The adult
whipworm lays eggs inside the large intestines of an infected dog.
Not exact matches
Whipworms latch on to the mucosa layer of the cecum or colon of the cat, feeding and
laying eggs.
If your cat drinks water from an outside source or even licks her paws after being outside, she could pick up one of the 2,000
whipworm eggs a female can
lay in a day.
Diagnosis of a
whipworm infection can be difficult because
whipworms do not
lay eggs continuously the way roundworms and hookworms do.
Whipworms are harder to detect because they fasten themselves to the wall of the gut and
lay fewer eggs, which makes finding eggs in the feces more difficult.
Whipworms do not lay many eggs, so several stool samples need to be examined to determine if whipworms are the potential
Whipworms do not
lay many eggs, so several stool samples need to be examined to determine if
whipworms are the potential
whipworms are the potential culprit.