My dog has rice-like worms & seeds. How to treat all pets & yard?

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Discovered my dog has tape worms. "Rice" looking paracites in his feces & dangling from his anus. Discovered "seed" like things in his bed & mine. We live with two outside dogs who could have transfered fleas to him. 1st question is should all our pets get treated? Secondly, since I cannot control where the outside dogs dedicate, how do I treat my yard for that (fleas)? 3rd, reading garlic in food helps as treatment, is this true? Last, is a flea collar an effective preventive measure? Pet's info: Dog | Mixed Breed | Male | neutered | 4 months and 10 days old | 41.89 lbs

Andrea M. Brodie, DVM · Accepted Answer

Please do not feed your dogs garlic as this can cause blood disease. Treat all dogs for tape worm with a wormer containing Praziquantel. Treat all dogs for fleas with a topical flea preventive every month. Here are products that work well: Spot-ons and/or chews Advantage, Advantix Advantage Multi (Advocate in the UK) Frontline (ticks as well) Bravecto spot on (ticks as well) - for cats, in tablet form for dogs Simparica, Nexgard Revolution (stronghold in the UK) Tablets: comfortis (will only kill fleas once) Collar: Seresto (ticks as well) The only flea collar I would recommend is the Seresto collar.

My dog has rice-like worms & seeds. How to treat all pets & yard?

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