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Janis I don't have a life ...I'm always here!
Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 4643 Location: CUMBERNAULD
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:34 am Post subject: worming tablets! |
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i have just wormed my pups and generally it is a nightmare!
i have tried rolling them up in cold meat, baby bell cheese, regular cheese, a whole host of things including a pill dispenser from the pet shop and still had to fight to get it down the back of the throat!
this morning i raided the fridge and picked out some pate!.................
a gave them a cube on it's own and they loved it so i cut another small cube off and halved it placing the tablet between!
hooray !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
two dogs gullped down with no problem at all! _________________ Cockapoo's...a little of this, a little of that..........
the perfect combination!
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marcella Guest
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:39 am Post subject: |
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oh, mine had pate not that long ago and they went DAFT for it!!!!!!!! No wonder it was a success! |
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geri carroll I don't have a life ...I'm always here!
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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I just wrap the tablet in cold meat-no problems at all with my 2 |
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Suzanne H I don't have a life ...I'm always here!
Joined: 03 Aug 2007 Posts: 1145 Location: N. Lanarkshire
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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I'm a bit more pragmatic, I just open his gob, hold his head back and put it on the back of his tongue and hold his muzzle shut. Method adopted while he was on antibiotics and he didn't seem to mind, certainly didnt run away when the bottle was produced. |
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Emma* I don't have a life ...I'm always here!
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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I just get the treat wormers and make them sit for them!! _________________ Happiness is being loved by 2 Great Danes |
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Lindy I don't have a life ...I'm always here!
Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 3209 Location: Cumbernauld
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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Suzanne I'm with you i just shove it down their gobs and hold their muzzle shut and head up until they swallow, Lizzy is a bit dafty anyhow and eats her wormers it's just Dora who is grumpy about it but she gets a treat afterwards so she knows she is not getting into trouble it's just a necessity. |
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Ashley I don't have a life ...I'm always here!
Joined: 08 Nov 2007 Posts: 1791 Location: Cumbernauld
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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which ones do you guys use?? I think it was Dontral?? Dotral?? (something like that) that we were given by the vet! Are there many others? Can you buy them elsewhere other than going to the vets?? We need to do Holly again! I'm hoping if its wrapped in turkey ham she'll eat it!!
Edited to say: I actually think it might have been Panacur??? Think our family dog gets Dontral... or whatever it is called! _________________ Ashley with Holly & Murphy.
I hope to one day be as great as my dog thinks I am right now!! |
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Janis I don't have a life ...I'm always here!
Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 4643 Location: CUMBERNAULD
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:32 pm Post subject: |
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I JUST BUY MINE AT THE LOCAL PET SHOP! _________________ Cockapoo's...a little of this, a little of that..........
the perfect combination!
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Ashley I don't have a life ...I'm always here!
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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Janis wrote: |
I JUST BUY MINE AT THE LOCAL PET SHOP! |
Really? I hadnt even looked!!! Gotta be cheaper than the vets right enough! _________________ Ashley with Holly & Murphy.
I hope to one day be as great as my dog thinks I am right now!! |
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kirsty I don't have a life ...I'm always here!
Joined: 30 May 2007 Posts: 2712 Location: Cumbernauld
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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Probably going to get a bollocking here- I have never wormed my dogs since I have had them. I watch there poo closely and they do not have worms. Have never had worms.
I have a supply of worm tablets which I bought from the vets. But I am a believer in not treating until there is a problem
as I say I know this is not a popular view but hey ho
Actually I have never wormed any of my dogs or cats until they have an infestation.
Tootsie my cat was the last one needing treated but at the time she brought birds and mice home daily. |
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Lynn Scott Forum Regular
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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Oscar gets his annual boosters and kennel cough, and deworming tablets twice a year. I got having my animals innoculated and dewormed when we lived in South Africa; there, the animals had to have annual rabies injections as well.
As far as deworming goes - even humans took tablets! Seems quite strange to me now that I don't take them:-))
I kennel Oscar at least 3 times a year, plus taking him training to Alexandria (and now to you guys - occasionally) - all these places require everything to be up-to-date! I think I'd rather be safe than sorry - until such time as they introduce a system where they check the levels of everything!
Oscar is insured with PetPlan, but I must admit I haven't checked to see what they say about boosters etc!
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shirley c I don't have a life ...I'm always here!
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:01 pm Post subject: |
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Ours get done 6mthly, with either Drontal or Millbumax, I wouldnt miss their wormings, but I suppose having horses and they get wormed 6wkly then I am a worm freak _________________ lurchers Pixel and Zev and whippet, Fen
3 cats, Greebo, Yu and Lexx - 2 ferrets and Dales pony Jazz and adopted pony, April |
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Lorna I don't have a life ...I'm always here!
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:12 pm Post subject: |
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Mine are wormed regularly. Given their history of starvation I dare not have them deal with worms.
Maybe I am too much of a worrier. _________________ Regards,
Lorna, Basil & Poppy
Great Danes are not substitute children. They are much more important than that! |
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Janis I don't have a life ...I'm always here!
Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 4643 Location: CUMBERNAULD
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:56 pm Post subject: |
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kirsty wrote: |
Probably going to get a bollocking here- I have never wormed my dogs since I have had them. I watch there poo closely and they do not have worms. Have never had worms.
I have a supply of worm tablets which I bought from the vets. But I am a believer in not treating until there is a problem
as I say I know this is not a popular view but hey ho
Actually I have never wormed any of my dogs or cats until they have an infestation.
Tootsie my cat was the last one needing treated but at the time she brought birds and mice home daily. |
well i am at the opposite end of the stick kirsty and i could be slated as i worm my dogs on a lower dosage but every month without fail!
something i have always done since they were puppies! _________________ Cockapoo's...a little of this, a little of that..........
the perfect combination!
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Lindy I don't have a life ...I'm always here!
Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 3209 Location: Cumbernauld
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Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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I worm mine every 3 or 4 months and I always will all dogs have worms liying dorman in their organs and worming kills any newly hatched eggs and stops any from being passed on through feces and vomit. It is especially important to worm pregnant bitches, lactaiting bitches and puppies from 4 weeks every two weeks until 12 weeks |
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