Take the dog to another vet. Every dog needs to be tested for heartworm before starting a heartworm preventive program. The only time that a heart worm test is not required is when you have faithfully given the dog it's heartworm preventive year round and even then the vet will have you sign a release.Hello,
we adopted a 11 week-old puppy a couple of weeks ago and went to a vet with her this past week for a puppy exam.
I did not feel very comfortable after leaving. First off, they did a fecal test and found out that she has worms. We were given some pills for her and they also told us to start her on heartworm prevention, gave us a 1-month free sample of Sentinel.
I did some research and found out that you should not start your dog on heartworm prevention until the dog was tested for it. They did not test her though and still told us to start the pills.
We did not give her the pill yet and are thinking about switching to another vet.
Another thing is that the technician was talking to us about how to housetrain our dog and after we told her that we are not crate training she basically told us we are not doing it correctly then and that dogs her age can hold it for about 8 hours! She is only 3 months old so i always thought they can only hold it the number of months they are plus one??
What do you guys think?
As for a puppy holding his or her bladder for 8 hours I would have asked her if she can hold her bladder for 8 hours. She probably would have said no and then I would have said then what makes you think a puppy can. Do babies hold there bladder for 8 hours?.
Ask friends and relatives what vet they use and if they are happy with them. If they are then go to that vet. If this vet was recommended to you that gave you the WRONG answers then tell the person that recommended that vet to find another vet also.
