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Even just the thought of my pets having worms is enough to give me the shivers. I was visiting my mom’s house a while back and I noticed that her Siamese cat had what looked exactly like a grain of rice near its ‘rear-end.’ That should have been enough to set off the alarm in my brain, but it took me half a second later when that grain of rice moved by itself to jump up and yell, “WORMS!” “Mom, did you know ‘Little Geester’ has worms!?” Luckily, I knew exactly what to do. I Gave the cat some Tapeworm Tabs for cats, and within a few days, she was cleared of all worms. The little rice grain I saw was actually part of the tapeworm, and this is very common for pets to have tapeworms. The most common way pets get tapeworms is, by ingesting fleas that carry tapeworm eggs. Shortly after we worked on the flea infestation. Otherwise the tapeworms will come. What I saw was only a small segment of the tapeworm that broke off, Tapeworms are usually six inches or longer. Once the tapeworm eggs are in your pet, they take root, by grabbing on with their six teeth in the small intestine, each rice-sized segment has its own digestive system and reproductive system. Nasty little creatures, easy to prevent. Once we found out that Little Geester had tapeworms, we didn’t want to pet her or even keep her in the house any more (we didn’t kick her out). We even started to dwell on the fact that we had my niece and nephew (3 and 5 years old) were over, and had played with the cat a few days earlier. The moral of this story is a pill once every 3 months goes a long way to keeping the pets healthy and the family safe. |
Think I’ll Go Eat Worms! Nobody likes me, Long, thin, slimy ones, Down goes the first one, Up comes the first one, |
