My question is when would I start using it orally for the dogs. Tomorrow will be their final day of the vet prescribed poison. I have read that I may be able to sprinkle it in my yard or use it daily as a prevenative so my dogs don't reinfect with whipworms. I tried to find the Health forum, but must be having a brain fart cuz I couldn't see it.
Forgive me if you already know this, but there are several types of DE available but not all are safe for consumption! MAKE SURE you are using FOOD GRADE DE if you are going be using it in their food.
I am not familiar with the use with dogs, so I'll let someone with more experience speak to this point. However, it is commonly used with chickens - both in their food and in the coops to prevent insect infestations. There are several types of DE in use, and some, if ingested, are lethal. (One type is used in swimming pool filsters and should never be used around animals). There is a type used safely as an insecticide, but which should never be added to food. There is also a type which is safe to consume and which will help control intestinal parasites - the one which I'm assuming would be used in this case.
Personally on the food grade stuff I feed it for two weeks every other day, 2 times a year. It's pretty rare for us to have parasite issues though. My dogs in the past 4 years have never floated positive for worms.
However for the bugs in the yard (ants are the enemy) I use it as needed spread across boundaries.
http://leerburg.com/56.htm It is sold on the site and seems to be a natural wormer. It has fossils that break up the worms and are harmless to mammals. Bolt has become ill from the panacur and is vomitting and has diahhrea. He must have one he!! of a bellyache as he keeps whining and laying down. I'm taking him to the vet at 8am when they open. I'm thinking of stopping the Panacur as I believe it has literally poisoned him. My neighbor was spraying for weeds yesterday and Bolt was barking at him. He goes"I sprayed him and he stopped." I'm thinking "WTF" You sprayed him? So I smelled him and felt all over to see if he was wet anywhere. He wasn't. ( I have a keen sense of smell in case your wondering why I would smell him) So I assumed he sprayed at him. I'm thinking maybe the combo of both is hurting him.
I just ambushed my neighbor as he was coming out of his house to go to work. He used "Round up", supposedly "safe" for pets. But I'm thinking it's not so "safe" when your already poisoning them with Panacur. Also my husband sprayed weeds with "Round up" after I asked him not to as Gabby is a grazer. At the time I had two dogs and the big one got diahhrea and he vomitted. Now I try to spray the weeds with vinegar. I'm getting worried because Bolt is now rolling over and whining.
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