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Offline mishca09

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The dog has fleas
« on: November 10, 2017, 12:04:01 AM »
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.

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Re: The dog has fleas
« Reply #1 on: November 10, 2017, 12:53:46 AM »
Oooooooooooooooo at least you wont catch them

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Re: The dog has fleas
« Reply #2 on: November 10, 2017, 05:01:24 PM »
I won't?

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Re: The dog has fleas
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2017, 12:00:23 AM »
I won't?
no apparently not transferable

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Re: The dog has fleas
« Reply #4 on: November 11, 2017, 02:10:04 PM »
Oh goody. I've bathed him a bunch. Most are gone.

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Re: The dog has fleas
« Reply #5 on: November 11, 2017, 10:22:14 PM »
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.

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Re: The dog has fleas
« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2017, 05:55:58 AM »
Uggggh😕

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Re: The dog has fleas
« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2017, 10:38:48 AM »

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.
Don't put off until tomorrow, what you can put off until the day after.

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Re: The dog has fleas
« Reply #8 on: November 12, 2017, 06:48:01 PM »
Are dog fleas transferable to cats?

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Re: The dog has fleas
« Reply #9 on: November 12, 2017, 10:16:20 PM »
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