Tapeworms

[sausy.dog]

It is very possible that one dog has tapeworm and the others don't. If you are in an area where there are sheep and your dog goes scavenging on dead carcasses or eating raw offal then they are at risk of hydatids. Worm your dogs with Drontal and do so again a month later to kill tapeworm. Be absolutely fanatical about handwashing, especially if you have children around. Hydatid cysts are not a nice thing at all. A lot of dog worming treatments do not treat tapeworm so make sure you get one that does.

Here is some info you might want to read:

http://www.dpi.vic.gov.au/DPI/nreninf.nsf/...490014C0D3?open

[qashmir]

Unfortunately, it doesn't matter how much you clean, if you don't treat a flea problem initially with stuff like FRONTLINE for example and use a premium wormer like DRONTAL, then you won't get on top of the problem. Once you rid yourself of the flea problem then you can, for example, keep on top of it by using a flea rinse in your weekly bath and alternating between drontal and the next less expensive brand. Unfortunately some flea topical treatments and some wormers are not required by law to be as effective as the top of the range ones, yet they can still claim to be flea and worm killers.