Originally Posted by
SmileWiper
As for dosage, once again it's 1ml of the 10% solution, per 4.4lb of bodyweight, given 3 days in a row.
But actually, the dosage is BID now (twice daily) because of how weak Safeguard is as a wormer. What people need to understand is, Safeguard (fenbendazole) is actually intended for ruminants (cows and other cud-chewing herbivores), because the incredibly-long digestive tracts of these cud-chewing animals allows this WEAK DRUG to stay in their system longer. Whereas, with dogs (who have very short digestive tracts that process food much more rapidly by comparison), the weak fenbendazole medicine is in-and-out of them too with just one dose to do anything.
This is why you have to give so much Safeguard (so often, and so many days in a row) to a dog ... because it is a VERY WEAK DRUG ... and giving a huge dose to you dogs, now twice daily, and repeating it every 12 hours, for 3 days in a row, is the only way to keep this weak medicine in your dogs long enough to alow it to kill the worms.
Other drugs, like pyrantel, are much stronger drugs, that you can give in much smaller dosages, just once, and it will do the job.
The only real value Safeguard has is that it gets whipworms, but there are other drugs that get them too. Safeguard, when used correctly, is one of the most expensive, and THE most wasteful, time-consuming wormer you can possibly use.
For this reason, I personally almost never use it, because there are stronger, less-expensive, less time-consuming choices out there.
Jack
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