Hi all, need your comments.
I captured a feral cat 46 days ago. I believe it's been in the wild for at least two to three years. Day two I brought a stool sample to the vet to check for worms. Everything checked negative. I was happy to hear this.
Today, my feral cat's 46th day with me, I discovered a dead "round worm" in his very soft stool. I brought the round worm and the stool sample to the vet to have it checked out and get some medicine. I waited at the vets office for the results. Yes it was a round worm and they found eggs also. They gave me "Panacur powder" and instructed me to give one packet for three consecutive days and have the cat tested again in three weeks.
This got me to wonder what I would find in the other fecal I collected earlier this week. I usually double bag the litter for one week and then it goes out in the garbage every Monday. So I put on my dust mask as I usually do and started digging in three days of cat doo.
Well low and behold I found what looks like a dead "tape worm". White in color about 4" long 3/16" wide. The two dead worms I found today were in very soft stool samples. There were nothing in the regular firm stool samples if that means anything.
So what gives with the fecal test? Can I trust the results? I know it's one sample per test, but shouldn't there be eggs of the round worm which they found and the tape worm that they didn't say a thing about? Can I really believe in the results of these tests? Please comment.
I captured a feral cat 46 days ago. I believe it's been in the wild for at least two to three years. Day two I brought a stool sample to the vet to check for worms. Everything checked negative. I was happy to hear this.
Today, my feral cat's 46th day with me, I discovered a dead "round worm" in his very soft stool. I brought the round worm and the stool sample to the vet to have it checked out and get some medicine. I waited at the vets office for the results. Yes it was a round worm and they found eggs also. They gave me "Panacur powder" and instructed me to give one packet for three consecutive days and have the cat tested again in three weeks.
This got me to wonder what I would find in the other fecal I collected earlier this week. I usually double bag the litter for one week and then it goes out in the garbage every Monday. So I put on my dust mask as I usually do and started digging in three days of cat doo.
Well low and behold I found what looks like a dead "tape worm". White in color about 4" long 3/16" wide. The two dead worms I found today were in very soft stool samples. There were nothing in the regular firm stool samples if that means anything.
So what gives with the fecal test? Can I trust the results? I know it's one sample per test, but shouldn't there be eggs of the round worm which they found and the tape worm that they didn't say a thing about? Can I really believe in the results of these tests? Please comment.