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Duggan Veterinary Supplies
Holycross
Thurles
Co Tipperary
Rep of Ireland
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FAX:+353 (0) 504 43147
E-mail: info@dugganvet.ie

Drontal For Dogs & Cats

Do you know the facts about the intestinal worms that can affect your cat’s or dog’s health?

Everybody is familiar with earthworms – harmless creatures that actually do a bit of good in the garden.

But right there in your garden, there could be the eggs or larvae of some very different worms, far from harmless, and quite capable of doing serious damage to the health of your pet and your family!

You would rarely see these worms, of course, because they spend their whole adult lives inside your dog or cat's intestines, feeding off their blood and the food that they eat.

There are several different species of intestinal worms that can infect cats and dogs in the UK. Some are only a few millimetres long, others can grow to a staggering 5 metres in length (and if that makes you squirm, imagine how your pet must feel!) Some live off the contents of the gut (in effect, scavenging the animal's food) while others attach themselves to the gut wall and live off the animal's blood.

And worst of all, some can infect people as well as pets – which is probably the best reason of all to keep your pet worm-free.

Drontal Plus Flavour
For 20 years, Drontal Plus Flavour as been overwhelmingly vets' first line choice of wormer.

Like all Drontal tablets, it works with a single dose, and can be given with or without food. For dogs, the new artificial beef flavour makes it less like a treatment, and more like a treat

Drontal Oral Suspension for Puppies
Unweaned puppies are hardly ever infected with tapeworms, but they are particularly at risk from roundworms, transmitted both via their mother’s milk and from other pups in the litter. That’s why puppies should be wormed every fortnight, up to 12 weeks of age. And with its highly palatable, easily administered liquid formulation, Drontal Puppy Suspension is idea

Drontal Plus XL
Because a St. Bernard may weigh 20 times more than a Chihuahua, worming big dogs used to require as many as 6 tablets. Not any more! With Drontal Plus XL, you can worm a 35 kg dog with just one tablet

Drontal Cat Tablets
Drontal Cat XLTablets

Both will tackle every type of intestinal worm your cat is ever likely to get, and both will do so with a single dose, and without having to starve your cat first. The only difference is that Cat XL Tablets are specially formulated for cats of 4-6kg and over, so that most big cats can be treated with a single tablet.

To avoid worms reaching maturity and affecting your pet's health, and to reduce public health risks, you should worm your pet regularly. Worming at least every three months with Drontal will reduce this risk, but ask your vet who will be able to evaluate your pet's health and your family's requirements and advise you on a specific worming routine for your pet.

Don’t forget the flea control! Fleas are often infected with the larvae of the Flea Tapeworm, which can be transferred to your cat by swallowing the flea while grooming. So in order to control worms, you also need to control fleas. A spot-on treatment is the easiest way to protect your cat – but you may also need one that kills flea larvae in your pet's surroundings, to effectively break the flea lifecycle.

If you don’t control a flea problem at the same time as worming, your cat is almost certain to be re-infected.

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