Yesterday afternoon I picked up seven 4-week old puppies from the Champaign County Humane Society. We’ll have them for a month or so, then they’ll go back to CCHS for adoption.
They’re filthy, smell really bad, and were infested with fleas and roundworms. Fleas can be a very serious problem for puppies. Not only do fleas carry tapeworms, if the population gets out of hand the fleas can actually suck enough blood from a puppy to make it anemic. The pups will be tested for tapeworms in a couple of weeks.
Roundworms, which look a little like spaghetti, are equally dangerous. They live in the intestines and take up nutrients that puppies need to grow. A telltale sign of roundworms in a puppy is a large, distended belly. People often mistake a puppy’s big belly as a cute sign of health, but it’s actually quite the opposite.
The medical staff at CCHS gave them medication to kill the worms and treated the pups with Advantage to get rid of the fleas. The pups will be wormed at least one more time before leaving us to go to their new homes.
| Bart (m) |  |
| Ned (m) |  |
| Homer (m) |  |
| Maude (f) |  |
| Lisa (f) |  |
| Maggie (f) |  |
| Marge (f) |  |
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