[Mourningdove]

We have had to use Droncit on Donner several times for tape worms. Tape worms will appear on a dog's rear end around the anus and look like grains of rice. Donner gets them because we have him on 60 acres of sagebrush on the weekends and he has been known to go out early in the morning and chase jackrabbits. He has also caught (and eaten) chipmunks, sagerats, and woodrats...try as we might to not let this happen! Molly has never had worms, but she is not that much of a hunter.

If your dog gets tape worms, you have to make sure you get the med that kills tape worms, not just round worms. But there are good over the counter worm meds that you don't have to pay a fortune for. (Farm feed stores are good places to shop for dog meds)

Dogs can eat the craziest things and you really have to watch them! Recently Donner passed about 4 paper towels that I had soaked up chicken grease with. I have gone to making sure the garbage is out of the room at night because he will nose through it in the middle of the night!

 

[Purple Poodle]

Tape worms come from ingesting fleas

I de-worm all of my dogs with Diatamatious Earth (food grade) and it kills any and all internal and external parasites. Good stuff and all natural.

You can find it at feed stores but it come in 50 pound bags.

Other then that for round worms/whip worms and the like I find that the de-wormer from Wal-Mart works very well.

 

[Mourningdove]

Tapeworms and fleas..... yes, they come from fleas. Donner has ate rabbits and woodrats loaded with them! I'm worried that he could pick up something worse than tapeworms. I try to keep an eye on him, but he comes to me at sunrise wanting to run. I let him out and off he goes. I've had to get in the golf car and go out and find him on 60 acres of farm-fenced sagebrush and juniper. I know if he's gone for more than 15 minutes or so, chances are he's found something! He only gets this routine on weekends. During the week, we are in the city. Molly is a lady and doesn't eat rabbits.