[melissa92]

My cat is a lil over a year old, not sure because I found her.She has had worms like 2 or 3 times that I know of. I worm her as soon as I notice one. I only see them on her butt, none in the litter. She is pretty skinny, but eats good. They are tiny tiny little skinny white worms. I am just using the worming medication from Walmart. Will she be alright? I changed the litter and wormed the other cat also.

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[CatsRU]

You should take your cats to the vets and get proper worm medication. The worms could be tapeworm which is hard to kill. Even if you use Revolution, the spot on flea and worm treatment, it does not kill tapeworms. I find that the supermarket worming treatments are not very good.

[Kittykisses]

I agree with Rosanne.. Supermarket wormer's can be pretty crappy, I learnt the hard way, one of my cats had a terrible case of worms and I couldn't get rid of them with supermarket wormer's.. Definitely better to make a trip to your vet to get some good quality ones.

Hope you can get it under control shortly..

[blueblue]

You can just walk in and talk to the vet nurse and they should have worming tablets on the shelf, no appointment needed or you can buy vet quality worming tablets on line (some will target multiple kinds of worms if you're not sure what kind they are).
Best luck, hoping the worming problem is solved soon for your kitty!

[burmeselover]

I agree with everyone else - supermarket wormers are not as good as the ones available at vet clinics. The supermarket wormers contain older medications that worms have build up resistance to meaning that they don't work as well.

Here are some key points to understand with worms:
* There are lots of worms that cats can get and some types are specific to a certain location. Not all "wormers" kill all worms. Speak to your vet about what worms are a problem in your area and treat with a wormer that will kill all the relevant worms.
* Worming tablets only kill adult worms. They do not kill worm eggs or larvae. This means that your cats can pick up worm eggs from the soil, from dirt brought in on your shoes, from raw offal that they eat and from eating mice/birds that they catch and these will continue to develop into adult worms in their gastrointestinal tract. Worm larvae that are in your cat's intestines will not be killed by worming tablets, so they will still continue to develop into adult worms. This is why worming must be done regularly and consistently to keep worms under control.
* You need to combine flea prevention and worm control because the flea tapeworm shares its life cycle with the flea. If a cat has fleas, it can become reinfected with tapeworm by ingesting fleas as it grooms.
* How often you worm will depend upon the previous worming history. If your cat has not been wormed regularly before or you do not know, you would be best to worm her at least twice in a row, one month apart. Then, worm her every 3 months for the rest of her life. Use a wormer recommended by your veterinarian.

[Phyl.]

Such helpful info. I would have bought Supermarket Wormers but now I know will buy (if I can ) paste at the Vets. or otherwise tablets but wonder if paste is available for cats even after they are past the kitten stage.
Phyl.

[scrappinmom19]

The tiny white worms sound like tapeworms. (according to my vet) Mine had them 4 years ago, and the Walmart stuff doesn't work. Two treatments of pills from the vet did! Mine got them when I brought some boxes in from storage, and a feral cat had gotten into the storage building. The boxes were infested with fleas, had to go to the vet to get the extra strong flea stuff too. Tapeworms are spread by fleas, so it may not be a bad idea to check for fleas also. Google fleas, and tapeworms, I don't have enough posts to put in a link, and that may give you more of an idea of how the two are linked. Good luck

[Lulu22]

Sounds like tapeworm to me but I would have to see the worm. Tapeworms are the most visibly detectable intestinal parasites and are most commonly found in the anal region of the animal and some times in the stool as rice shaped worms. When they are coming out of the rectum of the animal, that means that the infestation is rather bad because they don't start coming out until there is really no more room for them inside. The reason your pet is so thin is because the worms just sit in the GI tract and eat up all the food your pet eats so the worms are getting all the nutrition and not your pet. Animals get these worms from ingesting fleas, or another animal that already has the worms such as a small rodent. The best way to take care of the problem is to get dewormer from the vet. They can also run fecal tests and blood test to check for all other kinds of intestinal non intestinal parasites. Good luck to you and let us know how it goes!

This post has been edited by Lulu22: 16 July 2007 - 03:59 PM