three new things I know more than I care to about
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No 1… Tapeworms
yes, when they appear squirming and wriggling in my puppies poop. Hold hand over my nose to avoid the stench and peer closely at these white moving things. What are they… little flat worms like flat grains of rice. A search on google comes up with tapeworms and apparently these are the segments that are pooped out. They get them from fleas, sheep shit, cow shit and various other things. We can get them too, mae me a bit paranoid for a few days, lots of wasing of hands and scrubbing under the fingernails after cleaning up after her (she is resisting the whole concept of house training)
No 2… Kennel Cough
Puppy started a hacking cough as if something is stuck in her throat. Its like a dog flu or cold, called canine cough or kennel cough. It gets transmited by air and if their immune systems aren`t strong they get it. Try listening to it at four in the morning.
No 3… ants
The weirdest of the three. Last night I opened the kitchen drawer to get some tinfoil and noticed ants in the tinfoil box again. Took out the box and saw them at the mouth of the tube. Lifted up the tube and looked inside, hundreds of ants! !$%/&&%%$!!!!!!!!!! got the tube outside and banged it on the ground and out comes a mound of ants and grubs. I threw the tube away. I did think about saving the tinfoil off it but dismissed that as over zealous not wanting to waste stuff.
Hopefully thats it. There are moths coming from somewhere also though. Little moths that are dusty like clothes moths. I am wondering are they the grubs and the ants were eating the grubs. Insects are strange sometimes. There are just so many of them!
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ewwww! gross! sounds like you’ve got your hands full! of bugs! yuck!! i hope your puppy starts feeling better soon- i think tapeworm is very treatable and i hope the cough is too
so, a few days ago we discovered the ants had moved to the food press and were hiding behind the bag of sugar. I moved them all out again outside and told them they couldn’t come live in my food cupboards. I found a few in another roll of tinfoil last night. They just don’t get the message!
also the black widow spider is industrially making more egg balls which disappear mysteriously after she is finished them
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