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Looks like Sissy has Roundworm

post #1 of 6
1/9/10 at 1:22pm
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She's got a rounded belly and still has a crazy appetite, and I just saw what looked like a long piece of spaghetti hanging out of her butt.

I did some research and it seems the best fit is roundworm. I don't see her every day so I'm worried about a 10-day course of meds, hoping there is something else I can give her that will do the trick.

Expecting to have to give her doses for several months - it's freezing outside and certainly not flea season, so that means even though she was dewormed twice several weeks apart back in Sept/Oct, she obviously was already infected with them and is still cycling through.

No wonder she was so skinny and so starved when she adopted me!

Baby Bonnie has to go to the vet on Saturday next weekend to get her 3 year rabies shot, so I'm hoping to catch Sissy and bring her in as well, otherwise I'm going to have to ask them to give me something to take home for her.

So yucky - poor Sissy!
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post #2 of 6
1/9/10 at 1:50pm
Profender is a spot on wormer for hook, round and tapeworms. Excellent for cats who are hard to pill.
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post #3 of 6
1/9/10 at 2:27pm
Revolution, too. You'll get her fixed up, I haven't the least doubt of it!
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post #4 of 6
1/9/10 at 2:36pm
Fleas don't carry roundworms, only tapes. She's outside so you're just going to have to regularly keep her dewormed (or use something like Revolution). The reason for this is because if she catches anything and eats it, she can get roundworm from it. If she walks on the ground where an infested animal has pooped, she'll pick up eggs on her feet. If she's hanging around the same areas she's pooped when infested, she'll pick them back up again.

As long as she's outside it's just something you'll have to deal with.
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post #5 of 6
1/10/10 at 6:48am
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Originally Posted by strange_wings View Post
Fleas don't carry roundworms, only tapes. She's outside so you're just going to have to regularly keep her dewormed (or use something like Revolution). The reason for this is because if she catches anything and eats it, she can get roundworm from it. If she walks on the ground where an infested animal has pooped, she'll pick up eggs on her feet. If she's hanging around the same areas she's pooped when infested, she'll pick them back up again.

As long as she's outside it's just something you'll have to deal with.
She absolutely refuses to become an indoor cat, and she has no clue what a litterbox is for, so it looks like regular monthly treatments will be called for. Unfortunately, I'm not working and unemployment ran out months ago, so I'm a bit concerned about being able to afford monthly meds for her.

I'll figure something out, though. She's just TOO sweet not to be taken care of, and I promised her I'd see to her one way or the other. Need to just keep my fingers crossed that she doesn't develop an intestinal blockage or pneumonia in the meantime.

She's definitely a hunter - I took feathers out of her mouth the other day and I know she's brought a freshly killed cardinal home here in the past, so I'm sure that she's also killing and eating field mice, etc. That's probably what she was surviving on before she planted herself in my yard and demanded that I become her human.

I'll be calling the vet this week - finally found a really good one that thinks the way I do about cat care, so hopefully they'll be able to help me out somehow, since she's technically a stray.
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post #6 of 6
1/10/10 at 10:07am
Some of the meds are cheaper online - just talk to your vet openly about the situation. But with outdoor kitties it's easiest to just use the monthly topical on them. I don't know Profender, but Revolution also treats fleas and ticks in addition to the internal parasites.
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