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The Wonderful World of Worms
Thank god for the internet. My two favorite cat health web pages have the answer: Dipylidium caninum. http://www.fabcats.org/ http://www.vet.cornell.edu/consultan...t.asp?Fun=Home guynoir wrote: At first I thought it was a sesame seed and tossed it into the sink. Then I thought, "I better take a look at that" and picked it up. It started energetically crawling around on my finger. http://home.teleport.com/~guynoir/we...stock/worm.JPG Some kind of pseudopod propels it from its back end, and some kind of proboscis extends from the front. Anyone know what it is and how contagious it might be? Thanks, John Kimmel |
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On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 22:31:28 GMT, guynoir
wrote: The Wonderful World of Worms Thank god for the internet. My two favorite cat health web pages have the answer: Dipylidium caninum. Is that your "major"? MLB http://www.fabcats.org/ http://www.vet.cornell.edu/consultan...t.asp?Fun=Home guynoir wrote: At first I thought it was a sesame seed and tossed it into the sink. Then I thought, "I better take a look at that" and picked it up. It started energetically crawling around on my finger. http://home.teleport.com/~guynoir/we...stock/worm.JPG Some kind of pseudopod propels it from its back end, and some kind of proboscis extends from the front. Anyone know what it is and how contagious it might be? Thanks, John Kimmel |
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On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 22:31:28 GMT, guynoir
wrote: The Wonderful World of Worms Thank god for the internet. My two favorite cat health web pages have the answer: Dipylidium caninum. Is that your "major"? MLB http://www.fabcats.org/ http://www.vet.cornell.edu/consultan...t.asp?Fun=Home guynoir wrote: At first I thought it was a sesame seed and tossed it into the sink. Then I thought, "I better take a look at that" and picked it up. It started energetically crawling around on my finger. http://home.teleport.com/~guynoir/we...stock/worm.JPG Some kind of pseudopod propels it from its back end, and some kind of proboscis extends from the front. Anyone know what it is and how contagious it might be? Thanks, John Kimmel |
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LOL!!!
Cat Protector wrote: Sounds like you've been watching too much of the Matrix. |
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LOL!!!
Cat Protector wrote: Sounds like you've been watching too much of the Matrix. |
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On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 22:31:28 GMT, guynoir
wrote: The Wonderful World of Worms Thank god for the internet. My two favorite cat health web pages have the answer: Dipylidium caninum. http://www.fabcats.org/ http://www.vet.cornell.edu/consultan...t.asp?Fun=Home guynoir wrote: At first I thought it was a sesame seed and tossed it into the sink. Then I thought, "I better take a look at that" and picked it up. It started energetically crawling around on my finger. http://home.teleport.com/~guynoir/we...stock/worm.JPG Some kind of pseudopod propels it from its back end, and some kind of proboscis extends from the front. Anyone know what it is and how contagious it might be? Thanks, John Kimmel If your smart enough to know those names, you should be smart enough to know he need to see the Vet! |
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On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 22:31:28 GMT, guynoir
wrote: The Wonderful World of Worms Thank god for the internet. My two favorite cat health web pages have the answer: Dipylidium caninum. http://www.fabcats.org/ http://www.vet.cornell.edu/consultan...t.asp?Fun=Home guynoir wrote: At first I thought it was a sesame seed and tossed it into the sink. Then I thought, "I better take a look at that" and picked it up. It started energetically crawling around on my finger. http://home.teleport.com/~guynoir/we...stock/worm.JPG Some kind of pseudopod propels it from its back end, and some kind of proboscis extends from the front. Anyone know what it is and how contagious it might be? Thanks, John Kimmel If your smart enough to know those names, you should be smart enough to know he need to see the Vet! |
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"guynoir" wrote in message ink.net... Anyone know what it is and how contagious it might be? Thanks, John Kimmel It's very contagious. As a matter of fact, you might want to get out a mirror and check your own a-hole. You probably have a few crawling out right now. If you're going to troll, it would be much better if you at least change your name. sheesh! rona |
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"guynoir" wrote in message ink.net... Anyone know what it is and how contagious it might be? Thanks, John Kimmel It's very contagious. As a matter of fact, you might want to get out a mirror and check your own a-hole. You probably have a few crawling out right now. If you're going to troll, it would be much better if you at least change your name. sheesh! rona |
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You should take your own advice, Rona Yuthasastrakosol.
Although deliberately false, and maliciously given, your response was no more worthless than any of the well intentioned responses to my original post. I normally wouldn't bother responding to such a trollish post, but I wanted to correct the disinformation you've published worldwide. And speaking of parasites, the correct answers a Yes, it's a tapeworm, or specifically, the gravid proglottids from a Dipylidium Caninum tapeworm. I found the answer here, within about half an hour after my original post: http://www.fabcats.org/ http://www.vet.cornell.edu/consultan...t.asp?Fun=Home Neither web reference is very non-vet friendly, so it was difficult to determine the seriousness of the condition, and the risk of contagion, but I inferred that both were low. After about a day, the responses to my original post we "Take it to the vet." "Take it to the vet asap." "Take it to the vet immediately, you lousy cat hating animal abusing troll." And: "It's a tapeworm." (Maybe I read a little too much into some of the responses). On another thread, the one about the kitten's "changing lower lip", I found a link to yet another veterenary diagonistic site: http://www.marvistavet.com/ Which led me to this page all about common tapeworms: http://www.marvistavet.com/html/tapeworm.html This page has a diagram showing exactly what I saw around my cat's butt, and explicitly described in a followup post. Both my post and the web page mention that the best time to witness worms crawling out of the cat's (or dog's) asshole is while it's taking a nap. The web page also informed me that the condition is not life threatening, or even health threatening for the cat. Nor is it directly contagious, since the only way to get a tapeworm is if you eat a flea containg a tapeworm larva. I still checked my own asshole pretty thoroughly, though. I had a whole weekend to research tapeworms, and on Monday I learned that the tapeworm medicine is readily available over the counter, so I didn't even need to take the cat to a vet. Since there was no urgency to treat the condition, I gave the cats a flea treatment to reduce the likelihood of re-infection. I waited a few days, then administered the tapeworm pills. As of Friday, no more proglottids. Finally, the "marvistavet" web page recommends treating only the pets with obvious infestation, and then re-treating only when infestation has obviously returned. As Rona Yuthasastrakosol figured out, my original post was, for practical purposes, trolling. I never expected any worthwhile responses. I didn't get any worthwhile responses. But I did post followup reports with more information as I learned it, accurate to the best of my knowledge. There are a very few people regularly posting to this newsgroup who: A. Answer the question. B. Supplement the answer with personal experience and, C. Substantiate the answer with references. Answers and advice are worthless without B and/or C. The generic answer "Take the cat to the vet" is universally worthless. I've learned a lot about cat health and behavior from this newsgroup. There's a lot of garbage to sort through, idiots who post deliberatly misleading information, for example, but computers are good at sorting garbage and filtering idiots. I try to post useful information and have fun while I'm doing it. I hope that cat-owners around the world are even now lifting their napping cats' tails and checking them for worms because of what I've posted here and previously. And if they find worms, they need not panic and rush the animal to an emergency clinic. Rona Yuthasastrakosol wrote: It's very contagious. As a matter of fact, you might want to get out a mirror and check your own a-hole. You probably have a few crawling out right now. If you're going to troll, it would be much better if you at least change your name. sheesh! rona -- John Kimmel In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, "Is it good, friend?" "It is bitter -- bitter", he answered, "But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart." |
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