OMG it's WORMS

[dwerten]

Originally Posted by Ringo1

And I know this is so not funny but you are seriously cracking me up. I don't know how long they survive.

I would definitely have her sleeping in the crate and probably NOTon my bed tonight.

lol I know i was crying she made me laugh so hard as i could just picture this whole thing - I know it is not funny but you really did crack me up

[MauiGirl]

Best to take a fecal sample to vet, as different types of worms require different meds. I personally would use the over the counter meds. It is important to get the right stuff in the right dose for her weight.

My pups have had tapeworms a couple times from licking fleas, and I think one pill from the vet wiped them out. I even was able to call my regular vet and they prescribed the pill without doing a fecal. As someone else said, they die and dry up quickly, so you might see hard little bits that look like rice where she sleeps.

Relax, it's yucky, but not life threatening to her or anyone else, and is one of the easiest things to treat. Since they are carried by fleas, make sure she is on a flea prevention med.

[RachelandSadie]

Originally Posted by dwerten

OMG I am laughing hysterically over here as I would be just as freaked out lolll I am sorry but the way you described the worm coming out of your babies butt etc omg you are cracking me up tonight.

Do worms usually happen in puppies or can they happen in older dogs as well? I have never dealt with worms and curious.

worms can happen to any dog anytime at any age esp. tapeworms which are caused by a dog ingesting a flea. even dogs on heartworm prevention and flea and tick prevention can occasionally develop a tapeworm investation. fleas can be ingested from the grass not only on their bodies. so tapeworms can mean fleas, but not always. hookworms whipworms and roundworms can be taken care of with heartworm meds and some flea and tick meds and prevented, but tapeworms are actually a common thing and nothing to be concerned over. once you know about them they are treatable. i would say of all the worms the heartworms are the most concerning, that type of treatment is VERY expensive and dangerous.

hope that helps.

[dwerten]

Originally Posted by RachelandSadie

worms can happen to any dog anytime at any age esp. tapeworms which are caused by a dog ingesting a flea. even dogs on heartworm prevention and flea and tick prevention can occasionally develop a tapeworm investation. fleas can be ingested from the grass not only on their bodies. so tapeworms can mean fleas, but not always. hookworms whipworms and roundworms can be taken care of with heartworm meds and some flea and tick meds and prevented, but tapeworms are actually a common thing and nothing to be concerned over. once you know about them they are treatable. i would say of all the worms the heartworms are the most concerning, that type of treatment is VERY expensive and dangerous.

hope that helps.

thanks as never dealt with this before. Are the worms alive usually when they come out or can they be dead?

[brendarash]

I am so sorry you are having this problem. I to had a fecal done on only one of my little ones. It was a physical. Rosie is 8 yrs old. The vet put her on pancur, This was about a month ago. The vet never told me to keep her off the bed or furniture.I had no idea that they come out while resting. yuck. Now my question is why didnt she put the rest of them on the meds as well. After reading this I am totally grossed out and I just went online to petmeds.com and ordered pancur for the rest of my group (5). I have not had fleas in a year and a half, since I fostered and one other foster Mom did have fleas and was so wonderful to share them with the rest of us. lol So that must mean that Rosie had them for a while. Unless she got them from the rescue when she was there for two weeks back in April. Well I am going to re treat Rosie and the rest of them as well. As I lay here with the whole group laying on my bed.yum! Well I guess it is to late now to put them down off the bed.Is the only way they get worms( WHIP WORMS ) is from flea eggs? That is what the vet called them.Thanks for the info. Brenda, Jackie,Sadie, Rosie,Julie, Lilly, and Romeo

[Maddie23]

Originally Posted by dwerten

OMG I am laughing hysterically over here as I would be just as freaked out lolll I am sorry but the way you described the worm coming out of your babies butt etc omg you are cracking me up tonight.

Do worms usually happen in puppies or can they happen in older dogs as well? I have never dealt with worms and curious.

my question as well - well, I guess another question!!!

as I said, she is not a puppy, she is 2 1/2 years old and as prissy as she is, you would think she would know better than to have a WORM come out of her BUTT!!!! don't worry, the Vet is in for a lot of questions monday a.m. I have NEVER seen a flea on her, she scratches from time to time, but I have never found a flea and her hair is cut in a really short puppy cut right now for summer so as much time as she spends in my lap, I think I would have seen it (had no problem seeing a WORM). We have a pool in the backyard so spend a lot of time out there, I and one of my daughers are the sort that if there were fleas in the grass we would be bitten up from them. Not to say she couldn't have picked up a flea and the Sentinel kept it from multiplying, just saying we don't have a flea problem. So, yeah, lucky me that she finds the ONE flea that is infested and gives her the darn worms! Don't know why I wouldn't think I'd be so lucky..... I'm the one that has a skinkid to prove the pill isn't 100% effective!!!

