What Kind of Person.....

[MonsterDad]

What kind of person would want to try to worm a dog with ground pumpkin seeds?

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[Sharon]

a person who is uneducated about deworming and needs guidance

[jwnissen]

What kind of person would want to try to worm a dog with ground pumpkin seeds?

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Now i'm interested in the story behind this!! Do tell.

[MonsterDad]

What kind of person would want to try to worm a dog with ground pumpkin seeds?

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Now i'm interested in the story behind this!! Do tell.

Got a call from a friend with a really nice dog that has a tapeworm. So he said he was giving the dog ground pumpkin seeds cause his GF said it was safer because it was natural. I laughed, because even holistic vets don't recommended wormers like that.

Not sure why anyone would choose something so silly to worm a dog. There is some documentation that there is a compound in pumpkin seeds that could work, but there is nothing on how much to give and whether it actually works when fed.

I guess he will learn the hard way. With a tape you have no idea if the worm is dead.

[onuhunter02]

I may do many things unorthodox but there is a soft spot in my heart for our pets. I feel bad for the poor dog because that will be the one who suffers from the ignorance.

[ezzy333]

I find this no different than what we read on here everyday about feeding dogs. People are often taught by their parents and G-parents and they don't question what they hear. And though it isn't always right, it is probably better than where much of mis-information that floats around on the net.

Ezzy

[brad27]

People used to deworm with cigarette tobacco. It's natural.

[Cajun Casey]

There are many well respected holistic practioners with articles out on this practice.

[campgsp]

Someone that doesn't take there dogs for regular checkups and shots. Obviously if they did they would know what a vet is for :roll:

[ezzy333]

Someone that doesn't take there dogs for regular checkups and shots. Obviously if they did they would know what a vet is for :roll:

There are a lot of us guilty of this since the vet's office is the absolute best place in the world to contract every disease known to man. That and I am not a fan of preventative medicine and over the past 50 years it has worked without exception.

Ezzy

[MonsterDad]

If there is a better and safer way to worm, I am all for it, but the only study I can find was on goats and apparantly it did not show any efficacy on the worms or the anemia.

[dr tim]

Saw this in a pharmacy museum in New Orleans once. In the 1890's weight loss tablets that were sold by one company were tapeworm eggs. People took them and the tapeworm removal device was a pinecone they would swallow after they lost the desired weight. Ouch.

[Georgia Boy]

What kind of person would want to try to worm a dog with ground pumpkin seeds?

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Hippies Right after they smoked a joint or ate some brownies