Heartgard is basically a measure of preventing heartworm by killing the infected worms before they get a chance to grow into full-sized adult heartworms in order to cause heart diseases. Heartgard has medicine in it which tends to kill parasites and bugs by causing some neurological damage to them and also kills external parasites including lice and mites. All in all, Heartgard is lethal when it comes to parasites, either small or large, and for both external and internal.

Silky Terrier Dog Breed Playing Aro... Silky Terrier Dog Breed Playing Around

Dogs are different from cats and other animals and you don’t have to deceive them to provide them with this medication. All you need to do is to give your dog a chewable tablet once a month either in its meal or separately and let it chew the tablet. The best way is to put it inside the food which the dogs enjoy a lot. Heartgard must be used at that time of the year when mosquitos are more active than usual. The first dose should be provided within the first month of the dog’s exposure to mosquitos or bugs.

If given with food, dogs will take no longer than a few hours to digest Heartgard. However, in accordance with a study conducted by researchers, it is revealed that dogs require at least 3 full days to make this medicine a part of their bodies. So, the drug stays in the dog’s belly even after some time of eating it. Some dogs have this issue of throwing the drug out while chewing it or after that which needs to be avoided. The reason is that there is no better way to cure it than to use Heartgard, So, make sure that your dog doesn’t waste the dose given to it.