Question by Danie E: I think my dog has tapeworms but I am seeing long pieces come out in her stool. How do I know what kind of wor
How do I know what kind of worm it is? I had over the counter wormer in my house but it said it was for roundworms and hookworms. The tapeworm is described as being seen in small dried pieces. This doesn’t look like roundworm as she has had that before but there aren’t any tiny/small pieces like described in tapeworm. Only long ones. Help?

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Answer by kittenpie
Take the dog to the vet, or at least bring in a stool sample, so that they can check to see what kind of worms they are.

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Question by puff: I’m seeing conflicting information on dog worm prevenative, does it really do more harm than good?
I was going to get interceptor but i’m seeing a lot of information saying that it’s just posioning my dog every month.

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Answer by kissMyBulldog
Do you mean heart worm prevention? HeartGuard is safe to use every month. However, dogs don’t need heart worm medicine unless they are at high risk (around mosquitoes). It is an absolute if you live in the South.

If you mean worms like tape, round…your dog should only need a yearly dose of worming medicine. The meds in the store don’t work, get it from the vet.

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I was going to get interceptor but i’m seeing a lot of information saying that it’s just posioning my dog every month.

I have a 13 week old Shih Tzu puppy. We got him 9 days ago. He had his first shots on May 8 by the breeder’s vet. I just gave him his second shot last night. I bought the vaccine (Duramune Max 5 Cv-k) at a feed store. I had called our vet locally and they wanted $58 (to be seen and for the vaccine) so I thought I’d save some money and do it myself which I have done Several times with my dogs as well as my mom’s dogs. I have however, never had a small breed. I had read before hand not to give Lepto to small dogs or puppies, so I skipped that and thought this shot would be ok. Puppy has been fine up until a few hours ago when he vomited yellow liquid, no food in the vomit. He has seemed a little less energetic today, but not lethargic or anything. He is still cheerful, and playing, just a little more sleepy and not as crazy bouncy. He’s playing with a squeeky toy right now. Anyways, I freaked out thinking that maybe he is having a reaction to his vaccine. His stool is still normal, and he hasn’t vomited again. It has been a few hours since he vomited. I did start him on Pedialyte just to help him out a bit. I called our emergency vet and they wanted to see him/test him for Parvo at a cost of almost $300 so I decided to wait to see if he vomited again or got diarhea…so far so good. Does this mean that his vommiting (one time) was just a freak thing? There was nothing in his vomite (like paper or chunks of anything that would make me believe he ate something) he has been wormed (once by the breeder’s vet)….Am I just freaking out? If it was Parvo would he have gotten worse by now? He hasn’t been anywhere (not even in our backyard) because we were waiting until he got more vaccines. He is trained to go on his puppy pads….I’m just wondering if I am being to laxed about this?? I just don’t want to jump the gun and spend at least another $300 if it’s really not necessary, but I don’t know much about the onset of Parvo…