Maximizing kitty cat wellness at home, basically environmental factors. A lot depends on the indoors or outdoors, but essentially proper nutrition, keeping them current on vaccinations, flea and tick controls, proper exercise, and playing with them. Grooming, making sure they're grooming and making sure they're on time for their vet visits is also an important factor.

Six months of age. We could put them on prevention much earlier before that, but the time to test them to see if they have adult worms - at the earliest - would be at six months.

So there have been studies and some of these studies have shown that even 25% of pets that are indoors can get heartworm. You might ask, “How how can my dog get heartworm if they’re only indoors? The same way that we get mosquito bites and we're indoors; a mosquito can fly inside and bite your pet or feed from your pet. Som yes, even indoor pets can get heartworm or you take your indoor dog for a walk or they go out for potty. So there are cases in which indoor dogs do tend to get heartworm as well, so they also need to be on prevention.