White worm-like things in dog’s feces?
Friday, May 21st, 2010 at
2:27 pm
I’ve been observing white 1/4 white worm-like things in my dog’s feces. They don’t appear to be moving, and they’re not consistent. They also seem to come out of his anus at night, his bed sometimes has shriveled up little versions of them. They look like small grains of rice. I brought a sample into the vet for a fecal test, and they said he doesn’t have worms. Any ideas on what this could be?
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Gross.
Tape worm. Your vet doesn’t know?
My dog had those I wormed him and they went away. The worms might be dead when they come out.
It sounds like tape worms. Call your vet and they can give you a pill to kill them. If you let it get too bad your dog may start having diarrhea and vomiting (this happened to mine).
your dog has worms and even if they appear dead they have laid eggs in your dogs intestines and there will be more you need to call your vet and get some worm medication, there are lots of over the counter stuff but it does not work as well and they will come back.
It is definitely tape worm. A fecal test at the vet will not detect tape worm, so if you want verification, you will have to actually bring in the “worm”. The reason some people believe that they go away is because they are not actually individual worms, but segments that drop off when a tape worm reaches a certain length. They are somewhat sporadic. Regular wormer will not kill them, but you can get on Ebay and search “D-Worm Tape worm”. It is pretty cheap if you get it on there and follow the dosage requirements and contains the EXACT same ingredient as the stuff the vet will give you, but will save you around $50. They will NOT go away on their own, and are caused by fleas. When your dog bites a flea it contracts (can anyway) tapeworm. So the best prevention is to make sure your dog doesn’t have fleas after you treat it for tapeworm – one of the best flea preventions is to give it a brewer’s yeast tablet in it’s food everyday. Another sign of tapeworm is weight loss and/or itchy skin flaky skin (although these characteristics are not always present). The only other possibility is that it is pin worm (they both have a rice like appearance, but tapeworm is usually a little flatter and actually points at the end like rice, where as pin worm is more round), but if you use heartworm treatment regularly, heartworm pills are designed to kill all types of worms other than tapeworm. Your best bet is to make sure that if you do a fecal test, you bring in a sample that actually contains one of the “worms”. Good luck, get your dog treated when you can, although they are not deadly, it is incredibly uncomfortable for your dog.
Those are worm eggs. Call the vet & ask for worm meds.
your vet obviously get his papers off the net, now go get a real vet.