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What are to symptoms of heart worms in dogs2007-11-25 2:51:05Answers:

If your dog acts like a smoker: coughing, hacking, gets out of breath from walking across a room..

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no jokin but alot of times they will drag they butt on the floor

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Sometimes there are no symtems. Dogs can go months or years without symtoms with less active dogs. Mostly they are lack of energy, lots of caughing, if you pat the dog hard on the chest and it caughs. If you suspect heart worms go to your vet, a clinic or even petco & petmart with shot clinic offer heart worm tests at reduced prices. This should be done once a year.

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Advanced heart-worm disease can cause coughing, shortness of breath, and other symptoms associated with any cardio/pulmonary disorder. Sadly it's preventable.

The best thing is to take your dog to the vet and have him tested. Then he should be treated and/or put on a good prevention routine. Something you should discuss with your vet as well.

OK this can be costly. But it's also part of the costs of pet ownership.

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it all depends what stage of the heart worm in the dog..at first you will see nothing, no symptoms at all. Only until the heart worm is in the last stages will you see your dog breathing heavier and tires him out to walk a short distance. Heart worms are exactly that a worm caused by a mosquito bite, that entertwines in the heart and starts to squeeze the heart muscle. Very deadly to the animal. You should have a blood test done on the dog and treat if necessary. If it is a negative result get him on heartworm prevention expecially if you live near water.

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Get your dog to the Vet if you even think it could have heartworms!!