www.poochtips.com There are so many different symptoms of dog worms , that can appear when a dog has worms that anything you notice outside of the ordinary behavior of your pet should be addressed by a visit to your vet as a worm infested dog can become a very unhealthy, unhappy dog very fast.

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Question by karosyrup: What are the symptoms that a dog has a tape worm?
Her appetite has changed recently. For a few days, she had a much smaller appetite, and now she has a bigger appetite again. And I have been noticing some rice like stuff in her poop. And how hard is it to treat if she does have a tape worm?

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Answer by pomegranatepants
The rice things in the poop is probably tapeworms. I bet if you look REALLY close, they move slightly. Classic symptom of tape worms. It’s easy to treat, just a visit to the vet, or if you already have a vet and your pet is otherwise healthy, you can just take a sample of the poop for them to examine. If they’re big enough that you can see them in the feces, they won’t need to do a fecal exam, they’ll just prescribe a pill for about and then do another in a few weeks. You’ll then have to have the dog tested to make sure they’re completely gone.

Your dog probably also has at least a mild case of fleas. Dogs get tapeworms when they eat a flea that is infected. No joke. You’ll need to get your dog on advantage of frontline also to prevent him from getting the worms again.

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