Recently a friends (we'll call them Kevin) cat had 4 kittens. I'm taking one in and Kevin was able to find someone wanting to take in another. This is Kevin's friend, a girl we'll call Robin. Yesterday we were talking about the mother and the babies, talking about vet visits, things like that. We're trying to find people who are interested in taking the other 2 babies. I then think of Kevin's other 2 friends that are a couple and I know one of them absolutely LOVES cats so I suggest them. Kevin then tells me they might already have to many pets (2 dogs, a snake and a fish tank) so I say oh that sucks.
However he then lets me know that the girl Robin who is taking one of the babies is their roommate and that there house is flea infested!!! Has been since last year! Apparently when Robin moved in with them she had a rabbit, the rabbit had fleas, fleas got onto the dogs and you know what fleas do, multiple and they just never did a thing about it! Kevin says he refuses to even step foot in their place because when he does he gets eaten up and it's absolutely disgusting in there! He explains their life style (expensive) and that's probably why they don't do anything health wise for the animals other than food and simple things. It's on the dogs, in the house, everywhere. I asked did she still have the rabbit and has she even taken that to the vet, did she actually take care of it or just liked looking at it? He said he didn't know but the rabbit had died... So basically for a year (or longer) they've had fleas just raising a community, building relationships and an economy in the home.
I told Kevin he couldn't be really considering giving this girl one of the kittens. Fleas are not something to brush off the animals could get sick/be miserable etc. I told him at least make them handle their flea infestation first but he kinda shrugged me off! I figured if I ever stepped foot in their place (which Im considering) and it's still just as bad as he says could I call animal control? Or is a flea infestation causing poor health not something they look into? Maybe I'm just overstepping (if I am ya'll can let me know too) but shit like that just makes my blood boil. TAKE CARE OF YOUR ANIMALS.
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from Pets https://www.reddit.com/r/Pets/comments/c708f5/is_a_flea_infestation_considered_animal_abuse/
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