In cats often infest a dog, cat and human fleas.
Adult insects wingless, the body is strongly compressed laterally, strong legs, long, with numerous spines. Mouthparts adapted for piercing skin and bloodsucking. The body length is 2-4 mm flea.
Fleas - temporary parasites. Females lay their fleas are very small oval eggs whitish-yellow, dropping them on the mat, the ground floor. After 1-2 weeks the eggs into larvae that are worm-like body. The larvae feed on organic matter and uneaten food. During the week, they pupate in a cocoon, and after 2 weeks from the pupa leaves an adult individual, leading a parasitic way of life. The adult flea, and the male and female, feed exclusively on blood, sucking on a daily basis the amount of blood in 20 times its own weight. Fleas live about a year, but capable of prolonged starvation up to 18 months.
Flea bites are painful, causing severe itching and skin inflammation. Animals are scratching their paws itchy areas of the body, causing himself with scratches and abrasions. Life becomes a constant cat flour.
Fleas can easily discover the body of cats, but you must remember that only 10% of fleas live on animals, others - in their surroundings. Therefore, the cat should be put on a white mat and carefully combed. In this case an animal found small black-brown dots - it's dried up and dumps undigested blood.
To destroy the fleas on the animal body is used insecticides in the form of drops, shampoos, sprays, emulsions. When choosing a product take into account the duration of its action and toxicity. The action of an insecticide depends not only on its shape and quality, but also on the thoroughness of the application on the skin the animal.
In order to fight fleas is necessary to create conditions unfavorable to their development. For this accommodation, recreation and games, scratching posts regularly cleaned, trash removed, change bedding in the filler, washed, scalded with boiling water and treated with insecticide.
For preventive use different antiparasitic accessories, impregnated with insecticide.
