I've been treating my 3-yr old female cat 'Missy' for tapeworms, using Holistic Blend's Natural wormer. It's used for 7 days, then 7 days off, then another 7 days on. We're currently on day 6 of the second week of dosage. So we're lmost done with the treatment.
I noticed quite a few whitish' grainy' segments being expelled last week in the '7 day off' week. More than I'd originally noticed when I'd originally realized we had a tapeworm problem, after spotting some in her bedding, and on her butt itself. For the last few days I haven't noticed any segments at her butt area or bedding, etc. at all. (I washed her bedding, etc. this past weekend, and vacuumed everywhere else that she normally sits/sleeps on, plus I've been keeping a close watch each day, so I'd know if she was still expelling those white segments).
She's well litter-box trained and has never gone outside of the litter box since I adopted her 3 years ago.
However, when I got up this am, I noticed that she'd obviously left the litterbox very quickly, while still in the process of doing a poop...ie still with a messy bottom, and some pooh still half out of her... There was poop on the floor right outside the box, as well as small amounts scatter elsewhere around my livingroom. I found what seemed to be a flattened thing covered with poo in the litterbox and another bit of this amidst some poo on the floor of the livingroom. I'm wondering if the tapeworm is expelled 'whole' when one uses this type of deworming treatment? It would account for her unease in jumping from the litterbox if she was trying to expel something like that.
Does anybody have any experience with using this type of natural dewormer? Does this experience sound like she's expelled the rest of the dead tapeworm?
By the way, she's fine today. Eating as normal, running around, etc.
Your help will be appreciated.
I noticed quite a few whitish' grainy' segments being expelled last week in the '7 day off' week. More than I'd originally noticed when I'd originally realized we had a tapeworm problem, after spotting some in her bedding, and on her butt itself. For the last few days I haven't noticed any segments at her butt area or bedding, etc. at all. (I washed her bedding, etc. this past weekend, and vacuumed everywhere else that she normally sits/sleeps on, plus I've been keeping a close watch each day, so I'd know if she was still expelling those white segments).
She's well litter-box trained and has never gone outside of the litter box since I adopted her 3 years ago.
However, when I got up this am, I noticed that she'd obviously left the litterbox very quickly, while still in the process of doing a poop...ie still with a messy bottom, and some pooh still half out of her... There was poop on the floor right outside the box, as well as small amounts scatter elsewhere around my livingroom. I found what seemed to be a flattened thing covered with poo in the litterbox and another bit of this amidst some poo on the floor of the livingroom. I'm wondering if the tapeworm is expelled 'whole' when one uses this type of deworming treatment? It would account for her unease in jumping from the litterbox if she was trying to expel something like that.
Does anybody have any experience with using this type of natural dewormer? Does this experience sound like she's expelled the rest of the dead tapeworm?
By the way, she's fine today. Eating as normal, running around, etc.
Your help will be appreciated.
