Dog Risk Group | Description | EU ESCCAP recommended deworming frequency |
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A | Older than 6 months, lives indoors only or goes outdoors but has no direct contact with parks, sandpits, playgrounds, (faeces from) other dogs and cats, snails and slugs, raw meat or prey | 1–2 times per year |
B | Older than 6 months, goes outdoors and has direct contact with parks, sandpits, playgrounds, and (faeces from) other dogs and cats; but does not eat prey animals and/or snails and slugs and/or goes outdoors to hunt and does not eat raw meat | 4 times per year |
C | Older than 6 months, goes outdoors and has direct contact with parks, sandpits, playgrounds, and (faeces from) other dogs and cats and eats prey animals and/or snails and slugs and/or goes outdoors to hunt and eats raw meat | > 4 times per year |
D | Is less than 6 month-old; or lives in a fox tapeworm (Echinococcus multilocularis) endemic area; or eats prey animals and/or goes outdoors to hunt; or lives indoors, eats raw meat and lives with children/elderly | Monthly |