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Originally Posted by WinstonMom  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. |
You took what was said and turned it around. It was not said that her dogs got worms from a dirty house. It was said that IF (The key word here), she had an ongoing worm problem, that warranted her worming every litter iof puppies that her adult dogs had worms. And IF her adult dogs had worms that they were tramsmitting to her puppies, that they woluld also leave them anywhere in the house.
SHE is the one that was insisting that all dogs have worms. If her dogs don't have worms then she would KNOW that statement to be untrue. Which leads one to believe that she does have an ongoing worm problem.
Her statments have changed from the beginning of the thread. So I asm hoping that she fast least has begun to realize that not all dogs have worms, and that if your adult dogs are worm free, then chances are that your puppies will be also.
And at the very least, before you routinely feed them poison 5 times before they go to their new homes, that you hve a stool sample checked to make sure the poison is necessary.