Awww poor Sim boy, I can just picture his hang-dog look at the vet's. Tash is the same way, she looks like she's being led off to her death. Surprisingly Tommy does pretty good. Glad to hear the rest of Simba's checkup went well .

Tapeworms are really gross, we used to have problems with the collies getting them from fleas when I lived in Missouri, but they seem pretty easy to get rid of with dewormer.

Annette, dogs can also get tapeworms by ingesting another animal that has them (rodents and rabbits commonly have them), or even by ingesting a carrier's feces . Feral/roaming cats are big carriers of both fleas and tapeworms, and we all know how much dogs like cat leavings. Parasites are one of the few creatures in the animal kingdom that actually truly disgust and repulse me