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Worms.....
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 11:36 am
by chadspad
How revolting are these little white, spagetti type things - yuk
Anyway, I regularly worm my cats but they seem to get them back again quite quickly and even have them hanging around outside of their bottoms! OK so questions, do they pass them to each other - if 1 cat eats from another cats bowl do they pass it along? What happens to the worm if it comes off the cat? Does it die and how quickly?
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 2:44 pm
by baldowrie
the worms, I believe, live in the guts of rodents. So that will be how a mouser cat will keep getting re-infested. My vet told me to worm the cats every 3 months and more often if they are hunting every day and the catch of the day is worm infested
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:19 pm
by Jandra
And if the cats use the same litter pan they can transfer a worm infection too, as far as I know.
Jandra
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:27 pm
by baldowrie
do know about that, thought they need to be ingested so unless they eat the poop...don't know
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 5:18 pm
by Jack
Gidday
It's not the worms that are transfered from one animal to another. It is the eggs which are microscopic. A can only needs to walk where another has pooped to get the eggs on their feet then later when they clean themselves they injest them.
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 6:48 pm
by chadspad
So it would seem its easily transfered then. What about when the worm leaves the cat? How long would it survive once outside the body?
Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 7:30 pm
by Annpan
My cat has thrown up worms, after being wormed the first time - we were feeling sorry for her and so she was on our bed and then she just threw up and all these wriggling worms came out on the bed
She was fine and apparently it is quite common. Anyway the worms didn't survive much longer than 5/ 10 minutes, I think that they just can't survive in the fresh air.
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:10 am
by Millymollymandy
Gross!
Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 6:55 pm
by the.fee.fairy
Are they pretty much like human threadworms?
Are all the cats wormed at the same time? (And any other animals living with them?)
Maybe try grabbing the poo and emptying the litter tray as soon as they've gone (i appreciate this is a lot more difficult than it sounds!!) to stop the others walking on it?
Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 9:38 am
by Jack
Gidday
The worms won't last long but the microscopic eggs will last for ages.
They can be wind blown too so can get anywhere, even into you.
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 11:15 am
by hedgewizard
Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 11:24 am
by chadspad
How revolting! Thanks for the tips everyone
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:03 am
by Peggy Sue
Not sure if you can get these for cats but there are herbal wormers for horses that are supposed to have a lasting effect. An ex-vet once told me to beware worming my dog too much as there are often kidney problems so best to do it half as much as vets say. Not sure if thats the same with cats???
