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Conference misery::feline_v1

Title:Meower Power is Valuing Differences
Notice:FELINE_V1 is moving 1/11/94 5pm PST to MISERY
Moderator:MISERY::VANZUYLEN_RO
Created:Sun Feb 09 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jan 11 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5089
Total number of notes:60366

117.0. "heart worms in cats?" by FDCV01::SLAVIN () Fri Jul 19 1985 22:05

I have started to see literature regarding heart worm in cats.  Has anyone
had any problems with their cats and heart worms?
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117.1LAUREL::REMILLARDTue Jul 23 1985 13:065
	I HAVE HEARD OF THIS ALSO....  IT SEEMS VERY ISOLATED THOUGH.  
	THE AREAS THAT MAY HAVE A FEW CASES ARE VERY MUCH INFESTED 
	AND THERE HAVE BEEN CASES IN PEOPLE TOO.

	SUSAN
117.2BERGIL::WIXTue Jul 23 1985 13:427
When I asked my cats' veterinarian about this she said that it was a 
problem in the SE but not in New England. 


							.wIx.


117.3RAVEN1::HEFFELFINGERThu Jul 25 1985 17:3613
  I wouldn't go so far as to say that it is problem in the southeast.
I've been here (South Carolina) for 16 years and have owned cats the entire
time.  I also worked for a vet for 2 years of that time.  I have never seen 
a cat with heart worms.  Furthur, my vets have never reccomended any kind of 
prevention like they do for other things that cats are likely to get.
   I would believe that they are more likely here than up there, because
all parasites flourish in the hot humid weather we have.  (You don't know 
fleas til you've lived in our climate.  They love our summers and the 
winters are not severe enought to really kill them off bewteen seasons.)
But it's more a matter of happening 2 in a blue moon as compared to once in 
a blue moon.

tlh
117.4An ounce of prevention...DSSDEV::COLLINSFri May 09 1986 13:1411
	If the heartworm that attacks dogs is the same vermin in cats then 
it's not just a SE problem. I'm originally from New Jersey and our dog (a 
Newfoundland) died of heartworm. After this experience we learned there are 
simple effective ways to prevent it - namely some solution you place on their 
food. There is a season for Heartworm, it's related to the mosquitos that 
carry it. Talk to a vet, the preventive steps are simple and cost effective.


	/harry