WHAT OTHER WORM MIGHT INFECT YOUR DOG

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Todays Tips-What other worm might infect your dog
Tapeworms are long, flat worms attacked to the lining of the intestine with hooks and suckers, and in general they cause no signs of ill health. Hookworms inhabit the small intestine and infection can be caused by eating infected feces or by burrowing through the skin...particularly the feet. The whipworm inhabits the part of the large bowel called the caecum and usually causes no signs. Dogs become infected by the whipworm by eating infected feces. The lungworm inhabits the end of the trachea nearest to the lungs and may cause the infected animal to have a dry cough. The tracheal worm lives in the dog's windpipe and can cause coughing in an infected animal. The bladder worm is a fine hair-like worm found in the bladder, usually among packs of hounds. The hearworm infects dogs in the central and eastern parts of the United States, Australia and southern Europe. Mosquitos infect dogs with the heartworm and the damage by these worms can be severe. The giant kidney worm is the largest known nematode and dogs can become infected by eating raw or imperfectly cooked fish. The lung fluke can infect scavenger dogs that eat water snails and crayfish and causes intermittent coughing. And finally the Thelzia californiensis occasionally affects dogs and is transmitted by the deer fly. The worm lives beneath the third eyelid causing an intensely irritant conjunctivitis.