It may surprise people to know that spot-on cat flea treatments used in the home in the ordinary way can poison aquatic life in rivers and w...

The news media calls this a 'strange addiction' and it describes a woman uploading videos to Instagram of herself licking her cat li...

In short, kittens cannot be born with fleas but they can get them from their bedding or their mother very quickly. For me this means that an...

Flea bite on person. Photo: FCG/Shutterstock No, cat fleas can't live on humans because there is not enough hair to protect them. They d...

The video explains it all but I will add a few words. Before I do, I'd like to admit to a deliberate error in the video. If you can disc...

This is one thing that all cat owners should do daily to make their cat happy. It's uncomplicated, it doesn't cost any money and it ...

It takes 24 hours underwater to drown a flea! This is an interesting question and a pertinent one because cat owners sometimes like to kill ...

Adult fleas live for between one and two weeks in favourable conditions. The flea needs a host on which to feed continuously and they prefer...

No, cat fleas are a different species of ectoparasite to dog fleas but they act very similarly. The dog flea's scientific name is: Cten...

The cat flea is part of the tapeworm life-cycle. When a cat ingests a flea while grooming, he might also ingest a tapeworm egg which is insi...

Can you overdose a cat on flea medication? Yes, is the short answer. Flea meds are poisonous. We are told to handle them with care yet we pu...

by Elisa Black-Taylor (USA) Santa Ana, located in Orange County, California, is experiencing a typhus outbreak and the feral cats in the...

ANSWER: No. I can see the frustration and why there is a desire to shave a cat to get rid of fleas as they lurk in that dense fur and cause ...

I'll tell you how cats get tapeworms. It is a cycle as shown in the image below. Tapeworms are the most common internal parasite in adul...

Yes, cat fleas can and do bite humans. My cats are indoor/outdoor cats. I flea comb them regularly. Sometimes a flea will jump off the flea ...

Beware  of cat flea treatments. Some time ago a cat caretaker  asked for advice about her sick cats . It transpired, as far as I could tell...

Something gross - Cat and Dog Parasite Pictures. You can't have pictures of cats without pictures of the parasites that feed on them. T...