Doctor Mike
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And like with ostriches, I think they had like really a wide variety of llamas and stuff.
Maybe not ostriches, maybe it was llamas.
It was a very wildlife exposed community.
So I think that's where it came from because we were giving it to him and he was fine.
And all of a sudden he converted or the first time we tested in the city, he was zero positive.
They did like a confirmation test or whatever it is, the secondary.
Yeah, because you have the initial screening and then you have the confirmation test.
It was confirmed.
And then afterwards, every time they test for heartworm, he gets positive.
I'm like, I know, I know.
I was actually doing a lot of research at that time trying to figure out, this is super specific and probably the audience, like we don't care.
I was trying to figure out whether or not I should treat him with doxy given the fact that perhaps he had no symptoms.
So he ended up having joint weirdness.
And I wasn't sure that he... Again, because it wasn't clear with a dog his size, is he just having a pulled muscle?
Is his joint achy?
Is it Lyme disease?
So you're like, you know what?
Better safe than sorry.
Yeah, I would have treated him.
Very true.