Dog Heartworm Treatment

Okay sorry to bother but im a little upset today. In may i adopted a american pitbull puppy, my in laws adopted the brother that was identical to mine. Everything has been great with my puppy, has all his shots and knows tons of tricks. He is absolutely the smartest dog i have ever had, not to forget to mention he is a indoor dog. Now today my sil called me to say that she found her puppy dead! I asked her were there any signs of the pup being sick and she said yes, for a week it had diarhea and lost lots of weight and could not open his mouth to eat or drink water. I figured that he must have been very dehydrated. When we first got the dogs i got my dewormed, in which he had lots of worms and we had to repeat the process twice before they were gone. We told them and they never got the dewormed or vaccinations! They live in some huge home on a oepn field so they have mice and lots of them, do you think the dog ate a mouse or do you think parvo or some sort of disease by the symptoms i told you? Im worried cause a few weeks ago we were evacuated from our home due to the fires in california and had to stay with them for 2 days. I know parvo is contagious, my dog is dog aggressive so we kept them seperated but my pup was in the sectioned off part of the yard that they made for their dog. I really dont want my dog to get whatever he had & im very sad that the dog died…I love animals like you would not believe sad over this. In your opinion what do you think it could have been? Also the pup was about 8 months and he was soooo beautiful… I really think that some people should not own dogs cause if this were my case he would have went to the vet… Sorry to vent on here but none of my little bit of friends care for animals and think im crazy for bein sooo sad..

Ok.. my daughter who is 19 months old.. developed a low grade fever Friday afternoon which continued on till Sunday, when her temp spiked to 103.6. So we took her to the ER and had her checked out, her only other symptom to the fever is a runny nose, clingy, tired all the time, and a little cough. The docs checked her chest (did an xray), they did a catheter to check for UTI, they did blood work and nothing came back with anything… so they said to continue to do motrin/tylenol every four hours like we have been doing. Today is Tuesday and she still has the fever, not quite so high.. but still restless sleep, eating pretty good I would say, and drinking lots of fluid. But she still has a fever that won’t go away. I called our doc.. but she hasn’t gotten back to us yet!!! So what the heck? I’ve tried luke warm baths, I’ve put only a t-shirt on her to run around in, she sleeps with just a sheet, and she still wakes up crying and whimpering. My DH just got home and we found out our puppy we just got has worms… can this be why my daughter might be sick? I’m going to talk to the doc when she calls, but I’m just wondering if this is a cause? She doesn’t really like the dog, so she doesn’t touch him. And if he goes in the house I immediately pick it up and clean the carpet… so what can cause a fever for 4 days and continuing? And why would the docs not give her antibiotics when she is this sick and obviously her body is trying to fight something off??? Sorry.. just a worried mom who never had to do this with my 3 y/o. Any advice would be great… thanks everyone!!

We took my Bull Terrier to the breeder nearly two weeks ago to have her studded.. She’s been acting normal and excited just as before, but she’s had terrible diarrhea.. The breeder used a bit of his food when my dog’s ran out.. I know that can cause diarrhea but she’s been on Science Diet Sensitive Stomach since she’s been home and its not gotten better. Last night she rubbed her butt on the carpet, but there’s no worms in her stool.. I suspected tapeworms, but she’s never had fleas at our house and I’m not sure how quickly she would show symptoms of tapeworms if she caught them from the breeder’s kennel.. But she didn’t come home with any fleas. Also, around the inside of her anus is black stuff.. Its not feces, but its also not alive. Is it possible that its the feces of any worms she may have? Thanks

I am doing this three day collection of my dog’s feces to take to the vets for whipworm testing as he has the symptoms.
What is the treatment for whipworm? Pills? Shots?
If he is treated for whipworms do I need to take a day or two off to be home to take him outside constantly? Does the treatment cause frequent pooping?
I’d rather miss some pay and stay home than to come home to feces everywhere due to worming.
Thanks.

almost 2 weeks ago a lab puppy was dumped at the store where i work. he’s been wormed and had his first shots, and is gaining weight.
but i think he may have heartworm.
i’ve never had a dog with heartworm, but i believe at least one symptom is coughing. which Monroe does constantly.
can someone please tell me the symptoms?
and treatment?
in the past, i’ve always understood it would be a lifetime of meds. but things have changed.
what about surgery?