Topic: The dog has fleas

[mishca09]

He was full of fleas. Not sure where he got them from . I should have been on high a alert when he started to clean his privates. He never does that.

I gave him a warm bath eith his oatmeal shampoo. Will get a flea shampoo tomorrow and I'm going trimm his hair back.

[goldshirt*9]

Oooooooooooooooo at least you wont catch them

[mishca09]

I won't?

[goldshirt*9]

I won't?

no apparently not transferable

[mishca09]

Oh goody. I've bathed him a bunch. Most are gone.

[6pairsofshoes]

Fleas are horrible and they'll eat anything that has blood, people, rabbits, dogs, cats, etc.  What's more, they can live for months without a blood meal.  Look them up.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flea

I moved into an apartment that was infested.  It was awful. They'd come out at night and bite me.  We had to call an exterminator.  Apparently the woman who had lived there before had owned a dog.

[mishca09]

Uggggh😕

[smokester]

I moved into an apartment that was infested.  It was awful. They'd come out at night and bite me.  We had to call an exterminator.  Apparently the woman who had lived there before had owned a dog.

Dog fleas can't survive on human blood. Sort of like me and alcopop.

[mishca09]

Are dog fleas transferable to cats?

[6pairsofshoes]

There are various types of fleas.  I don't know if I was a snack or a meal for the ones who bit me, or if I was nourishing them enough, but I had the bites to prove that they at least thought me worth a nip.

I'd expect that dog fleas also infest cats.  They're pretty nasty little animals and are both durable as well as effective carriers of disease.  Here's a little info sheet from the dept of Entomology at the Ag school at Penn State.
http://ento.psu.edu/extension/factsheets/fleas