Glad I can at least make someone smile... believe me, I AM NOT AMUSED AT ALL !!!! You all should have seen me in my chair with a big blue towel covering me (thought a white worm would show up good on a blue towel!!). Now I put brown towels down under her crate just in case the little beasties can crawl out of her bed, up the sides or out the front door of her carry crate and out and about into my bedroom!!!! Of course, as I was typing this, she comes in the spare bedroom where the computer is and jumps up on the bed and where does she decide to lay her little wormy butt???? On the folded throw at the end of the bed??? Oh heavens no.... she jumps up, turns her circles, and plops her little behind right on top of the pillows!!! Ok, off to pull pillowcases off and into the washer........ scratching as I go....worms crawling all over me...... EEEWWWWWWWWWWWW

[Rhetts_mama]

Originally Posted by dwerten

thanks as never dealt with this before. Are the worms alive usually when they come out or can they be dead?

It can be either way. They die fairly quickly once out. Either way, it's pretty gross.

[Maddie23]

Originally Posted by RachelandSadie

worms can happen to any dog anytime at any age esp. tapeworms which are caused by a dog ingesting a flea. even dogs on heartworm prevention and flea and tick prevention can occasionally develop a tapeworm investation. fleas can be ingested from the grass not only on their bodies. so tapeworms can mean fleas, but not always. hookworms whipworms and roundworms can be taken care of with heartworm meds and some flea and tick meds and prevented, but tapeworms are actually a common thing and nothing to be concerned over. once you know about them they are treatable. i would say of all the worms the heartworms are the most concerning, that type of treatment is VERY expensive and dangerous.

hope that helps.

thanks for the explanation, although you haven't helped by saying tapeworms are common.... like it is something she can get AGAIN. I really don't think I'm gonna like this!!!!

"but tapeworms are actually a common thing and nothing to be concerned over"

ha ha you sound like my vet sounded over the phone... as I told him, unless you have found one crawling on your stomach that just came out of your princess's little BUTT, you really don't know how concerned I am!!! j/k of course!

so.... these tapeworms.... are they the same ones that if they get in a human's stomach they grow and grow and eat everything you eat and you lose weight????? hmmmmmmmm..........nawwwwwww.... probly not a good weight loss idea......

[dwerten]

Originally Posted by Rhetts_mama

It can be either way. They die fairly quickly once out. Either way, it's pretty gross.

wow glad i missed all this excitement lol Have 3 and never had this unpleasant experience lol I guess I am super lucky

Op you gave me a great laugh tonight though. I hope you can kill those things quick lol. You are so funny. I hope you can sleep tonight too and no worm nightmares lol

[RachelandSadie]

lol you are hilarious tonight. haha. i'm just trying not to frighten you. they are common in a vet hospital. NOT common for a dog to have like a million times. common as not ER type of thing. lol. i mean if you don't treat for fleas i guess you'd be in for a lifetime of possible reinvestations of tapeworms, but if ur treating for fleas u should be fine. she may get them again one day, maybe never again.

just common enough not to worry about them causing damage over the weekend is all. i know it's gross and oh so not fun. and defin. not such a calm thing when you see one on your lap. i'd have jumped to the ceiling.

[RachelandSadie]

oh you guys speaking of nightmares i have to share this. the other night dh went outside to the truck to get a notebook for his job. he didn't come in for awhile and then he ran in for a flashlight. i'm like what's wrong. he goes back out and i go out too. he tells me that he just killed a tarantula. i'm like WHERE omgosh. we go look in the grass and then i turn the light back to the driveway and there is a huge WOLF spider laying dead. of course we took pictures of the thing, if you want to see it PM me, i won't post it on here since some are aracnaphobic and it's not fun to see a pic. of something ur afraid of online.

anyways had to share and dh made me laugh so hard cause he said a neighbor drove by and he was out in just his shorts bashing the "driveway" with an extended ice scraper. i'm sure they thought he was crazy..

but yea i had the heebie jeebies all night long. :S

[Maddie23]

Originally Posted by orlnurse

Once the worm comes out, it dries up then looks like a grain of uncooked rice. I don't think they survive long once they are out because there is no host. The worms tend to come out when the dog is still which is most likely when they are sleeping. You'll probably see some on her bedding in the morning. This happened to me about a month ago and I rushed both pups to the vet even though only one had symptoms. Now I know even though its really gross, its not an emergency. Even though they are on a preventative, its a fluke that they ingest the one contaminated flea. Max was treated with Drontal Plus; 1 tablet and then 1 more tablet in exactly 3 weeks.

ok, just when I thought it couldn't get ANY worse...

earlier, I had the bright idea to wash my Maddie's bed out of her crate. it is a rectangular shape bed with sides. As I flipped the bed inside out to wash, small "things" dropped onto the washer. I got a wet paper towel and wiped them up to look at. They were small tan hard "things" a little bigger than a flea and fatter, but not quite as big as a grain of rice. I even broke one in half with my fingernail (smart, huh?). Odd, I thought to myself, must have come out of her bed.... so, then I decide to get a wet papertowel and wipe out the inside of her crate while her bed was washing. Looked at the papertowel and see another 6 - 8 "things" along with some hair and dust (I know, I was amazed to find dust in my house too!)

