Warning: Gross Thread! Lucinda was in the bathroom doing the...

[Maddy McCall]

butt scooting boogie, and in her wake she left a little tiny half-inch morphing worm thing. Ok, I am grossing out.

I just got through sanitizing--thoroughly mopping with mint oil--the bathroom floor, but now I want to clean the whole house.

She goes outside to do her business--she is a 20-week-old minischnauz for those of you who don't know--and she may have picked them up outside.

What is grossing me out the most is that she kisses me on the face, and now I see she has a little parasitic thingy falling out of her butt!

Anyone here care to wager a guess on what that thing was?? I ran to walmart and bought dog wormer and just wormed her for several types of worms...she will see the vet tomorrow. She was wormed a couple of months ago at her last set of shots. The vet said, "I know that there isn't a worm within a mile of this dog, but I am going to go ahead and dose her." Boy will he be surprised!

So, what was that thing? Should I vacuum, mop, dust my whole house RIGHT NOW?

Gag!

[Fridays Child]

1. Probably a roundworm.

My kitty hacked one up once. Yucky, huh?

[SmileyBoy]

2. Uccchhh. Worms.

She has worms. I think the vet can take care of at least most of those. It seems like a relatively small one. My cat had worms a few years ago (they were easy to get rid of), and they were bigger than that.

[leftofthedial]

3. It was a Republican

I'm afraid she's stuck with them until 2004.

[dobak]

4. LOL!

:-)

[SmileyBoy]

6. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

LOL!!! LOL!!! LOL!!! You made my stressful night OK again!!!!!:-):-):-)

[Maddy McCall]

8. :-)

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. Pups are just susceptible to them

The shots from the vet work better than OTC dewormers but if it was white it sounds like your basic worm.

Don't freak out No need to vacuum right this minute..you're not gonna let some lil ole worm be bigger than you? Are you?

BUT EEEEEWWWWEEEEE!!!!

[Maddy McCall]

7. LOL!

I have been doing internet research, and there is discussion of worms crawling up through your skin to your lungs and all around the surface of your skin and breaking you out and....

oh jeez I want her well but I don't want worms either! LOL.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

9. I knew I shouldn't continue eating my spaghetti while reading a post about

WORMS!!!!!

[Maddy McCall]

10. Warning! Even more gross!

How about this?



If I would have kept a photo of this on my fridge, I would never have had to resort to the Atkins diet!

[Maddy McCall]

11. SERIOUSLY! Help!

I just checked on Lucinda again...she is still butt-scooting, and there are little worms all over the bathroom floor.

She was in the pet show at the fair last Tuesday. Could she have picked them up from the ground there?

What do I need to do tonight? I am taking her to the vet first thing tomorrow a.m. but what do I do now??

[MOdem]

12. Relax...

It's gross, but your dog has worms. Budda-Bing!

Pour some table salt on the leavings, sweep them into a pile and vacuum them up in the morning. Then take your dog to the vet. It may take a couple of treatments but it IS curable. Not a major thing.

'Less you let them go. Clean it up now.

Former farm boy.

[MOdem]

13. Oh yeah... about those droppings...

You want to clean them up quickly. The salt will kill the live, yuckey worms and dry out the "doo" but their eggs may be still present in the stool and any animal that "contacts" that waste may contract the infestation.

Depending on the type of parasite, that may include you.

So just use common sense and clean up the waste hygienically, you'll be fine.

...and take the dog to the vet.

[retread]

14. You might want to take a few of the worms to the vet when you

take your dog.

[Maddy McCall]

15. Well, it was TAPEWORMS!

I took a worm on a piece of tape. The vet laughed at me because I was gagging when I unsealed the envelope to hand the specimen to him. He said right off the bat, "Tapeworms."

I have given her the pill, and have disinfected the bathroom, so all should be well.

Thanks for the advice, DUers!