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<DIV><FONT face=Baltimore color=#800000><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000>Sitting with a dog that is sick and in pain just breaks my heart
and it can be so easily prevented. <BR>It's just not worth the chance that
one mosquito will bite them and make them sick. Nuff
said.<BR> <BR>Dottie</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Baltimore color=#800000><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000>I understand where you and others are coming from. I truly
do. A lot of you that rescue see alot of dogs from
some </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Baltimore color=#800000><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000>bad situations. But, I had a dog collapse and end
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<DIV><FONT face=Baltimore color=#800000><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000>up in the hospital for 4 days in ICU because of 1 dose of
prevention. In the 20 years since I have not
used</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>chemical prevention, and I have not had 1 dog test postitive for
heartworms.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Baltimore color=#800000><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000><STRONG>First a mosquito has to bite an infected dog</STRONG> and
suck up baby worms. It then takes a month inside the female mosquito
for baby worms to develop.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Baltimore color=#800000><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000>After a month that <STRONG>same infected mosquito</STRONG>
has to bite another dog to inject the teenage worms. Considering
the majority of female mosquitoes only live 2 or 3
week</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>the odds of an infected mosquito infecting a non infected dog are rather
slim. Mosquitoes don't travel miles more then a couple hundred feet
from where they hatch. </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Baltimore color=#800000><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000>My dogs are only out when I let them out. They are not out
all night (or have access to a doggy door) or before dawn. Because I
am fanatical about West Nile Disease I am </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Baltimore color=#800000><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000>fanatical about NO standing water. We also do not use
pesticides or herbicides on our property. That way we do not kill natural
mosquito preditors like </FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Baltimore color=#800000><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000>dragonflies. I always enjoy seeing the dragonflies out and
about. During the summer months I spritz the dogs with skin-so-soft/water
mix.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Baltimore color=#800000><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000>And chemical prevention doesn't always work. You spend
hundreds of dollars on the prevention and the manufacturers still want you to
test.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Baltimore color=#800000><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000>I'm not advocating going without prevention if you live where
mosquitos are numerous or your dogs are out all the time or even in an area
where there are alot of dogs. but for those who are
concerned</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Baltimore color=#800000><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=#000000>with year round chemical intake of your dogs, or just want
to raise your dogs in the most natural healthy way, it is
possible.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Baltimore color=#800000>Cathy Blatz<BR><A
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