how do dogs get heartworms?????

Question

I just wanted to post this so as to get tsome more awareness out about heartwormmm..... I do not know if it is allowed for me to awnser my own question but i am....

Dogs ge heartworms by misquitos..... they bite and infected dog then buite and uninfected dog transporting the larva to new dog.... Please get you dog on heartworm preverntive... heartworms is the number one killer of dogs in the u.s.

Gee doesn't anyone want the ten points for best awnser???? all you have to do is add somthing....supporting or even arguing with me lol

Answer 1

I use Revolution to protect my dogs. .. My breed is sensitive to most chemicals, and most preventatives cause them problems, but Revolution is effective protection against heartworm, Lyme's disease, West Nile, fleas, ticks, mange mites, ear mites, roundworms, and many other parasites. All for just $13 per month and applying a spot on the skin between shoulders...

So many dogs die needlessly of heartworm..

Answer 2

Dogs are considered the definitive host for heartworms (Dirofilaria immitis). However, heartworms may infect more than 30 species of animals (e.g., coyotes, foxes, wolves and other wild canids, domestic cats and wild felids, ferrets, sea lions, etc.) and humans as well. When a mosquito carrying infective heartworm larvae bites a dog and transmits the infection, the larvae grow, develop, and migrate in the body over a period of several months to become sexually mature male and female worms. These reside in the heart, lungs, and associated blood vessels. Even as immature adults, the worms mate and the females release their offspring (microfilariae), pronounced: (micro fil ar ee), into the blood stream. The time elapsed from when the larvae enter the dog until the minute offspring can be detected in the blood (pre-patent period) is about six to seven months. The male heartworms (four to six inches in length) and the females (10-12 inches) become fully grown about one year after infection, and their life span in dogs appears to be at least five to seven years.

Answer 3

Yes, I know you have to watch out for hearworm. It is good just to show the other people out there that this is some thing you need to worry about when you get a dog. That you need to go to the vet to them heargard.

Answer 4

misquitos carry heartworm and infect the dogs with it when they bite your dog.

Answer 5

yep yep yep. Mine get theirs everymonth.

Answer 6

i think they get it my eating a sick/infected flea. thats what my mom told me.