down there than they can handle so they often get sent north.) It just isn't very common here in the upper Midwest (I see by your profile you are in Chicago--I am only about 80 miles north of there.) An animal can only get heartworm from mosquitos, and if it isn't mosquito season, then there is no reason to medicate a cat or a dog, is there?

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Advice needed-- indoor cats [View all] MerryBlooms Nov 2012 OP

no glinda Nov 2012 #1

We live on the second floor and our guys are not exposed to any MerryBlooms Nov 2012 #2

No..I don't know that I'd feel safe.. Upton Nov 2012 #3

Neither of these cats have ever had a flea- MerryBlooms Nov 2012 #4

Find a new Vet. glinda Nov 2012 #5

Yes get a new vet--this is just silly. ginnyinWI Nov 2012 #6

Thanks for the info-- very helpful. MerryBlooms Nov 2012 #9

I have an indoor cat Curmudgeoness Nov 2012 #7

As you and others have stated, it's probably time for a new vet. MerryBlooms Nov 2012 #10

My precious Cookie is an indoor cat and avebury Nov 2012 #8

Continued good health and happiness to your precious Cookie and you. MerryBlooms Nov 2012 #11

Thank you for asking that question. PotatoChip Nov 2012 #12

Yes. ceile Nov 2012 #13

No, and my vets recommend *against* it. MadrasT Nov 2012 #14