I'm told that a small amount of tobacco fed to him will be safe and kill all the worms how much is safe

NO. Giving a dog tobacco, especially one this young will make it sick, if not kill it.

Your puppy is most likely due for its shots. You should take it to the vet the next day they are open and get a checkup and PROPER dewormer.

One duty of owning a dog is to get it properly treated at the VET. If you are not willing to take your dog to the vet when needed you have no business owning a dog.

Nicotene is toxic to dogs, as are many other things people suggest as "home remedies"
You should NEVER give anything to your pet without consulting a VET.
Quite simply the consequences could be fatal.
A good broad spectrum dewormer from your Veterinarian is the safest option here.

Giving your dog tobacco for a de-worm is an old-time... very unnecessary form of deworming a dog.

How do you even know your puppy as worms? Did you physically see them? Did your puppy throw up and did you see a worm? Or did you see small, rice-like worms moving around on his poop?

You can always go to Petsmart/Petco or any other type of pet store and purchase a puppy wormer. EXCEL and Safegaurd are good brands... If you saw a worm.. look it up online and see what it looked like the most.. was it a roundworm or a tapeworm?. It does matter on the type of worm, because some wormers do not kill tapeworms..

If you feel uncomfortable to do it yourself, then I would suggest to wait until the vet is open for help.

Yes, tobacco USED to be thought of as a wormer for dogs, but you are getting old, out of date advice. Enough tobacco (nicotine) to kill worms often did the dog in as well. Nicotine is a powerful nerve stimulant and sets off all sorts of undesirable, uncontrolled reactions in an animal's system, from blood pressure problems to heart irregularities, to digestive upsets (the list goes on... and on... ). At one time, gunpowder was thought to be a wormer, but that was not much different than tobacco.

Unless you have had your dog's BM tested for worms, and the worms (if any) identified, you are just playing at taking good care of your dog. There are too many different types of worms to hope to get them all with one medicine, but then again, there may only be one or two types what can be treated successfully with a less expensive wormer. Or, your pet may not even have worms and should be examined for something else if you are thinking it to have something wrong with it.

Please, take a sample of his BM to the vet for a fecal exam before doing anything else.

Is there any reason you don't want to use regular worming tablets?

Puppies should be wormed every 2 weeks from the time they are 2 weeks old... there is no need to use crazy remedies, just tablets for puppies are fine.

I'm reluctant to suggest this for a couple reasons. First, just what are 'regular' wormers? Even puppy wormers have both old and modern formulations. Without any distinctions, price us usually the guide and the cheapest ones are seldom the best, or even much better than tobacco.

Next, sounds like the owner is seeing worms, so what kind of worms? You can only see 2 types of worms, and it is too young to have tapes. So, what other worms may be present besides roundworms? Too much is being left to my imagination, for comfort. I like to know what I'm dealing with. A clinic ought to be able to run a fecal without having a full blown office visit and exam. If they're afraid of losing a few bucks on meds, then the pet's health isn't paramount, or so it seems to me.

Also, most 'rule of thumb' guidelines also depend on whose thumb is being used. While your schedule may be correct for your situation, it may not fit all.

I'm learning that some people just don't have the money to pay for a $40 some dollar office visit, an exam and then the price of a $10 shot that is marked up by $30 bucks.. So if you can guide a person to do the right thing by purchasing a proper wormer, go for it.. However, if the worms continue to accumulate, then there is no choice but to go to the vet. I don't see any difference in the Pyrantel Pomoate that the vet gives vs what you buy at petsmart.. or even what you can get in using the paste horse wormer. I've had better luck with wormer using horse paste then using any type of wormer that is marked for dogs. So if it comes down to money vs the dogs health.. suggest something that is cheap and works.. I would suggest the safegaurd horse wormer paste that you can get from walmart. Its pyrantel pomoate and it works on a broadspectrum of worms... you also cannot OD the dog.. which, in my book, is a plus.

You can get worming pills and hide them in meat the best thing to do with him is to give him hlf a pill a day for 2 days and they should be gone hope I helped.

No, you didn't. Did you read the posts ahead of yours about not diagnosing what is "wrong" with the dog, not medicating the dog without a Vet?

You don't know the size of the dog, it's only 7 weeks old, and you are recommending an over-the-counter wormer?

I have read some of your other advice - how old are you?