As with most rescue pooches Helix came to us with less than perfect health. We quickly enrolled him in doggy health insurance for accidents and illnesses and hopefully we won't need to use it. When Helix first arrived he was having a bit of a digestion issue but we chalked it up to "new environment". He seemed fine to us but our dog walker reported he was having loose stools on his walks so we put him on a chicken, rice and pumpkin diet. This went well aside from cooking more for our dog than ourselves! When we eased him back to regular food he started to have issues again and I noticed to my disgust that he had tapeworms! Yuck! Witnessing tapeworms crawling around in your dogs poop is revolting. Off to the vet he went with his tapeworm infested "sample". As it turned out, Helix not only had tapeworms but also Giardia, :( He's now on a couple of meds for the next few weeks. We think he's doing better and he's been very cooperative in the pill, and syringe department :) Unfortunately, due to the fact that giardia can be transmitted from dog to dog, he's current banned from his usual Wednesday and Friday pack walks.
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