Facts About Worms
- Female roundworms can produce hundreds of eggs every day – which reach the environment via dog faeces.
- Roundworm eggs can remain infective in grass or soil for two or more years.
- An untreated dog may be carrying hundreds, or even thousands, of roundworms inside it, without his owner being aware of this.
- Tapeworms can grow up to 5 metres in length.
- Tapeworm segments, which pass out via the dogs faeces, look like grains of rice – except that they move!
- Mistakenly, Victorian ladies considered it fashionable to swallow tapeworms in order to improve their waistlines!
- It only takes one tapeworm to tango! If a tapeworm can not find a partner to mate with it is fully capable of having sex with itself, and producing viable eggs.
Roundworm
Tapeworm
