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Flea Mystery
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A friend of mine has an indoor only cat who has got fleas and now a tic.
It's all a bit of a mystery as he is a proper pampered house (well, flat) cat, doesn't go out at all and is in a modern apartment building.
Cat is being treated, as is she and the flat.
Does anyone have any idea where the fleas or tics could be coming from as my friend is baffled as to the source!
It's all a bit of a mystery as he is a proper pampered house (well, flat) cat, doesn't go out at all and is in a modern apartment building.
Cat is being treated, as is she and the flat.
Does anyone have any idea where the fleas or tics could be coming from as my friend is baffled as to the source!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I will suggest all that to her, thank you all. I've not been to this flat so no transfer from me or my two catfinks.
I used to live in a flat in a different part of where she lives now (a number of different developments, blocks of flats and houses) and had a problem with getting bitten although a while after I had lost my cat I had then. I did wonder if there was a link with rats being around (redeveloped quays site with quite a few restaurants and such) as I'd seen quite a few bouncing about, especially as I was quite near one of the hotels. I was a lot lower down though as had a large ground floor flat with a cat flap.
I used to live in a flat in a different part of where she lives now (a number of different developments, blocks of flats and houses) and had a problem with getting bitten although a while after I had lost my cat I had then. I did wonder if there was a link with rats being around (redeveloped quays site with quite a few restaurants and such) as I'd seen quite a few bouncing about, especially as I was quite near one of the hotels. I was a lot lower down though as had a large ground floor flat with a cat flap.
You don't say how long she has had the cat.
A further possibility is that the feline associate was hosting parasites when your friend first got the cat. The level of infestation could have been very low and so nobody noticed. If recent cinditions have been favourable to parasite regeneration, then the low-level infestation could now have become a noticeable plague
A further possibility is that the feline associate was hosting parasites when your friend first got the cat. The level of infestation could have been very low and so nobody noticed. If recent cinditions have been favourable to parasite regeneration, then the low-level infestation could now have become a noticeable plague
I found this gross website - it says the eggs and larvae can lay dormant for weeks or months sometimes... so they may have been there from a previous tenant...
or apparently they hitchhike!!
http://www.myhealthyc.../flea-life-cycle.html
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or apparently they hitchhike!!
http://www.myhealthyc.../flea-life-cycle.html
ewwwwww