CAN SOMEONE HELP ME , PLEASE

[BIGMAMA24]

I HAVE A YORKIE TERRIER HE IS   COUPLE YEARS OLD CAME FROM ABUSIVE HOME WE'VE HAD HIM 2WKS NOW I'VE NOTICED WHEN GOES OUTSIDE TO THE BATHROOM  TO DO HIS BUISNESS I GO OUT AFTER HIM  AND CLEAN IT UP [I'M NOT A NASTY PERSON] THERE ARE LITTLE YELLOW THING'S IN IS POOP IT'S NOT WORM'S EVERY MORING HE COMES OUT OF IS BED HE SLEEPS IN A CAGE /BED IT IS FULL OF THESE LITTLE YELLOW THINGS AND THEN THIS MORNING THERE WAS LIKE 1000 OF THEM THEY DONT MOVE IF YOU TAKE THEM TRY TO SMASH THEM THERE'S NOTHING THERE IT'S LIKE LITTLE PIECES OK STRAW THEY DONT MOVE EITHER

[BIGMAMA24]

U GO GIRL !!!!!!

[Ghilly]

If  you read BIGMAMA'S post, she said that she has an appointment for her dog on Wednesday.  If you must be nasty, it might make more sense to make sure that the situation you choose to be nasty about actually exists.  

Ghilly

[BIGMAMA24]

are you blind

[chihuawa10]

You need to invest a little bit of money and take your dog to the vet. If not, then you should not keep him.

[BIGMAMA24]

thank you very much for you info i made a appt for wednesday for a complete check up they are going to let me pay half of the bill and make payments my cat goes there to so they all now us so i'm glad they are going to help us my kids cryed b/c they thought we was going to get rid of the noodles i told them no we've had our cat lucky since he was 5wks old we bottle feed him now he weighs 22 pds thax to everybody info and happy easter

[Ghilly]

It sounds to me like tapeworm segments.  When they dry up they are yellow in color and they're about half the size of a grain of rice.  Over the counter wormers will not work on tapeworms, tapes require a special kind of wormer.  The idea with a tapeworm is to kill the head, which attaches itself to the intestinal lining.  There are two good wormers for getting rid of tapeworms, both of them are available from your vet.  One is Cestex, it's a small red pill.  The other is Droncit, and it is injectable.  There is another wormer called Drontal that kills other worms besides tapeworms (Cestex and Droncit are strictly for tapeworms) so if your dog has not been wormed in a while, it might be best to take a fecal sample in to the vet's office and let them process it to see if there are other internal parasites as well.  That way you can worm the dog for everything at once.

Ghilly  

[Jaybay]

There are over-the-counter worm medicines you could try, but since you don't know exactly what kinds of worms you're dealing with these meds may not be effective.  Since you've only had this dog 2 weeks, you really need to take him to the vet for an overall checkup.  It is even more vital that you do this because he came from an abusive situation.  There is no telling if he's ever had medical care of any kind - including rabies vaccination.  Think of it this way: if you adopted an abused child, wouldn't you take that child to a doctor?

[BIGMAMA24]

he eats good sleeps good every things good except this problem here can you buy something in stores

[Jaybay]

No, people can't get them.  I doubt it's whip worms as they don't show up in feces because they're so tiny.  Your best bet is to have your vet assess the problem and prescribe an appropriate worm treatment.  Heartworm preventive medication also prevents intestinal worm infestation, but won't get rid of already existing worms.

We rescued a dog who was probably born in the wild.  Lord only knows what happened to his mother and siblings.  We found him by the side of a dirt road in the country - starving and bald from mange and skin infection.  In addition to mange dips every 2 weeks, the vet wormed him twice and we thought that was the end of it.  As the mange kept coming back every 2 weeks, our vet tried one heartworm treatment in desperation.  (These were the days before ivermectin.)  I had no idea it was arsenic and was horrified at how sick he got within 30 minutes of the injection.  It didn't cure the mange, but that poor dog had 2 days of diarrhea that culminated in the last several movements being nothing but solid masses of worms.  Unbelievable.  Never had a worm problem after that episode!

[BIGMAMA24]

CAN PEOPLE CATCH THEM ARE THEY CURABLE

[BIGMAMA24]

CAN  YOU BUY SOME THING FROM THE STORE

[LL7970]

Sounds like worms.  Possibly whip worms. Take him to the vet as soon as possible.