The contact is
usually with feces - contaminated soil, sand, or kitty litter (often through bare feet).
Not exact matches
Most often CIH is spread through direct contact
with the virus
usually through urine,
feces or saliva.
While companion dogs are
usually kept indoors and often do not come into contact
with tainted meat or other wild animals that may have worms, contact
with other dogs or
feces in the park may cause transmission of parasitic worms like heartworm, tapeworm and roundworms.
It's
usually transmitted through contact
with an infected dog's mucus, watery secretions from the eyes or nose, urine or
feces.
Experimentally, it can persist longer and be carried about when shoes, hands or clothes are contaminated
with feces, but indirect environmental contamination is not how this virus
usually moves about.
The dogs do not eat their own
feces but they love to eat the cat's and they
usually throw it up later on the carpet,
usually along
with their dinner.
Alternatively, cats
usually want to mark
with urine and
feces around the perimeters of spaces.
Combine deworming
with feces cleanup in order that pets
usually are not reinfected by worm eggs that survive in the floor.
Fleas are hard to spot anyway,
usually the only visible sign is the flea dirt (
feces,) but felines
with flea allergy groom themselves, often grooming excessively, removing any sign of the parasites.
The goal in treatment is to help make the
feces more solid since dogs
with this problem
usually suffer from diarrhea or
feces which is highly liquid.
The urates are
usually in a blob or mixed in
with the
feces and should be white or beige.
These dogs are
usually found crammed into tiny cages
with other dogs, standing and sleeping in
feces and urine, their hair matted, skin painfully itchy from fleas or ticks, starving and malnourished.