Dog Community

Posted : 4/25/2007 6:57:03 AM

I do not worry about potential exposure to parasites. They are dogs, they eat meat, they play outside and they are predators. Heck they eat poop recreationally. If I see evidence of tapes I'll get them treated. Fear of parasites is not a reason I would stop my dogs from being dogs - that is, from chasing, catching and eating critters.

Heck I eat sushi.
Paula

janet_rose

Posted : 4/25/2007 7:04:50 AM

Fear of parasites is not a reason I would stop my dogs from being dogs - that is, from chasing, catching and eating critters.

I agree, but it might be a good reason to deworm proactively - especially if you have small children.

paulaedwina

Posted : 4/25/2007 9:18:11 AM

When I had an outside cat - she spent most of her time in the woods - I did worm proactively because she was out there hunting and eating critters. I talked to the vet about it and she got wormed twice a year. I could only speculate that I would worm proactively if I had kids because I don' t have kids. I don't worm the dogs proactively - heartguard has some efficacy against a couple of worm types, and I do anual fecals. Interestingly enough they've thus far always come back negative.

Paula

espencer

Posted : 4/25/2007 10:08:14 AM

ORIGINAL: Ixas_girl

And, remember, we humans carry that stuff with us; Kobi's long forgotten it by now!

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I was wrong-dog got punished!