Ended Official BYC Contest - Guess when we'll hit 22,222,222 million posts and you can win!

[BDutch]

Thank You!

Hey Kiki, Did you forget to enter Silkies for life in the excel sheet?
Congrats and another for @Silkies for life

 

[Ursuline Chick]

1st place is @MROO
2nd place is @ArcherChaos
3rd place is @WhatTheDuckingDuck

Congrats to all the winners

 

[Kiki]

Hey Kiki, Did you forget to enter Silkies for life in the excel sheet?
Congrats and another for @Silkies for life

The/my Google sheet is not real. I totally messed up by not triple checking all entries.
I have learned my lesson, I will triple check all future contests.

 

[Sapphire Sebright]

1st place is @MROO
2nd place is @ArcherChaos
3rd place is @WhatTheDuckingDuck

Congratulations, guys! Woooo!

 

[ShrekDawg]

I did a search... cats do get heartworm so yes, you're supposed to treat them. You'd need to know the doseage, then you could use this, or get a prescription one from your vet or online.

This below is for dogs. I couldn't find info written for cats and the doseage per body weight might be different for cats.
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Thanks!

 

[ShrekDawg]

To each there own, I'm not criticizing anyone but I do feel obliged to point a couple things out in case anyone doesn't know..
Large doses of ivermectin can be toxic, and dogs can die from too many microfilariae dying at once. Ivermectin is also used for cats but I would be very very worried about overdosing.
Also, some ivermectin products are not pure ivermectin (like ivermec) and can kill dogs. Sorry if that was already covered in the link.
Ivermectin can also negatively interact with spinosad which is a relatively common flea preventative.
And importantly.. ivermectin does NOT kill adult heartworms. It will kill the microfilariae but the adults will stay in the heart and lungs for years until their natural death. In the meantime they will do significant damage to those organs. Ivermectin is sometimes used as a cheap "treatment" for heartworms (called the "slow kill method") but it is highly avoided at all costs specifically because of the long-term damage done. A heartworm positive animal treated with ivermectin will show up negative on a heartworm test.

Very interesting!!! Thank you!!! So guessing it would be safer to just buy actual heart worm medicine then for the cat? She’s only like 9 lbs so pretty small so don’t want to overdose her

 

[Tesumph]

Very interesting!!! Thank you!!! So guessing it would be safer to just buy actual heart worm medicine then for the cat? She’s only like 9 lbs so pretty small so don’t want to overdose her

That is what I would do.

 

[ShrekDawg]

That is what I would do.

Okay thanks! Im gonna order some.

 

[Tesumph]

Okay thanks! Im gonna order some.

I use advantage multi for the dogs, cats, and ferrets. It covers just about everything including fleas and ear mites.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I use advantage multi for the dogs, cats, and ferrets. It covers just about everything including fleas and ear mites.

Sorry, just saw this

Thanks for the tip! I’ll have to get that one! So I wouldn’t have to use the topical flea and tick stuff anymore?