During the summer period of a flea are frequent guests even at domestic cats who cause many problems. Many owners do not even guess that in a nice fur coat of their favourite there live these parasites. But regular survey of an animal and knowledge of symptoms of infection with fleas helps to find them easily.
How to define that at a cat of a flea?
The cat's flea is a wingless insect who has a little body strongly flattened on each side. But she is very bright. Even if you will manage to see her, you will not manage to consider.
To understand that the cat suffers from fleas, it is not necessary to see this insect on a body of an animal. It is possible to determine by behavior of a cat at once that she is tormented by fleas. It begins to scratch. Over time fleas breed, and the cat scratches more and stronger, tearing apart skin to wounds. The animal also bites itself, seeking to catch teeth a flea.
The itch is a sign not only existence of fleas therefore examine an animal. If on a body there are red dots - it is traces of stings of parasites, and black grains on wool are their excrement. Having made sure that at a cat of a flea, immediately begin fight against them. Fleas very quickly breed. One female of a flea postpones until 300 eggs a day.
What are fleas dangerous by?
If not to begin timely fight against fleas, their quantity can increase up to 200 individuals on one cat. You can present what tortures will be experienced by an animal. Stings of fleas often cause allergic dermatitis as a result of which wool drops out and the cat can go bald. Larvae of fleas eat eggs of worms therefore are carriers of worms. Especially badly kittens transfer invasion of fleas. At them even anemia can develop. And if there is too much parasites, then the kitten can die.
What to do if found fleas?
It is necessary to struggle with fleas special means – insecticides which have to be picked up taking into account breed of a cat, her age, weight. It is also necessary to take into account whether there are in the house children and other animals. First of all, fleas need to be destroyed on an animal. If it is a pregnant cat or a kitten on whom there live many fleas, then it is better to show them to the veterinarian that he picked up safe medicine for these cases. Then surely process places where the cat lives: laying, carpets, sofas, chairs. And it is even better, to process all territory of the dwelling. If the cat does not go outside, it does not mean that fleas do not threaten her. You can bring this wrecker on clothes or footwear. Or the flea can just jump to the apartment from an entrance. Therefore any cat needs to carry out systematic prevention. For this purpose in advance process an animal means which interfere with appearance of fleas.