While everyone else gets all riled up about tick season, the warm weather means another parasitic pest is upon us: fleas. The rising temperatures makes it more hospitable for eggs to hatch, and more ...

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Part of owning a feline is making sure your pet doesn’t have fleas and ticks. Unfortunately these critters are common in many regions of the country, and can infest both indoor and outdoor cats.

Scientists have catalogued over 2,000 flea species. The most common domestic flea is the cat flea or Ctenocephalides felis. Female cat fleas can lay up to 20–50 eggs per day, averaging roughly one to ...

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The most prevalent flea in the U.S. is the cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis). It infests cats, dogs and wild animals. The complete life cycle takes three to five weeks. A female flea lays 24 to 48 eggs ...

A vet has issued a warning to all cat and dog owners to keep an eye out for sings their pets may have fleas, with infestations at this time of year “more common than many people realise”. Flea bites ...

If you're a pet parent, you've probably asked yourself, "How do cats get fleas?" at least once – especially if your cat is kept indoors and you're wondering how they got there in the first place.