Worms!!

**critter crazy** · 05-10-2007, 06:38 AM

Accckkk....Mocha has what looks like tapeworm! I ahve to take a sample to the vet for verification, But I am pretty sure!

Last night I was cleaning out the Cat littler box, I emptied the litter, and was diposing of it, when Mocha comes in, and decides to do her business before I even replace the litter!

After she is done, i go in to clean the box, and there are these tiny little moving worms all over her poo!! Poor Baby!! I feel so bad that i never noticed!

**smokey the elder** · 05-10-2007, 09:50 AM

They can give her a Droncit or Drontal pill or shot at the vet. (One is for tapes, the other is more broad spectrum.) They get tapes from flea bites, which are hard to avoid when it gets warm. It's not your fault!

**catmandu** · 05-10-2007, 09:54 AM

The good thing is that you actually saw the worms and you know that Mocha needs medicines.
Thats a lot better than finding worms and not knowing where they came from.
We are sending prayers for Sweet Mocha.

**kittycats_delight** · 05-10-2007, 10:39 AM

I am going through the same thing with our dog. It is from the ingestion of fleas. The egg for the tapeworm is carried inside fleas. I would think the vet will suggest treating all the furries with frontline or something related and then possibly treating all as a preventative for the tapeworms. So you may have to pill all animals for 3-5 days depending on what your vet suggests. If they are small white moving segments it is tapeworm. Artica is taking panacur. Good luck with this and keep us posted.

**Lizzie** · 05-10-2007, 11:25 AM

I hate those tape worm segments than squirm around on their own. I've seen them coming out of a cat's bottom before, and it's 'orrible. Fortuntely, it's easily dealt with. You may have to move to routine flea treatments, such as Revolution, to prevent this happening again.

**krazyaboutkatz** · 05-10-2007, 11:38 AM

Sky also had tapeworm and I actually saw a piece of it wiggling out of his bottom.

He was shaved down when I adopted him so I could see this area better. He came from the Humane Society and he had fleas which they treated him for but they didn't bother to treat him for worms.

I didn't have to treat any of my other cats and I've been using advantage on all of them every month for years so I've never had a flea problem since. Good luck.