Average cost for tapeworm treatment on dog?
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010 at
7:06 pm
I just got a dog on saturday, and she’s the cutest thing. At first, we though she had kennel cough, and the kennel’s vet said it was nothing to worry about. Well, she stopped coughing, but she’s still not eating and looking sickly. She has diarreah, and yesterday I noticed something that looked like fettucini sticking out of her butt. It went back in, she didnt drop it. I think it’s tapeworm. We’re taking her to the vet today, but I wanted to prepare myself beforehand. How much should the treatment for tapeworm cost?
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That dont sound like a tapeworm but if it is…..
It should be no more than $15 but a puppy exam might be 35 depending on the prices at your vet’s office. being that your dog is still a puppy they might just give her (Drontal Canine 22mg) and if she is still small they will just break it in half and tell you to give her half now and the rest 2 weeks from today. I suggest buying little jacks puppy snacks if they do. They are small soft little treats you can push the pill into so that your puppy will eat it without spitting it back out.
All you have to do is call the vet before going and ask how much it’s going to cost for the exam and medicine. They might not be able to tell you actually pricing because they won’t know what else your puppy might need but they can give you more less the estimate of what you can be looking forward to paying.
Well, you have to put in the cost for the exam and first set of vaccinations, plus the medication for the tapeworm and other dewormer.
My pup’s first vet appointment, and he did have a tapeworm, was around 90 bucks.
But, honestly, that doesn’t sound like a tapeworm, when a dog has a tapeworm, usually all you would see are small rice-like segments in the pup’s stool. But, the vet will determine which type of worm and will give proper medication.
I am guessing what you saw wasn’t a tape worm (acquired by ingesting fleas) but a roundworm, hookwork, or some other intestinal worm. Tapeworms present as rice like segments in the fecal matter and around the anus.
She may have a full compliment of worms, so her worming regime will consist of a likely three day dose of Panacur and one of Droncit or Drontal for the tapes. Cost will vary from vet to vet.
For just tapeworm treatment, my vet would charge less than 20 for the medicine. But vet prices vary.
At the least $90. At the most $1,000.
It all depends on th veterinarian and how much experience he or she has had in the buisness of being a vetrinarian and how much she or he has studied the symptoms of tapeworm and how to get rid of it.
I have to agree, that doesn’t sound like tapeworm, probably a different kind of worm or something else that she ate (something stringy maybe.) My dog had tapeworms once. I took him out and when I bent down to pick up his poo, I noticed little white thingees, again kinda like rice, but as I got closer, I could see that they had little pointed heads and that they were moving. I was HORRIFIED. I rushed him to the vet that same morning, and of course they acted like it was no big deal. They gave him a shot of something, and they gave me another pill to give him 3 weeks later. I can’t remember how much exactly it was, because he had a bath the same day, but I think it was around $45 total, so that would make the worm treatment around $30. (Although I think it depends on their weight. Mine is a beagle so he’s small.) After I gave him the pill 3 weeks later, I called to ask when I should bring him back in for a follow up, but they said if we hadn’t seen more worms, he was probably fine. And I didn’t. So it’s apparently not a big deal. But still GROSS.
You can buy an adequate tapeworm killer at the PetSmart store. But if it is a new dog, she needs to see the vet anyway,. Keep you dog flea free and she will not get tapeworms.