Dog Worms – How to Spot Symptoms and the Little Known Secret to Healthy Removal
Posted on 05. Nov, 2017 by admin in Canine Health
Dog Worms – How to Spot Symptoms and the Little Known Secret to Healthy Removal
Learning how to spot the symptoms of dog worms is a common health concern for a large majority of pet owners. In their quest for knowledge, what they most commonly learn is that there are five different types of internal parasites dogs can become infected with: heartworm, hookworm, roundworm, tapeworm and whipworm.
Pet owners also likely learn that how a dog becomes infected can depend on the parasite. For example, hookworms can be passed to puppies from an infected mother while in utero. Whipworm and roundworm infections come from ingesting eggs left behind in soil or feces. Tapeworms come from ingesting infected fleas and heartworms are transmitted by mosquitoes.
Though there are five different types, common symptoms of dog worms are:
Diarrhea
Vomiting
Loss of appetite, weight or energy
Lackluster coat
Bloating
Coughing
It’s what pet owners don’t learn that costs them the most. Today’s veterinary medicine insists each type of parasite requires a different course of treatment. Therefore, it’s unsurprising to find that pet owners spend millions each year not only paying to have their dogs tested for worms but treated as well. What’s adds to this burden is that symptoms of dog worms often reappear which means a course of medication must be repeated all over again. This can be quite frustrating for budget minded pet owners who only want to see their favourite canine companion well again.
Pet owners are never told the reality: the issue of dogs and worms has been around for millions of years. However, since there were no veterinarians and medications around at the time, Mother Nature was good enough to give the canine species a particular physiology and diet that created a good strong immunity to effectively deal with internal parasites. The canine physiology still depends on this diet.
Yet, in the last 60 years, dogs have largely been switched to eating from cans and bags instead of being provided a natural diet of raw meat and bone. It is being forced to subsist from a food source created from dead, dying, diseased and disabled animals rendered down with a laundry list of chemicals and additives that has cost dogs their ability to withstand the effects of even basic illnesses let alone parasitic infestations.
Leading dog-health author, Ann N. Martin had this to say: “The pet food industry claims that its products constitute a “complete and balanced diet” but, in reality, commercial pet food is unfit for human or animal consumption.”
A dog that is provided a diet of raw meat and bone rarely exhibits symptoms of dog worms. Rather than the chemicals, additives, preservatives and other toxins that embattle and distress a dog’s immune system, a raw meat diet is full of the perfect balance of live enzymes, proteins, vitamins and minerals that fine tune its physiology. It is raw meat and bone that works as both food and medicine, making diarrhea, vomiting, weight loss and expensive trips to the vet a thing of the past.
Dan Scott author of “Real Food for Dogs” has lived, trained, studied, worked and very much loved dogs for over 43 years. His burning passion for Canine Nutrition – “what your dog eats” through research and practice of natural diets for dogs is helping people the world over to have a healthy dog for life.
