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Originally Posted by CandB  Thanks Mardelin...it turns out that my baby girl did have tapeworms. Took quite a fight with the vet - I eventually had to bring in just the worms themselves and show them to him to get him to diagnose. Both puppies were prescribed a dose of Drontal. Hopefully this will take care of the problem! |
Usually tapeworm is not transferrable, unless somehow they have got into each other's stools. But, it is always safe to treat both of them. Drontol is the recommended prescription, usually 2 doses, given at 2 week intervals.
I know I went into the vets screaming with the worms in a baggie to show them. I'd been fighting with 2 different vets for 2 weeks.....I just couldn't understand it, why they had to send the sample out to the lab, when I could see the worms myself. The original samples had the worms in them......
My vet in Texas did fecal samples for fifteen dollars. Both these vets here charged $45.00 bucks to send them to an incompetent lab......Grrrrrrrr.