'French Heartworm' found in Scotland

[Kerry_and_Beau]

glad he's ok, were the syptoms similar to KC?

[GSPmad]

can have a variety of symptoms. have a look at these links. 

http://www.parkvets.com/patients/disease_info_library/french_heartworm.html

http://www.k9centre.co.uk/heartworm.php

http://www.putlandsvets.com/news/lungworm-questions-and-answers/

[Kerry_and_Beau]

thank you for that info, very informative 

[travis]

Symptoms were very similar to KC to start with,but he was getting worse everyday,he also stopped eating

[Kerry_and_Beau]

good job you were persistant and got a second opinion 

[Relay]

The reason i was looking at more prevention than cure is because it seems they don't actually have to eat a snail to get it - they can get it from the slime snails leave behind & you can't really avoid that because it's everywhere. Cass sometimes nips a piece of long grass and chews it when we are out and there's no way of knowing what's been on it.

[GSPmad]

i think prevention is either regular chemical worming or regular faeces samples to check for the larvae (if you see last link) unless anyone else knows any different?

[travis]

I was advised to worm Travis every 4 weeks with Panacur