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I'm a veterinarian. I don't quite understand your post. Food and intestinal worms have nothing to do with each other. Are you actually seeing worms in her poop? Have you taken her in to the vet and had a fecal test done? If she is a cat that goes outside, she's much more likely to get reinfected if in fact she does have some type of worm. Most commonly they have roundworms, but hookworms and tapeworms are possible.
Pet issue 😢 please help
Ok, my I have ran out of ideas. With the influx of women with cats and female veterinarians, this is a last stitch effort to figure out what to do. My sweet kitten is 4. She started on dry food, low grade, she was a rescue. I've been here mom since she was 2 weeks old her mom abandoned her. She's the sweetest, she potty trained in the first month, she's the smartest cat I've known. But for some reason I have had to deworm her so much in the last 2 years. She was getting into my mother's cats food and it was leading me to believe that was the culprit ($2 cats food isn't exactly what they require) so I switched her to wet cat food(2 years ago ), expensive but whatever, anything for my binxx. She snubbed her nose up at it and still tried to eat the horrible corn garbage. Well We have 2 other cats and after getting into our own home we switched them to nutro max, binxx kept getting into it and I was worried. For a few weeks she had no worms, thinking we FINALLY found a dry food her sister (not related they're both adopted lol clearly ) would actually eat and she could digest without worms "hell yea give her the nutro!" Yesterday she had worms AGAIN! I'm at a loss of ideas. I don't know what else to do for my sweet girl 😢 can someone please help me help her? That cat saved my life and I hate not being able to find anything that will keep her tum happy.
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I'm a vet student so I'm not all knowledgable yet and also no qualified vet can legally help you without a physical exam and actually talking to you. Cats shouldn't get worms from their food. Worms are a parasite and come from the environment. She'd have to actually eat the eggs of the worms or the worms themselves in order to get them. They'd die in the food- worms need a host to live in and the eggs wouldn't survive in the food during processing, etc. So I highly doubt it's the food. Does she go outside? Does she have access to any kind of carcass (birds, mice, etc)? That would be way more likely. The medication might also not be working and so the original infestation isn't actually getting killed off. But also know that animals are dewormed once a year by regulation. But I'm guessing you're seeing the worms in her stool? You should go back to your vet. Bring a stool sample with the worms (gross I know but they'll be able to look at the sample to help with diagnosis). Talk to your vet about what you're finding and hopefully they'll be able to find a solution. No one on here can give you any real advice on how to help your animal because even with a DVM they won't have all the information on the cat- it'd be against the code of practice for any vet.
Maybe she needs to be put on a dewormer every month. Usually they pair it with flea/tick treatment and if you buy them in large amounts, sometimes you can get a couple for free. But I agree with the others, worms come from the environment. Also if this cat is sharing a litter box, the others are at risk for them as well.
Worms are not from food. If it's tapeworms, it's from her digesting fleas, meaning you need to put her and your cats on a flea medicine ASAP and you need to treat your house. She is an indie cat correct?
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It it is roundworms it is from them eating things outside.
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But worms are in absolutely no way related to food. If you don't give them all flea medication she will continue to get worms. Have you talked to your vet about this??
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