When my Yorkie had it, she had no symptoms but tested positive. She was on medication because every week that I dropped of a poop sample, it was still positive. I kept seeing the same people in the waiting room at the vet's that had new pups when I brought mine for her check-up, all with Giardia poops. It was a club. After 10 days, I just let her play with the others and cleaned up her poop immediately. I had the other dogs poop checked as well, all negative. She was on medication, also because she was small and the dose was for her weight, for 4 months, Panacur.
When I bought my Mi-Ki I asked the breeder to have Mikki checked for Giardia, positive as where her 15 dogs. She didn't treat her dogs but I paid for my dog's test and medication and she kept him until he was negative which was 1 week on Panacur and a second week off and retested. I didn't pay for her keeping him longer. I also had him tested here 3 times over a 4 month period, all negative. I think if the poop is frozen that it no longer has any active parasites. I would ask your vet. I have had many dogs arrive with Giardia and all breeders act shocked or nasty when I tell them. I just isolate new pups for 10 days, paranoid about Parvo. |