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Rescue Pup health Concerns?
What if anything would a perspective owner need to be concerned about
this. 5 month old Lakeland terrier pups that were rescued from puppy mill. These have AKC papers. When rescued they had all kinds of worms, ticks, fleas, no heartworms. Are being treated by vet and are close to fully healthy. They lived outside before rescue and are being socialized by rescue folks. Rescue is asking new owners to just pay for vet bills, $700-800. Are there any future ramifications of various worms? What questions should I ask? Any help appreciated.Rescure pup Health concern? |
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Rescue Pup health Concerns?
"Jerry" wrote in message ... What if anything would a perspective owner need to be concerned about this. 5 month old Lakeland terrier pups that were rescued from puppy mill. These have AKC papers. When rescued they had all kinds of worms, ticks, fleas, no heartworms. Are there any future ramifications of various worms? ? .......Nothing definite. Tincture of time is all that's needed. If a dog is starving to death and to the point where the body systems are broken, then there can be lifelong problems. buglady take out the dog before replying |
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Rescue Pup health Concerns?
Are there any future ramifications of various worms? What questions
should I ask? Any help appreciated.Rescure pup Health concern? Depends on what kind of parasites. The dogs can be monitored for this periodically over the next year to make sure all stages of the parasites have been killed. But, just because they've been wormed doesn't mean that that worming took care of the immature stages. It's only when the mature stages are in the intestines that the meds kill them. Strategic deworming every 3 months should do the trick. Monthly if they are puppies until 12 weeks of age. -Sharon |
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Rescue Pup health Concerns?
On Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:31:30 GMT, Jerry wrote:
What if anything would a perspective owner need to be concerned about this. 5 month old Lakeland terrier pups that were rescued from puppy mill. These have AKC papers. When rescued they had all kinds of worms, ticks, fleas, no heartworms. Are being treated by vet and are close to fully healthy. They lived outside before rescue and are being socialized by rescue folks. Rescue is asking new owners to just pay for vet bills, $700-800. Are there any future ramifications of various worms? Other than heartworm, none to my knowledge. What questions should I ask? Any help appreciated.Rescure pup Health concern? You might consider "Can I have my vet examine this dog before committing to adoption?". I've always heard that puppy-mill dogs *can* exhibit behavioral problems found to a much lesser degree in non-inbred dogs. Perhaps you could assess degree of inbreeding (if any) with an AKC family tree diagram? Also ask lots of behavior questions of rescue folk. In any event, if you take one, I salute you! Peetie |
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Rescue Pup health Concerns?
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Jerry wrote: Are there any future ramifications of various worms? What questions should I ask? Any help appreciated.Rescure pup Health concern? I'd probably be more concerned about their socialization than worms, unless the worms had caused anemia and such. Concerns would be lack of socialization with people, and fear issues. -- Janet Boss www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com |
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Rescue Pup health Concerns?
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"Suja" wrote: Also, potty training issues. A lot of pups that I know that learned that it was okay to sleep in their own filth turned out to be really difficult to toilet train. Very true. I wasn't sure exactly what "outdoors" may have meant. A big enough area, and the pups may have actually figured out the don't-poop-where-you-sleep issue. -- Janet Boss www.bestfriendsdogobedience.com |
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Rescue Pup health Concerns?
"Janet Boss" wrote in message: Concerns would be lack of socialization with people, and fear issues. Also, potty training issues. A lot of pups that I know that learned that it was okay to sleep in their own filth turned out to be really difficult to toilet train. Suja |
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