Puppy eating snails!

[Mr Scruff]

Our 14 week old pup loves snails. She's covered by Advocate flea and lungworm treatment so the vet isn't worried but it's fecking grim!

1) Anything other than lungworm we should worry about?
2) Any advice on how to stop her, other than walking her on a lead in the garden or 'she'll grow out of it'? Wiping off snail trail from her chin is unpleasant to say the least!

[ReaderScars]

Not sure if fundamentally slugs and snails are the same wrt parasites, but slugs carry/can carry a parasite which is lethal to dogs (and humans).

[Turn7]

Pups will try anything, but should grow up out of the weirder stuff.....

[Phud]

French bulldog?

[Smiler.]

ReaderScars said:

Not sure if fundamentally slugs and snails are the same wrt parasites, but slugs carry/can carry a parasite which is lethal to dogs (and humans).

Absolutely this, both I think - Lungworm.

And iirc, by the time the symptoms appear, it's too late.

We dose ours once a month to protect them, prescription needed though.

[ATG]

Phud said:

French bulldog?

Thought they specialised in peeling dried frogs off tarmac? Sort of canine biltong.

[Stickyfinger]

ATG said:

Phud said:

French bulldog?

Thought they specialised in peeling dried frogs off tarmac? Sort of canine biltong.

Ummm...tarmac dried Crispy Frog.....yummy

[Mr Scruff]

Smiler. said:

Absolutely this, both I think - Lungworm.

And iirc, by the time the symptoms appear, it's too late.

We dose ours once a month to protect them, prescription needed though.

We do the same, she's covered against lungworm but is there anything else to worry about?

And not a bulldog, she's a Cockapoo. Cute but (currently) dumb! Great family mutt tho.

[BOR]

There is the risk of potential fatal consequences if the snails or slugs have ingested slug pellets.

if they contain Metaldehyde, then the nervous system of anything that ingests them will be attacked.

Consequences are death unless treated immediately, and even then it's 50/50.