Can you over-worm a dog?
Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:14 am
I ask this question because i have a rescued Chihuahua cross (no idea what the other half is...).
I live in China, which is not the most sanitary place. The chinese have only started keeping dogs as pets recently (please...no eating stereotypes. That's only in certain provinces). So...i worm my dog every 6 months unless she's been staying somewhere else (when i go away she has to go and stay with people who love her!!). If she's stayed somewhere else, i will worm her when i get back, 3 months after and then 3 months after that, depending on how long she stayed elsewhere.
For example: I go back to the UK for 2 months in the summer, so she goes to stay with my friend's family. They are really nice people, and they adore her as much as she adores them. The look after her well, feed her with the food i leave (i told them that she can't eat human food) and take her out for walks and stuff. However...one of their neighbours, and one of the extended family also have dogs. They are not fed dog food, and not looked after as we would look after a dog. So i'm worried that they may pass on worms to my little furball.
Is this safe? Or am I sending her to an early grave? I've got European worming treatments - Lopatol (500mg nitroscante). she gets 1 tablet every worming time.
She's perfectly healthy. I've had dogs all my life, so i know what to look for if she's sick.
She's nearly 3 and is not spayed yet (I havent found a vet without cockroaches running around yet, and i'm not allowing her to have surgery in a dirty place). She's had all her innoculations.
Eventually (probably this time next year) I'll be getting a pet passport for her to travel with me to the UK, so i need to make sure that everything is up to date. She doesn't have a microchip yet (can't find somewhere with a reader...she has a chip, it's just not been implanted).
Any advice regarding worming/pet passport is good! Thanks
I live in China, which is not the most sanitary place. The chinese have only started keeping dogs as pets recently (please...no eating stereotypes. That's only in certain provinces). So...i worm my dog every 6 months unless she's been staying somewhere else (when i go away she has to go and stay with people who love her!!). If she's stayed somewhere else, i will worm her when i get back, 3 months after and then 3 months after that, depending on how long she stayed elsewhere.
For example: I go back to the UK for 2 months in the summer, so she goes to stay with my friend's family. They are really nice people, and they adore her as much as she adores them. The look after her well, feed her with the food i leave (i told them that she can't eat human food) and take her out for walks and stuff. However...one of their neighbours, and one of the extended family also have dogs. They are not fed dog food, and not looked after as we would look after a dog. So i'm worried that they may pass on worms to my little furball.
Is this safe? Or am I sending her to an early grave? I've got European worming treatments - Lopatol (500mg nitroscante). she gets 1 tablet every worming time.
She's perfectly healthy. I've had dogs all my life, so i know what to look for if she's sick.
She's nearly 3 and is not spayed yet (I havent found a vet without cockroaches running around yet, and i'm not allowing her to have surgery in a dirty place). She's had all her innoculations.
Eventually (probably this time next year) I'll be getting a pet passport for her to travel with me to the UK, so i need to make sure that everything is up to date. She doesn't have a microchip yet (can't find somewhere with a reader...she has a chip, it's just not been implanted).
Any advice regarding worming/pet passport is good! Thanks