Now I read this and figure out that those little hard "things" were probably DRIED UP WORMS.
THAT MEANS SHE HAS HAD THEM FOR AT LEAST SEVERAL DAYS
THAT MEANS THEY HAVE PROBABLY BEEN ON ME EVERY NIGHT! (she sleeps on my lap before we go to bed)

as I said earlier:
ewwwwwww, ewwwwwww, and more ewwwwwww

I am definately going to go have a glass of wine.....or the whole bottle...... goodnite everyone, and thanks for your input. If you read about anyone from Texas being carted off to the funny farm talking about worms all over them, it's probably me....

I may never eat rice again...

[Ringo1]

Originally Posted by Maddie23

ok, just when I thought it couldn't get ANY worse...

earlier, I had the bright idea to wash my Maddie's bed out of her crate. it is a rectangular shape bed with sides. As I flipped the bed inside out to wash, small "things" dropped onto the washer. I got a wet paper towel and wiped them up to look at. They were small tan hard "things" a little bigger than a flea and fatter, but not quite as big as a grain of rice. I even broke one in half with my fingernail (smart, huh?). Odd, I thought to myself, must have come out of her bed.... so, then I decide to get a wet papertowel and wipe out the inside of her crate while her bed was washing. Looked at the papertowel and see another 6 - 8 "things" along with some hair and dust (I know, I was amazed to find dust in my house too!)

Now I read this and figure out that those little hard "things" were probably DRIED UP WORMS.
THAT MEANS SHE HAS HAD THEM FOR AT LEAST SEVERAL DAYS
THAT MEANS THEY HAVE PROBABLY BEEN ON ME EVERY NIGHT! (she sleeps on my lap before we go to bed)

as I said earlier:
ewwwwwww, ewwwwwww, and more ewwwwwww

I am definately going to go have a glass of wine.....or the whole bottle...... goodnite everyone, and thanks for your input. If you read about anyone from Texas being carted off to the funny farm talking about worms all over them, it's probably me....

I may never eat rice again...

You are TOO funny. I'll bet you didn't get one wink of sleep last night; worm patrol is exhausting. Let's see . .. I'll bet the bed got stripped; the linens washed; the washing machine disinfected and you were watching her butt all night long to see what else comes out of there.

Monday will be here soon and you can get your medication and get rid of those nasty things.

I hear you on the rice; I felt the same way.

[annbags]

I feel for you. I have 2 cats that are major hunters so I have dealt with worms. My first experience was my Lucy puking up a pile of live ones on my kitchen floor!!!!! It was like a horror movie. Anyway, now they get them all the time. Especially in the spring when the hunting is in full force. They get them from fleas and from eating rodents. I give them frontline for the fleas but I can't control the rodent hunting.
Anyway, the small pieces (proglottids) you find on the bedding and sometimes attached to their fur on their back ends are pieces of the tapeworm that break off and are expelled through their butts. They look like cucumber seeds (never want to eat cucumbers again huh?!!) They are alive when they first come out and if they find a host, they will develop into a long tapeworm. I have 3 children and was totally freaked out by this. Most of the ones I've found are dried out and dead. If you google tapeworm you can read about/see pics of these. DON'T DO IT IF YOU'RE REALLY SQUEAMISH!!!It will just freak you out more.
It's been about 2 years since my first experience and while it still grosses me out, I'm getting used to it. My vet gives us Drontal tablets and that takes care of it (until they ingest another) If my puppy gets one I will cry but at least I know what it is and that it can be treated.You'll get through it. However, I'm sure you'll be a constant "butt checker" like I am now!!!!

[Speed]

We never had tapeworms with our little girl, but the first night we got our little boy, we discovered them while shaving him. We actually saw the worms crawling on his back. We looked it up online and found out they were tapeworms, and we put him in his crate next to the couch and I slept by him. The next morning, the towel we left in the crate was covered with them. Unfortunately, it was Sunday, and we had to wait till Monday to go to the vet, but it wasn't as bad Sunday. Monday came around and the vet gave us the de-worming pill and that took care of it really fast. He ended up getting them again a few weeks later, and we did another de-worming. Since then, he's been worm free for at least a year. And we have them on Sentinel and never miss, but as others have said, it doesn't protect against tapeworm.