An urgent reminder re dogs and wormers

[JanetGeorge]

My girl groom, Sam, has been at the vet's all afternoon with her little JR, Pickle - who was taken critically ill this morning. It appears Pickle found a dollop of Equest spat out by one of the mares we wormed yesterday. Why on EARTH she would voluntarily eat something that tastes SO vile, who knows!!

We all know (I hope) of the dangers of Ivermectin to most breeds of dog - particularly Collies - but it seems Equest (or wormers containing Moxidectin) is even more dangerous than the straight Ivermectin wormers because it is absorbed so quickly. The initial symptoms - at least in Pickle's case(and according to the vet these are classic symptoms) - were shaking and shivering and trying to vomit. By the time she reached the vet, the 'nervous' symptoms were SO bad that it made her treatment extremely difficult as she had become highly agitated and aggressive (and Pickle is the LEAST aggressive JR I have ever met!!)

I've just had a call from the vet who says she is on the mend - although still on a drip and being closely monitored. So a lucky escape - please be VERY careful with all wormers - but particularly Equest - if you have dogs. The quantity this little dog could have found was VERY small - but it was enough to nearly kill her.

 

[sueandtoto]

Oh no poor Pickle

, hope he's on the mend x

 

[spaniel]

Fingers crossed (and paws too) for Sams JR and thank you for posting. Im always really careful about the ivermectin but didnt realise the moxi was even worse.

Heaven knows why dogs feel the need to eat half the things they do....

 

[JessPickle]

poor thing, hope he feels a lot better soon. At least your friend realised what had happened

 

[JanetGeorge]

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TBH, neither of us realised - I thought she'd been eating disgusting things out of the incinerator - my Foxhound x Lab, Leah, was violently sick at the week-end after retrieving incinerated placenta!! It was the new vet at the practice - who is actually a horse vet and ace at scanning - that asked if we'd been worming lately!! She (the vet) is a star - she's rung me twice with updates as well as dealing with Sam who was out of her mind with worry!

The latest is that she's staying in overnight - but should be fine. She's still - as the vet put it - seeing gremlins - but she's stopped trying to remove their hands so that HAS to be good!

 

[Coffee_Bean]

Omg

Is it as dangerous if they eat wormed horses poo?? I knew they were dangerous but didnt know they were THAT dangerous!

 

[JanetGeorge]

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Is it as dangerous if they eat wormed horses poo?? I knew they were dangerous but didnt know they were THAT dangerous!

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Potentially, yes. But in reality the risk is lower as the Moxidectin is quickly absorbed into the horse's system and the amount excreted in the droppings will be much more dilute (unless dog eats a LOT of horse poo!)

 

[ibot]

OMG that is terrible poor pickles glad to hear he is on the mend
Thank you for reminding me that my dog needs worming

 

[scotsmare]

Wow, that's awful, hope little dog gets better soon x

 

[merlinsquest]

It is soooo interesting what you can learn on this forum....... I didnt know that wormer was poisonous to dogs at all

Assumed that is should be kept safe but not that it was sooo toxic!!!

 

[Sprout]

OMG - exactly the same thing happened to my daughter's collie last year - she pulled through and is fine now, but we really thought she was not going to survive.

 

[jacks_mum]

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It is soooo interesting what you can learn on this forum....... I didnt know that wormer was poisonous to dogs at all

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I didn't know that either

Thanks for the warning and I hope Pickle makes a full recovery

 

[Leary]

I'm glad I read this post because I had no idea about this at all.

 

[mon]

similar happened to our JR terrier but licked sheep pour on fly stuff from ack of land rover, contacted manufacturers not even a sorry

 

[JanetGeorge]

Vet said the makers of Equest were very helpful - of course it's not the manufacturer's fault if the wrong animal eats their product.

Thankfully there's a happy ending to this one - Sam picked Pickle up this afternoon and she's nearly better (and sporting a nice blue bandage where the drip was!)