Question by doctormadjam: My cat had a tape-worm. Can I put it in my kids home worm farm?.?
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10 Responses to My cat had a tape-worm. Can I put it in my kids home worm farm?.?
uh..thats kinda gross but um..if you want…id think that it would die but uh…
Um ….NO! Gesh. Bad Idea!
1) Why would you want to ?
2) How are you going to get it out?
3) Being an intestinal parasite, it can not live outside of the intestinal track.
Oh Lord. A tapeworm, if eaten by a child can grow 30 feet long in your child’s intestine!! EWWWW.
Get your cat dewormed at the vet and please don’t handle any tapeworms and be sure to vacuum up the little rice looking larvae around your house. If ONE just of those gets into a person’s mouth and is swallowed, it makes a tapeworm inside you!
Absolutely not. the worm could get assimilated by another animal and then when the animal defecates, you have the source of more worms since each segment is capable of regeneration into a complete worm. Worse would be that the defecation occurs outdoors and your yard becomes infested. Kill that hungry mother day before yesterday.
uh..thats kinda gross but um..if you want…id think that it would die but uh…
kala_bean08
January 28, 2012 at 12:10 pm
Why would you want to? Anyway, they can’t live outside the host body.
GeneJohn
January 28, 2012 at 12:51 pm
First of all that’s gross….and second no cause it will die without a host to feed off of.
Confused
January 28, 2012 at 12:58 pm
Um ….NO! Gesh. Bad Idea!
1) Why would you want to ?
2) How are you going to get it out?
3) Being an intestinal parasite, it can not live outside of the intestinal track.
donamarie_1
January 28, 2012 at 1:42 pm
Only if the worm farm is in your gut.
Dav
January 28, 2012 at 2:19 pm
Oh Lord. A tapeworm, if eaten by a child can grow 30 feet long in your child’s intestine!! EWWWW.
Get your cat dewormed at the vet and please don’t handle any tapeworms and be sure to vacuum up the little rice looking larvae around your house. If ONE just of those gets into a person’s mouth and is swallowed, it makes a tapeworm inside you!
a_phantoms_rose
January 28, 2012 at 3:17 pm
No, it’s a parasite and lives off of the food in the intestines of the host, in this case your cat. It’ll die.
greylady
January 28, 2012 at 3:33 pm
Absolutely not. the worm could get assimilated by another animal and then when the animal defecates, you have the source of more worms since each segment is capable of regeneration into a complete worm. Worse would be that the defecation occurs outdoors and your yard becomes infested. Kill that hungry mother day before yesterday.
bardmere
January 28, 2012 at 4:23 pm
no thats gross
sweetolivaanderm
January 28, 2012 at 4:53 pm
your stupid and nasty.
LadyCockatiel
January 28, 2012 at 5:31 pm