I know that if you leave dog poop in the yard you will soon see maggots on it.
I was outside in the yard and saw Turbo have a soft serve bowel movement. When I got done with what I was doing about a minute or 2 later I went to inspect. Because we all know you're SUPPOSED to dig around in it, right? There were tiny little white or clear worms. I'm talking tiny. If you didn't really look you could have missed them easily. The best way to describe them would be like super small maggots. They were whitish, clearish with a small black dot on the tip. I did see one inside the poop, but could have pushed it in from the outside.
Can maggots or other worm like bugs get on there that fast?
Regardless, I'm going to take Turbo and a sample to the vet tomorrow morning. Just curious if anyone had seen this before.
Sounds to me like Turbo might have worms, I've never seen worms in fecal matter before, but the way you descibed them... I could be wrong. Good idea to take dog and stool sample to vet's office. Let us know how it goes.
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... Can maggots or other worm like bugs get on there that fast?
No. Maggots emerge from eggs 8 to 20 hours after the eggs are laid.
You're sure these were moving? They sound more like the eggs of a parasite like hookworm, tapeworm, etc. --- even giardia eggs(?), although I'm not clear on what size they are. Are they visible? (The magnified pictures didn't have a reference object.)
Unless you mean they were more like rice-grain size, in which case they could be tapeworm segments, from what I've read and pictures I've seen.
You're smart, taking it to the vet as soon as you can. I would take a fresh sample, if possible.
They were probably about as big as the apostrophe on your computer screen. (') They were definately moving.
He had 2 bowel movements about 50' apart and they were on both. These things couldn't move very fast. If they were on the ground where it fell they may have been able to get on it before I got over there. Even then I still can't picture them being able to get on there that fast.
I'll post back with results. Hopefully it was just bugs that were already there that I haven't seen before.
He couldn't find anything. I couldn't see anything in the sample and I picked it up as soon as it hit the ground. Which kinda makes me think it was just a bug in the yard. He wondered if it was very young tapeworm segments. I'm just going to continue to look and see if it shows up again.
He gave me the option of Droncit. I didn't get it cause I wasn't sure of it and didn't want to run something through him without evidence that these came out of him. I read about it when I got home and from what I found it sounds fairly safe.
Would ya'll wait to try to see it again, or go ahead and give the Droncit? It was only like $5.
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Oh, very young tapeworm segments... good thought.
An adult segment is the size of a grain of rice and is able to move. Eventually the segment dries and looks more like a sesame seed. The sac (segment) breaks and tapeworm eggs are released.
I didn't think of immature segments, and in fact didn't know that they too would do what mature ones do.
Here's the deal, though: Different wormers treat different worms. I think I would wait (not very long, though) until I had a new sample with the critters, and take that in. Then when I had an ID, I'd treat.
I guess I would just call the vet and ask if that's an OK plan. He might say that given the relative safety of Droncit, you might as well dose him. But I guess I feel that I don't want to give even a pretty innocuous med if it's the wrong med.
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