"This is Amber (a photo of their beautiful dog was attached to their email which they sent to me - I will happily provide his email upon request to verify all if needed), for the last five years she has been having seizures.
Every year, for the last five years, when we took her into the Show Low vet clinic for her annual checkup we would tell the vet about the seizures she was having about once every month. This last year we had a special blood test run, costing aprox $180 to check everything out. It turned out negative.
They never told us the seizures were listed as a side effect of the Heartguard medicine.
She would run about fifty yards, chasing a rabbit, fall over with her back feet waving in the air, then recover and seem normal again. Scared the heck out of my wife and me.
We live in Apache County and do not have internet access. I went into the library in June of this year, after we had just bought a year’s supply of the Heartguard medication, got on the internet and found out about the effects of the Heartguard medication. It stated that in a collie like dog you should not even prescribe Heartguard as they have a mutated gene which causes seizures and possibly death from a reaction to the pesticide ivernectin.
It is now October of 2013; she has been without a seizure for three months and is beginning to act normally once again. I went in and returned our year’s supply of Heartguard, and with my low and polite voice and a copy of your posting and others laid on their desk, they returned our money.
Thank you very much for your posting. Yours and others helped me assist my dog which I love very much. Richard... "
