Cat wormer.

[plowjockey]

We have over a dozen cats, so a trip to the vet is out. Noticed what looked like "dental floss" in their poop.

Looking for industrial strength at a bulk price.

What do you use?

[CarolT]

Can you separate them to be sure who gets wormed and not? Can you handle all of them?

[Ravenlost]

We get worm pills at the vet's and they gave us a "pill popper" to make it easier to get down each cat's throat.

[How Do I]

We've got a few more than a dozen and use liquid Piperazine for Roundworms. Works great as far as I can tell. It doesn't take that much at all. Use a needle-less syringe to dose.

[Tricky Grama]

Mix some diatomaceus earth into their food. NOT the swimming pool kind.

[upnorthlady]

What you are seeing is probably roundworms. Go to your local farm/feed supply store and get piperazine and dose it at 0.1 ml per lb. I use a small syringe and more or less guess the weight of the adult cats, and weigh the kittens on a small scale. Piperazine tastes not too bad for cats, so they don't mind it. This stuff will not work on tapeworms (looks like little segments of rice). I buy tapeworm meds online (praziquantel), but it runs about 3 bucks a pill. Farm cats are all hunters, so you will never get them completely worm free (even if you give them a tapeworm pill, they will go out and get a mouse and re-infect themselves), but I worm them all periodically. I worm the kittens with piperazine, and sometimes you have to do it twice. I used to be a vet tech, and most clinics would sell these wormers to farmers for their cats, but I'm not sure if they do this anymore. (It's been 11 ys since I worked in a vet's office!)

[PNP Katahdins]

I'm with the piperazine and dosing syringe crowd if you can catch each one and not get hurt squirting something down their throats. You can try putting it in a dish with a little milk first for individual cats, but that doesn't always work. Mine get treats while I'm still holding them. Write down who gets wormed and the date. Just guesstimate the weights. Piperazine is extremely safe and works pretty well. Cheap and available the farm store in the pet section.

Peg

[dbarjacres]

I ivermectin the outside cats - have done orally (and injectable in some TINY kittens we found in winter with mites). Never had any issues, cats look great. 1/10th cc / 10 lbs, so a diabetic syringe works great. WARNING! Just do not overdose! I was not thinking clearly and dewormed them at the rabbit dosage once (which is 10x higher) and had cats that acted like they had rabies. I got bit and had to lock them up in a stall for 10 days, meanwhile the vet and I figured out what I did. Scarey. All cats turned out fine.

The 2 inside cats I get pills from the vet.

[Jokarva]

I can throw a worm into a pill bottle, show it to my Vet and she knows what I need. Gives me enough wormer for all the cats without a visit.

[uncle Will in In.]

I only have one cat that I call ours. He's a big old black lover boy. Last spring he was looking a little ragged and run down at the heel. I figured a good worming would straighten him up. I got a bottle of stuff at the farm store and proceeded to pour it on his cat food in the barn. I wasn't sure how much to pour on that much food, so I dicided ti err on the high side. I had to call him. After a few loud Kitty, Kitties, he showed up. Right behind him came the neighbors three house cats. They all dived in and gobbled it all up. Poor old Tom didn't get his full share.
That night my neighbors called and asked if we had any sick cats. I said Old Tom is here on the porch. Why do you ask? Neighbor said, right now our three cats are in the litter box. One is digging, one is squating, and the other one is covering up!!
I said good grief, must be something going around!!

[wogglebug]

I can't remember the details now, but I went into the farm supply store and read the instructions and contents on cat wormers. It was the same stuff as used in dog wormers, but from memory less per pound weight for cats than for dogs. I read the same on the dog wormers, and it was the same product, roughly the same price per tablet, but heaps more bang for the buck. I jotted the ingredient per cat tablet and the dose per pound of cat in a notebook, bought a small packet of dog wormer and broke the tablets down to give the right amount for the cats. You might find the same stuff in other livestock wormers as well, and they might be even cheaper than dog wormers - I don't know now, but it's worth a look.
You can cut the tablets - you can even buy a pill cutter from the pharmacy. Any that don't break right, you can grind the remnants with two spoons - stuff in one spoon bowl, grind with the back of bowl of the other spoon.

[highlands]

I would de-worm the cat rather than worming it. :}

[plowjockey]

I found some liquid piperazine, at Orchelns.

We usually catch the kittens/cats and wrap them in a towel, so it's harder for them to move.

thanks

[DamnearaFarm]

Originally Posted by highlands

I would de-worm the cat rather than worming it. :}

One of my 'pet' peeves as well