Taneniasis was diagnosed by demonstration of the characteristic Taenia eggs in the stool of 0.74% pet dogs
(Table 1) and all the investigated 11 breeds of pet dogs had infection with this tapeworm (Table 2). No seasonal
influence was observed on the prevalence of Taenia parasites in pet dogs. These observations support the earlier
reports on taeniasis of street dogs in Bangladesh (Karim et al., 1981).
These findings on the occurrence of heminthiasis in pet dogs support the earlier report on the incidence of
helminth parasites of zoonotic significance in street dogs in some districts of Bangladesh (Rahman, 1973) and
elsewhere (Anene, 1996; Menelaos and Smaragda, 2006; Katagiri and Oliveira-Sequeira, 2008).