The wild coyote population isn’t “over vaccinated, fed processed pet food, given flea & tick preventative, and are being treated with suppressive drugs for every little thing that comes along.” yet when surveyed in a non-drought year over 90% of the adult coyotes in northern Ca were heartworm positive.
Christie Keith, owner of naturally raised deerhounds, used to think the same way…. until her dogs got heartworm.
“I have no intention of ever living through what I lived through with Raven and Bran. I can’t keep silent when I see people starting to believe that healthy animals don’t get heartworm and that we can blithely forgo using preventatives if we don’t overvaccinate and feed raw. It’s just not so.
http://dogaware.com/articles/wdjheartwormprevention.html
Conventional heartworm prevention is still the best insurance against heartworms.
