Can an 8-year-old lab recover from raccoon roundworm symptoms?

This is difficult to decide without knowing what wormer you are using. You may want to use a different wormer for your dog. Also do not use a wormer containing ivermectin. You may also want to take some fresh poop to your veterinarian and have it examined for worm eggs. If your vet cannot find any, then your dog may not have enough worms to warrant worming and you can delay the treatment.

Unfortunately, videos cannot load onto the PetCoach platform, so I am unable to see Hershey's current behaviors. However, the only way to diagnose heartworm disease is through blood tests that determine if the antibodies or antigens (depending on the test) of adult heartworms are present. Nearly every vet is able to perform this blood test at the time of an appointment, so I strongly recommend taking Hershey to his vet if heartworm disease is suspected. Dogs with heartworm disease may experience coughing, exercise intolerance, weight loss, among other signs. Heartworm disease is a very serious condition, and is fatal if left untreated. This website has some great information for further reading: https://www.heartwormsociety.org/pet-owner-resources . I hope that all goes well for Hershey!

Cocoa looks like she has a severe respiratory infection as well and would benefit from a prolonged course of antibiotics for her severe nasal discharge. Assuming that the dewormer given was appropriate for the types of worms/intestinal parasites that she has, she would typically need to be dewormed again in 2 weeks and have a reaper exam to confirm that she is negative for intestinal parasites in approximately 3 weeks. Pyrantel is effective against roundworms, hookworms and whipworms. For Tapeworms, she would need praziquantel or a broad spectrum dewormer such as Drontal Plus. For Giardia she would need metronidazole and Panacur and for coccidia, Albon is the medication of choice. All of these parasites are zoonotic and contagious to people and other dogs as well. Diligent handwashing after handling is recommended, as is diligent environmental cleanup as she can easily become re-infected if she walks back over stool left in the backyard and licks her paws. Good luck and best wishes for a speedy recovery!

I don't want to minimize any of your concerns, but the worm burden would have to be INCREDIBLY high in order to have life threatening consequences in a large breed puppy like a Pit bull. As of now, it doesn't even sound like your pup is experiencing any true diarrhea, so the worm burden is likely rather low. I think you are doing the right thing in having her looked at regularly to have fecal samples analyzed, but I wouldn't get too worried about all this. Worms in puppies is an extremely common finding, and is typically resolved after a few treatments with dewormer. Sometimes, a different dewormer must be chosen if the worms continue to thrive, but ultimately this tends to be a very treatable issue. In the event you were seeing a life threatening worm burden, your puppy would be extremely thin, likely having chronic diarrhea, severe dehydration, paleness, and would not be thriving at all. It doesn't sound like this is the case thankfully. Hope everything works out for you and your pup!

The symptoms you have described fit with a neurologic problem. Oscar needs a thorough neurologic examination to localize the possible lesion - is it the inner ear, vestibular system of the brain, a different part of the brain, or the spinal cord. Some higher doses of ivermectin can cause neurologic issues, and permanent damage is possible. There may not be a cure, but accurate diagnosis is necessary first. I would talk to your vet about referral to a specialist.

These look like roundworms. No they aren't deadly, but heavy burdens can make a puppy quite sick. Bailey will need a deworming treatment. I recommend Panacur or Drontal. Give him a dose asap. then another dose two weeks after the first to kill all the worms.

If you took a stool sample five days after Bronx was given the deworming treatment and then the sample showed no signs of worms, it likely means that the deworming treatment was effective and killed all the worms. The deworming treatment starts working within hours of administration to kill the worms present.