Dog People--Thoughts on worming protocol?

Question

What worming protocol do you use? Do you do yearly fecals and worm if necessary?

Do you worm on a routine? What do you use?

Just curious as to what you all do. And do you have special concerns following dog events?? Have you brought home anything "special" from a dog event?? (We brought home coccidia from a National one year)

Just general thoughts on worming protocols.

Answer 1

Here is the first of the month ritual around here.
1. Interceptor for the four dogs. Three are OK with it but one will not take anything that resembles a pill.
2. Frontline Plus. The way they act you would think I am trying to kill them.
3. Wind my Regulator wall clock.

Answer 2

My guys are on interceptor, which gets a lot of the common worms. I do not worm if I don't have to...and honestly I have never had to deworm either of my dogs. I do rally obedience mostly and have done one carting seminar, but I do take my dogs to the dog park and other areas that are often frequented by dogs who may or may not have parasites that my dogs could pick up.

My vet "recommends" yearly fecals and deworming only when necessary, but she rarely recommends them strongly enough that many clients or employees actually do them. For a while my older dog would break with blow-out diarrhea every couple of months, so she got fecals about every six months or so for the first few years we had her. Then my vet changed her fecal trio protocol to include a giardia snap test...both dogs tested positive. Now she thinks that the bouts of diarrhea that we had been dealing with for years were actually caused by giardia and that we were just not treating long enough with a strong enough antibiotic to completely kill it off so it would surface again whenever she got stressed.

Answer 3

There is no vet where I live, so when I need worm pills I ask my friends to buy worm pills for me if they happen to go out of town when I'm out of them, but if nobody I know is going out of town when I need to de-worm a dog or puppy, I use one of these two home remedies that really work.

1. Pick a large handful (or more) of grass that is more than about 8 inches long. Mix it with a can of dog food or raw hamburger. Make sure that the grass is coated in the food.
Feed it to your dog like that.
How it works: The hungry worms go straight for the food and get tangled/caught in the grass. The more and more the worms try to escape, the more tangled they get. They come out with the grass when the dog poops it out.

2. Feed the dog grease (from cooked bacon, duck, goose, etc), and/or lard.
How it works: The grease makes the dog's stomach and intestines greasy, which causes it to be very slippery for the worms. The worms have nothing to hold on to and come out in the poop. The dog may have greasy-watery poop, but the worms will be gone.

A lot of people in my town consider me as their unofficial town vet when they have problems, so I've learned a lot over the years of my short life how to treat illnesses and injuries by myself. I even learned how to treat parvo puppies before I even knew the name of it. Its a lot of work, but its worth it to save a puppy's life.

I worm my dogs every month, just to make sure that they don't have them. A lot of strays and my neighbor's dogs walk freely all over the place, and they see my dogs daily when they walk into my yard at night, so there is always a chance that my dogs may get worms from them somehow.

In the summertime I take one of my dogs to the annual community pow wow event, and the week long "treaty days" event. None of my dogs brought anything "special" home fortunately.
:)

Answer 4

both my small dogs are on sentinel and my big dog is on heartgard. while sentinel helps prevent intestinal parasites, it is not 100% effective. my little girl contracted roundworms, even though she has never missed a dose of her sentinel.

when i worked for a vet, both my small dogs came to work with me so i would do fecals on them at least every 3 months (exposure risk). now that i dont, they get fecals once or twice a year.

they do not get dewormed unless they test positive and if they went to dog events on a regular basis, they would be back on the every 3 month fecal schedule.

Answer 5

The treatment is a shot for greater extreme situations a 2d one is given 6 weeks after the 1st. After the shot the canine would desire to be stored calm and quiet (crated or leash walked) for 30 days after each and every shot then slowly enhance interest. it is to stay away from a clot shaped form the lifeless worms breaking off and inflicting a strategies, heart or lung embolism.

Answer 6

My heartworm preventative keeps my dogs wormed regularly for the 'normal' parasites. If I see a sign of parasites that aren't covered in the HW treatments, then I worm specifically for that.

Answer 7

Interceptor protects against most worms so that's the route I go. It's a monthly dose and the pills come in chewable form so it's not so hard to get my dogs to eat it, : ).

Answer 8

Just the monthly HeartGuard plus. it does intestinal parasites too. Sorry you had to go thru the coccida that can be fatal. I lost a min pin to it, it was a long fight, and we lost.
We've been to plenty dog shows. We don't do anything extra, utd on all vaccines and heartguard. I try not to let them sniff everyone butt or poo though...

Answer 9

When my dog got tapeworms it cost $150 bucks for his medicine.

Stick with preventive methods such as heartworm pills and advantage.

Answer 10

My one year old beagle takes a liquid medicine my Vet. perscibed to be safe.