[kalina82]

Originally Posted by JeanieK

Just for the record. I worm my puppies, and I have never had a sick puppy, nor have any of my buyers ever had a sick puppy.

Until this last time. One breeder said her puppy had giardia although it had no signs of it. Another buyer bought two puppis. Her vet said they both had hook worms, no giardia. Another buyer said her vet found no worms at all.

just because they have something doesn't mean they are going to show signs. I checked Morgan's vet records the other day to see when she had her puppy shots and i came across her first vet first records. She had whips and coccidea. all she had was diarrhea when i took her in and showed no other signs of anything being wrong. i was prescribed the proper medications, gave them to her and never had to deal with it again. I called the breeder and told her what morgan had and she said she had no idea morgan had these things when she left her house. obviously she did tho. you can take two stool samples from the same puppy and have eggs found in one sample, but none in the other. you are not going to find eggs in every sample. same goes with litter mates.

Now these puppies all ate the same food, drank the same water, nursed from the same mother. Yet the only two that had the same worms were the two that went to the same vet.

eating, drinking, and nursing from the same have nothing to do with it.

And still none of my dogs here showed any signs of anything.
so sure seems strange to me.

I did however make the decision to worm each and every dog again, just to be sure. Because I would never want to sell someone a sick puppy.

and that's a good thing.

You want to judge me for what I posted, when I have read post after post on here where someone has come on saying they want to breed dog X to dog Y, that the vet said it was ok, and the breeders and non breeders on here have torn them apart telling them not to listen to the vet cause he is not a breeder blah blah blah.

And time after time someone has asked about something that their vet had said one thing and they were told to get a second opinion.

And the Op said she took her dog to another vet and that vet found no signs of coccidia.

the topic of this thread and these two subjects you addressed are totally different. vets do not know the breed standard of every dog. it is not their concern. and you cannot know that what people come on here saying is true. sure they could have taken their female to the vet and asked if it was ok to breed to another yorkie and their vet said yes, because physically the dog is ok to be bred safely.

vets like doctors are not perfect. some are scum and will do anything to make a buck but that is not the case with all. some are also behind in the times, or fresh out of school so they don't have the experience or all the newest knowledge. that is why its good to sometimes get a second opinion. or if what your vet is doing isn't working and your concerned, its good to get a second opinion. you'd do the same if it was your health and your doctors.

however something like worms that can be easily tested and treated for a couple bucks is different. and to suggest that they would take the time to "plant" the eggs in a stool sample to make a few dollars is absurd. who has the time for that? they do not make money off stool samples and worm medication. its not worth the time or effort to fudge results to make 5 extra dollars.