can any one give advise lung worm, my friend has a lab that goes hunting with her hubby and she has be told that tilly has lung worm by the vet.
any help would be great.
She has told her hubby tilly isn't going out with him any more.

Lung worm is very easy to deal with all you need is Panacur for 7 days.

Basically they are in the grass, ground, snails, slugs etc all the things dogs love to eat!  An animal (farming background showing now lol) ingests the larvae which then pass thru the intestinal wall and migrate to the lungs where they develop and breed within 28 days you've got a breeding colony.  Once they start breeding the animal produces excess mucus and starts to cough which is needed to pass the larvae out of the body again either by being swollowed and passed via their dung or coughed out.

Tilly going hunting or not won't make a jot of difference if she's a snail or grass eater chances are she will pick up lungworms in the local park as one of my puppy buyers found a few yrs back, she now uses panacur on her girl every mth.

Thanks Skip,
Tilly is coughing.
I will let my friend know.
not sure what her vet has her on.

Hi, My GSD had lungworm last month, probably from squashing snails and spitting them out ...UUURRRGH The vet gave me Advocate 'spot-on' drops for him which has cleared it completely in one treatment. She suggested using it about every 3 months on a regular basis as lungworm has got quite common and she is seeing a lot of cases ...including her own dog.
Chris

advice given thanks for replys,also told her to visit champdogs,
tilly was back at vets yesterday, haven't heard back from her yet, told her that the antibiotic's she was on was a waste of time she didn't need them.
she was going to tell the vet about panicur, fingers crossed they listened.

Your local vet can tell you if lungworm has reached the local snail population in your county. There is a map in many vet surgeries.

If you live in an 'at risk' county, it is wise to routinely worm for this parasite and Panacur is the old standby although the appropriate 'spot-on' is reliable.

I use a different formulation of worming product each time, with Panacur every 6 months, just to keep the little beggars on their toes :-)

Panacur is relatively cheap and I have a lot of dogs! ............And I have a walled garden so I also have a lot of snails...yukkkk