I am a medical technologist who works in a hospital microbiology lab. We see worms on a daily basis. Children get worms from playing in the soil and putting their hands in their mouths. Most of these children come from good homes, not filth and squalor. Worm eggs can live for a long time in the soil, just because your dogs do not have worms, does not mean that you do not have worm eggs in your yard. Do you know for sure who was pooping on your neighbor's property before the last time it rained and washed worm eggs on to your property? Are you sure that you do not bring worm eggs into your home when you visit the grocery store and bring in fresh fruit or vegetables, do you know what has been used to fertilize all the fruit or veggies that you buy? Are you sure you washed them all off before you consumed the produce? There are places in this world where intestinal parasites are so prevalent that you can ingest them simply breathing the air, some of these places may be a little closer to home than you think.
Now, I do not deworm my pups as a matter of routine, I have them tested before treatment. I also do not have my head in the clouds by thinking that because my dogs don't have worms now that that means they will never have them.
I just want to add that insinuating that someone who has had wormy puppies has a dirty home is just downright mean.
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