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From: Blue Girl (cpe-24-166-183-147.kc.rr.com)
Subject: My experience with Pro-Heart injection ...
Date: March 4, 2004 at 5:35 am PST
In Reply to: I'll tell ya -- this is evil stuff posted by Callie on March 3, 2004 at 4:08 pm:
About two years ago, my vet recommended I try the Pro-Heart injection on Maddie (we'd had a scare because I had mixed up on whether or not I had given her her heartworm pill one month, so I brought her in to get tested.) Anyway, he assured me it was "100 percent safe and a lot more convenient."
So, I had him give it to Maddie. The next day she started stopping and sitting down every ten feet or so on our walks. (And this is a very bouncy dog who loooves to run). At first I thought she had a burr or an injured paw, but no. This continued the next day too and I took her back to the vet, who couldn't find anything wrong with her. (He did another full exam for free even though he had just done her full annual exam.) I asked if it could be the Pro-Heart injection, since that was the only variable that had changed in her life recently, and the vet said absolutely not, no way, couldn't be the Pro-Heart. He suggested that it might be something psychological - like she was being stubborn or something.
It took Maddie months to get to the point where she'd do a whole walk without stopping and sitting down and I've always been convinced it was that Pro-Heart (and this was before I started hearing the negative reports.) Based on that experience I've never given her another Pro-Heart nor our other dog. Don't trust it.
And I wish vets wouldn't be so cavalier about assuring you something's safe...
BG
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