Happy New Beginning Sweet Pea. Enjoy your new wonderful family. I hope you are ready for a lot of belly rubs! Read below for Sweet Pea’ s story.
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Meet Sweet Pet. She is a 2 years old red lab. She is 65 pounds and that is her perfect weight. She is super sweet and great with other dogs. She loved to play with O.C. at the vet office. Sweet Pea is Heartworm positive and she will be ready to adopt as soon as she is treated. Come back in a couple of days for an update from foster mom.
UPDATE FROM FOSTER MOM: Sweet Pea is such a happy girl. She found all the toys and she plays very well with other dogs. She is very well mannered and she had not accidents in the house so she is most likely housebroken. She is smart and figured out the doggie door in 5 minutes. She loves hugs and kisses. She is not fond of cats so not cats for Miss Sweet Pea.
How long is the treatment for heartworm? Once they are treated is there any other treatments needed for heartworm and when could she be adopted out?
Is she mixed with anything or just pure lab? She’s beautiful!
Once they are fully treated you just give them HW preventative as you do to your other dogs. They do not really need to be completely separate from other dogs but they are not supposed to play for a few weeks so if your dog is very active it will be a little hard to keep a dog who has just been treated calm. How calm will also depend on how long the dog had heartworms (i.e. if he/she is strong positive).
We have another 2 year old lab/ hound mix but I don’t know if we would be able to keep them separated for 4-6 weeks … 🙁 he loves to play!