E-mail Service to Remind You When to Give Dog Medications

In case you forget, RemindMyPet.com is a service of Novartis Animal Health to remind you to give medications to your dogs. It's an electronic tap on the shoulder, if you will.

"The idea is to hound owners into doing what the veterinarian said. It's easy to forget what the veterinarian said. It's easy to forget when to give monthly treatments and preventives. An American Animal Hospital Association survey, for example, showed that less than half of dogs got their heartworm prevention medication as recommended. It's even easier to quit giving medications such as antibiotics when a dog seems well again, even though the drug is still needed."

The service is free. Your personal information is not supposed to be sold or distributed. You can sign up at www.remindmypet.com.

For all of you who give your dogs heartworm "prevention," here is now no excuse for forgetting and another reason for not EVER getting your dogs the ProHeart 6 injection just because it's "convenient"!