Parasites

Question 1

What are the visual signs of fleas?

Answer 1

• Flea dirt
• sore red patches of skin and sometimes hair loss
• actual fleas
• excessive scratching or chewing

Question 2

What do you do if you spot fleas?

Answer 2

• tell the owner
• assess dog for matting, they may need to be clipped off
• assess severity
• did owner use flea treatment recently

Question 3

What are the 4 stages of flea life cycle?

Answer 3

An adult can lay hundreds of eggs in a few days, these eggs fall off the dog in into soft furnishings. The larva hatch and eat faeces of adult fleas before spinning a cocoon. The pupa can stay in this cocoon for up to a year

Question 4

What is a tick?

Answer 4

A zoonotic parasite that goes onto a host to feed and falls off once full. They can transmit lymes disease in the uk

Question 5

What are the 4 life stages of a tick?

Answer 5

• egg
• six legged larva
• eight legged nymph
• adult tick