Cat Puked Up Worms

The most common unwanted tenants of your cats digestive tract are roundworms tapeworm and coccidia.

Cat puked up worms. He has been eating fine always available dry food and wet food twice a day. Frequent vomiting with the presence of adult worms in the vomit diarrhea dehydration as a result of watery stools worm segments around the anal area anemia distended belly intestinal blockage in animals that arent treated in time loss of appetite loss of. Tapeworm in cats is 100 treatable and your cat will be just fine. Share a litter box or have microscopic traces of stool traced in on their feet etc.

Aside from the stomach churning discovery in your cats vomit you may never suspect he has worms. It sounds like she vomited up some roundworms which are one of the most common types of intestinal parasites. Biting and ingesting fleas can also lead to. Once the initial gagging of discovering the presence of worms in your cats gut has passed you may wonder.

If you notice worms in the cats vomit you may also observe a few other signs such as. My 10 year old cat today threw up what i believe was a worm. The most common is picking it up from their mothers and the others are. If your cat threw up a few tapeworms the first thing to do is remain calm.

Kittens can pick up worm eggs via their mothers milk young cats may get hookworm infections via their skin and tapeworms are caught by ingesting fleas infected rodents and rabbits. If not in the field they play outside daily. Roundworms look like short strands of thick white thread and a cat with a particularly bad case may actually vomit them. These nasty pests are acquired in a number of ways.

Intestinal parasites or worms commonly occur in kittens and cats. I called my vet. Symptoms of roundworm infestation in cats. Signs of roundworm infestation in cats increase in appetite sluggish behavior lack of self grooming diarrhea.

Worms in the stool and diarrhea anemia lack of appetite and weight loss coughing swollen stomach dry skin and dull coat general state of weakness. Cats and dogs are born with them and can be contagious amongst the animals who are loose amongst each other ie. Worms produce more eggs that are shed in the cats feces and spread to other hosts. I do however have two active hunting dogs.

Eating rodents with infested roundworms is another way to get infestation. He is an indoor cat only. Next take him to the vet immediately for treatment to avoid any additional suffering. The earliest he can get him in is tomorrow at 2.