So here's a trickier question than some people may think, 80% of cats are asymptomatic from showing signs of heartworms....
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This is a great question because it depends on where you live in the country. Heartworm isn't a common disease in California....
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I like to start vaccines between that six and eight weeks of age, as that's kind of the ideal place to start....
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If we don't prevent heartworm, the chronic lung disease in cats will eventually become resistant to treatment and become fatal....
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Great question....
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As we said, inflammatory conditions of the lungs....
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There are not. Vector and mosquito control can help, but still, those preventative products are essential....
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No, nothing works....
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Weight loss, open mouth breathing, coughing and labored breathing, and often vomiting. Cats tend to vomit with many different diseases....
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Core vaccines are the essential, don't-pass-on-these vaccines. And they include things such as rhinotracheitis, which is a herpes virus....
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X-rays, monitoring, and bracing owners that this cat may go into a fatal crisis when this heartworm dies (they live about two years)....
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That's a really hard question because, as we said, a lot of cats don't even show symptoms, so it can vary from cat to cat....
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No, because they don't have microfilaria, we can go ahead and put them on preventatives....
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No, all heartworms have to go into a mosquito for part of their life cycle before being transmitted to another animal.
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The heartworm cycle in a cat is when a mosquito bites the cat and injects a baby worm into the cat’s skin....
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Cat heartworm is an internal parasite that causes significant lung damage. Cats become infected by being bit by mosquitoes.
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It's a parasite that lives inside. A mosquito injects these worms into the body of the cat, and it migrates toward the lungs.
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That's a good question and one that I think has gotten lost in the shuffle over the years....
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It depends on the salon. Certain salons have a lot of experience with cats....
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That's a good question. Again, it will differ between cats....