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I received a "purrraise" notification from this 8-year-old post. In case others are searching and finding this post, I can confirm -- this was what in retrospect was an obvious case of fleas. Bad ones! It took 3 months of borax on wood floors, flea baths, and a reluctant flea bomb to get them...

After a week's separation and typical introductory exercises, I recently introduced a new cat to my seven-year-old male cat and it is not going well. The older cat, Smoochy, is a large and lazy orange tabby who in another living situation, had been a beta male who made friends easily with a...

Sounds a lot like this case. Seems so obvious once you know what that stuff is...

Thank you all. Sounds like fleas...just not the kind I've seen before. This also explains the light blood that appeared when i went to wash off the flea dirt. I will definitely be requesting the least toxic treatment and searching through the board for suggestions!

A week ago, I adopted a cat from a rescue/foster where he lived with four well cared for cats. He had been to the vet on 8/1 and his report stated they did not find fleas. However, I've noticed he always seems to have small bits of a black, somewhat sticking substance on the fur between his...