I said so much on that 5-hour DVD, that it's hard to remember everything exactly. However, thinking about it more, sometimes the "standard dosage" isn't enough.

Case in Point: I had a bitch named Salsa, who was bred and delivered pups, and she looked like shit: skinny, drawn-down, etc. I had wormed her with the usual, correct dosages but she just looked like crap 3 weeks after delivery. It was cold (winter in TN), and I was feeding her what should have been enough to cover her needs (pups & all), and was scratching my head as to "why" she might be looking like that. I kept thinking "it had to be worms," but yet I had wormed her "normally" the day she had pups, and again at Week 3. So I decided to just BOMBARD her with wormers ... and I gave her a triple-dose of pyrantel, piperazine, panacur, and even ivermectin. The Result?: that poor bitch shit-out nothing but worms for almost three days straight

MORAL: standard dosages don't always work, becase sometimes parasites build resistance to the medicines you're using. In fact, by the time standard dosages "change" in vet books, you can best believe there were TENS OF THOUSANDS of instances of resistance that took place out in the field, before science and literature caught up to that fact. So don't be afraid to double- and triple dose your wormers (provided you don't do so on those that can be toxic).

The piperazine was a no-no for me to triple-dose on, but I did it anyway at the time. Probably wouldn't do that again though.

Jack