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My dog has a worm crawling from its butt. What kind of worm is it?

Updated On September 23rd, 2025

Pet's info: Dog | Mixed Breed | Female | unspayed | 1 year and 11 months old | 28 lbs

Does anyone know what kind of worm this may be? It was crawling out of my dogs butt yesterday

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Answered By Andrea M. Brodie, DVM

Veterinarian

Published on September 4th, 2018

This appears to be a tapeworm proglottid. You will need to do two things: 1) worm your dog with a wormer containing praziquantel. Normal puppy or dog wormers will not kill this. 2) tapeworms are transmitted by fleas. So you will have to do flea control as well.

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