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My puppy's poop has white strings and mucus. Are these worms?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Dog | Mixed Breed Medium (23 - 60lb) | Female | unspayed | 2 years and 5 months old | 55 lbs

Loki has 7 pups who are almost 5 weeks old. And I just found this stringy white stuff in their stool, before a couple of them had a little mucus in their poop. We took them to the vet 2 days ago, and they had a virus, and were having some upper respiratory problems. So the vet subscribed us amoxicillin for 10 days, they are having it twice a day. Is this stool normal for their condition? Does it look like worms to you?

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Answered By Andrea M. Brodie, DVM

Veterinarian

Published on March 2nd, 2018

Your puppies have roundworms. This is quite normal for puppies this age and easily treated, You will need to get some puppy wormer from either your vet or a pet shop and treat them, preferably now and again in 2-3 weeks.

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