From
roundworm to hookworm to tapeworm, the worms love hibernating,
tunnelling and even going ferrying in your pet's body.
Each
of these worms have their own familiar perching spots. The
round worms like to get soaked and grab half digested morsels
of food plonking right in the middle of the intestine.
Other
worms prefer the gall bladder, bile duct and such other
esoteric places.
Favourite
worms haunts and jaunts include a cruise from stomach to
lungs, back to stomach and then intestine. From threadlike,
tapelike to cylindrical and leaf like they come in an astonishing
variety of shapes, sizes and colours.
The
tapeworm - the most frightening of them all cannot easily
be dislodged once it infects your cat. And that could be
anywhere from brain, heart to kidney and just about any
of the other abdominal organs.Whenever you feed your cat
meat, make sure that it's very well cooked. Also make sure
that your pets are free of fleas.
Once
worms invade your pet's body, then your pet could suffer
anything from severe anaemia, to fits, to lung infections....It
all depends on the species of the worm.
Therefore,
watch out! Deworm your pets and get them regularly examined
by the vet.
Some
common and not so common worms and flukes that can infect
your cats ( Some of the species listed below are very
rarely found in domestic cats but nevertheless have been
seen)
Stomach
worms - Physaloptera species.
Round
worms - Ascarid nematodes, Toxocara cati, Strongyloidosis,
Strongyloides cati.
Hookworms
- Ancylostoma tubaeformis.
Tapeworms
- Dipylidium caninum, Taenia taeniformis, Taenia pisiformis,
Taenia hydatigena, Diphyllobothrium, Echinococcus multilocularis,
Mesocestoides species, Taenia ovis.
Flukes
- Opisthorchis tenuicollis, Platynosomum fastosum, Metorchis
albidus, Metorchis conjunctus.
