Did the Fleas hitch a ride?

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Mike - 10 Oct 2003 05:49 GMT

I recently babysat for some friends for a week and their house was
infested with fleas. I found several fleas on myself while I was
there, I had several flea bites and their cats were terribly infested
with them. Everyday I would go home for a couple hours and when I
finally came home at the end of the week, my cats had fleas. My cats
stay indoors and they did have fleas a few months ago but I haven't
seen any in months (I use Frontline and I comb the cats everyday with
a flea comb) until I came back from my friends house. How likely is it
that I brought fleas home from my friend's house?

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Karen - 10 Oct 2003 06:16 GMT

> I recently babysat for some friends for a week and their house was
> infested with fleas. I found several fleas on myself while I was
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> a flea comb) until I came back from my friends house. How likely is it
> that I brought fleas home from my friend's house?

Probably pretty possible. Give them a gift of some Frontline.

Karen

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Yngver - 10 Oct 2003 15:44 GMT

: littleboyblu87@yahoo.com (Mike) wrote:

>I
>finally came home at the end of the week, my cats had fleas. My cats
>stay indoors and they did have fleas a few months ago but I haven't
>seen any in months (I use Frontline and I comb the cats everyday with
>a flea comb) until I came back from my friends house. How likely is it
>that I brought fleas home from my friend's house?

Pretty likely. Cat fleas prefer cats to humans, but they are willing enough to
hitch a ride.

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