Dont let your dog near any horse wormer!

[bexw2000]

If your dog goes with you to the stables please be very careful when you worm your horse.
I came home from work on Friday to find Molly, my usually over exuberant Labrador shaking and unable to see. I took her straight to the vet who recognised the symptoms of sudden blindness and muscle spasms as an effect of contact with horse wormer.
The vet explained that the ‘new’ super strong wormers work by affecting the neurological systems of the worms and that he had seen a few dogs who had ingested very small amounts of these wormers showing these terrible symptoms. Just licking the horses nose after you have syringed the wormer down or licking a feed bowl which has had wormer in it can be enough.
There is no antidote so the only thing to do was to take Molly home, try to keep her calm and wait.
After 24 hours the muscle spasms started to cease and Molly’s sight started to return.
I’m pleased to say that 48 hours later Molly was back to her usual self except for being very tired. There seems to be no lasting effects, however it was a very frightening experience for both Molly and myself.

The wormer we had used at the stables the previous evening was Equest Pramox, but I believe that some of the other strong wormers may have the same affects.

 

[vennessa]

Crikey what an awful experience for you. I am glad your dog has recovered.
We have talks on worming and the lecturers do give warnings nowadays about the new wormers. I know breeders that have used horse wormers on their dogs for years. I hope they don't use paramox.

 

[brightmount]

Thanks for the warning. There is widespread awareness of the danger of horse wormers to Border Collies, but it just shows that any dog can have a bad reaction.

I'm glad poor Molly was OK.

 

[mon]

Our JR terrier got Dysect fly treatment for sheep on her once and had similar symptoms, just make sure you know where all medicienes, some companies don't even give a warning on the packet, wouldn't hurt them to.

 

[Sprout]

Our Border Collie pup came into contact with a tiny amount of wormer, she was very ill and we thought she was going to have permanent neurological damage, if not worse. We had been so careful, worming in the stables, and only letting the dogs down there several hours later after hosing/sweeping etc.

So glad your poor dog was ok.

 

[foxviewstud]

what a horrible experience for you i think this information should be spread to all horse and dog owners as a lot of people worm their dogs with horse wormer god knows y

 

[brightmount]

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WTF??? Are you serious???

 

[TarrSteps]

Some of the more established preparations are the same for horses and dogs, some aren't. It's not something anyone should be messing around with but that doesn't stop some people.

Another, similar, warning . . A friend of mine had a horse PTS by injection and for reasons related to the circumstances there was some bleeding at the injection site. While their attention was taken with talking to the vet etc. her GSD slipped in a licked up the blood.

Shortly after she fell very ill and, in fact, eventually died of complications. None of us, vet included, had ever heard of such a thing happening but it does seem a reason for caution.

 

[Sooty]

You have to be vigilant with dogs eating horse poo for the same reason.

 

[foxviewstud]

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WTF??? Are you serious???

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afraid so i hate the thought of my dogs being anywhere near it and the horses for a while as they are guilty for eating poo! and i only ever use drontal for my dogs as i know its 100%safe for the collie unlike the supermarket rubbish

 

[JanetGeorge]

I posted a warning about this just a month ago when my groom's little JR picked up a small dollop of Equest spat out by a horse. She nearly died! Equest is the high risk one because it is absorbed so quickly and then stored in the body fat - getting them to throw-up - unless it's within minutes - doesn't help.