Wormsi O z [Worms 



eats well but does not put on flesh, and has a 

 tucked -up appearance. The bowels are often 

 irresfular, the breath offensive, the coat dull and 

 staring, and the dog is listless. The most 

 positive symptoms of worms is when segments 

 looking like small pieces of dried rice are found 

 about the underneath parts of the tail and on the 

 dog's bed. 



Worms occasionally cause paralysis of the hind 

 legs. People often wonder how dogs get worms, 

 especially pet dogs, who seldom leave their 

 mistresses' side, but it is easily accounted for, 

 first, when it is taken into consideration how 

 susceptible they are to these parasites ; a dog, for 

 instance, fed on raw meat or uncooked milk, or 

 if he eats grass where there are sheep or rabbits, 

 or if he drinks out of a pool which drains from 

 land on which sheep are grazing, he is almost 

 certain to get tapeworm, for sheep and rabbits 

 are the intermediate host of some of the most 

 common kind. Lice, again, act as the intermediate 

 host of other sorts. I may here mention that 

 tapeworms do not breed in a dog, but the eggs or 

 larvae must pass out of him and be swallowed by 

 some other living creature, who is called the 

 intermediate host. Here they develop into cysts 

 or bladder-worms, and if these in their turn are 

 swallowed by a dog they develop into a tapeworm, 

 and so the cycle is completed. 



Treatment: It is most important that house 

 dogs should be kept free of worms, for if by 

 chance or accident a person swallows an egg 

 or larva from a tapeworm there is the danger 



