badgerpup
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Sun Jul-27-08 12:49 PM
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Things I learned from Finnegan this weekend. |
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Finnegan =12 week old kitten
Kittens can have tapeworms.
Finding out that your kitten has a tapeworm is a MAJOR squick-out... even if you're a medical person and are used to that sort of stuff (little white things around his anus...immediately recognized as tapeworm segments). SQUICK:puke:
Kittens can get worms...both tapeworms and roundworms...from their mother's milk if their mother is a hunter and eats infected critters.
Dosing a kitten for roundworms will not affect the tapeworms. You have to dose them for both.
Cats cannot give each other tapeworms, but they can get it from the same source.
I'm very fortunate that my cats are fairly cooperative (comparatively speaking) when I have to give them pills. O8) They don't try to shred me, and they usually swallow the pill on the first try.
Having to shampoo the rugs with an antiseptic soap ("...just to be on the safe side...") can really blow your weekend. :grr:
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BrklynLiberal
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Sun Jul-27-08 11:29 PM
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1. I had a Lhasa Apso many years ago that had a tapeworm. It had to be the most disgusting thing I |
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had ever seen to see it oozing out of her anus. SQUICK is right!!!!!
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