Worming: a PSA

[Kathy]

Did you know that frequent vomiting and flatulence can caused by intestinal parasites in cats?

I do now!

Having run loads of blood-and-piddle tests on Ethel-the-Elderly, and found nothing amiss with her kidneys or thyroid, and then seen the daily vomiting stop as soon as she was given a worming tablet, the vet thinks that this is the most likely suspect. Given she gets wormed every three months anyway, I have no idea how her parasite load got so high. Especially as she has no teeth, which I'd have thought limited the number of meeces she can eat!

[L CC]

She wont necessarily have got them from rodents, much more likely to get them from faecal contamination in soil or grooming. Intermediate hosts like fleas, slugs, snails...

[Riggers]

No pun intended, but I hope this thread won't elicit a host of gruesome imagery from them that like this sort of thing.

[Jaded]

<< Fires up the computer...