Flick Off Fleas!
Today's episode tackles dreaded ectoparasites. Common culprits being fleas and ticks. What are they are and how can we fight them? We read hilarious reviews about flea products and call out some common myths. Stay tuned for the AI generated song Flea Flicking created by Suno.com if you want a copy of this song at no charge email us! nessieandkat@petliferadio.com
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Nessie: We did, let's talk about pets.
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Kat: Baby, baby.
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Nessie: This is the podcast where we talk about pets, and things you need to know about them.
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Nessie: And then little palate cleansers about reviews and products, and people that probably didn't think before they typed things, and it's fine.
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Nessie: Everything's fine.
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Nessie: Everybody, this is Kat.
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Nessie: Hi, I'm Kat.
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Kat: Oh, that's Danny.
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Nessie: That's Danny.
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Nessie: That's my great dane.
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Kat: She doesn't want to be forgotten.
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Nessie: Yeah, she's involved.
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Nessie: And then this is Nessie.
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Nessie: We are vet techs that work in veterinary medicine, obviously, because we're vet techs.
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Kat: That's right.
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Nessie: And we know things, and we're gonna make you know things because it's important.
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Kat: So, yeah.
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Kat: But today is about ticks and fleas.
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Nessie: Ticks and fleas.
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Kat: And fleas and ticks, if you will.
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Kat: And actually, that may not be a tick on your dog's belly.
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Kat: That may be a nipple.
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Nessie: It might be.
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Nessie: Make sure before you start picking at it.
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Nessie: Stopping at a guy one time.
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Nessie: He's like, yeah, boy dogs don't have nipples.
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Nessie: So that can't be a nipple.
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Nessie: And I'm like, sir, do human men have nipples?
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Kat: Yes.
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Nessie: Those are nipples.
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Kat: Your dog has nipples, too.
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Nessie: Your male dog has nipples, friends.
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Nessie: So just make sure one time this guy brought his dog in, he's like, this is a tick.
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Nessie: And he started picking at it, and it was bleeding.
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Nessie: And it turns out it was just a skin tag.
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Kat: It may just be a skin tag.
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Nessie: It may be, consult your vet.
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Kat: Consult your vet if you are unsure.
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Kat: Is this a nipple?
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Kat: Or we have heard this a lot, to be fair.
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Kat: Yeah.
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Nessie: It's okay.
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Nessie: But we're going to talk about actual fleas and tits, not nipples today.
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Kat: Oh, cool, cool, cool.
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Kat: I signed up for the wrong podcast today.
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Nessie: Yeah.
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Nessie: I thought I had to learn about middle dog nipples.
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Kat: I know.
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Nessie: This got weird real quick.
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Kat: I had an ear for it.
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Nessie: So, I like to start off the podcast with the funny reviews before we start, because those are my favorite.
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Nessie: So, maybe let's start with one of those.
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Kat: Okay, cool.
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Kat: I can do this.
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Kat: So, this one is actually from Etsy, and it is a product called Dog Flea and Tick Collar, made with all-natural plant-based oils, no chemicals, safe for pets, last eight months, waterproof, two collars per can.
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Nessie: This is the long title thing, I guess.
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Nessie: Yes, they put every word associated with this product.
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Kat: And so, you know, this two collars per can is $14.95.
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Kat: Okay.
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Nessie: Okay.
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Nessie: What is this deal?
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Kat: It is a steal.
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Nessie: Freaking steal.
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Kat: I have a three-star review here from Wanda.
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Kat: It's not Wanda, I'm just saying Wanda.
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Nessie: Okay, Wanda.
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Nessie: Juanita.
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Kat: Oh.
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Kat: Okay.
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Kat: We can dine on the streets.
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Kat: Um, first of all, I want to point out that this review, this three-star review starts with whilst, and this is the first time I've ever seen that word spelled out or used, like, seriously ever.
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Kat: And so, it caught me off guard, and I kind of want to meet Wanda and see what she's about.
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Nessie: But anyway, she sounds fancy.
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Kat: Wanda says, Whilst the flea callers seemed to do the job, and I accidentally ordered too many of them, I contacted the shop owners and was only allowed to return two canisters.
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Kat: I accidentally spent over a hundred dollars.
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Kat: I did pay forward to the neighbors for their dogs.
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Kat: I am not fully satisfied.
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Kat: And even better, the shop owner responded to Wanda, because apparently she didn't tell the whole story.
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Kat: Hello, Wanda, and thank you for your comment.
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Kat: She's very gracious to thank her for this, even though it was three.
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Nessie: I feel like it was sarcastic.
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Kat: Oh.
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Kat: Remember that half your order was refunded, and I didn't require you to send back any product, leaving you with four canisters of collars, but only paying for two.
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Kat: And that's it.
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Kat: That's it.
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Kat: And here's my thing, how do you accidentally spend a hundred dollars?
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Nessie: Did she just like one at order two, and then kept clicking, and was like, wow, I'll save a half a minute.
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Kat: But did her internet freeze while she was putting like the add button, and then it just like added until she got to a hundred dollars worth of flea collars?
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Nessie: She has dial-up, and...
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Kat: This is our impression of what dial-up sounds like.
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Nessie: My grandpa, when I was a kid, had dial-up.
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Nessie: And so when you get on the internet, I was like...
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Kat: I am like, you said my grandpa had dial-up?
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Kat: Because when I was in school, I had dial-up.
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Kat: Like I was...
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Kat: So I'm not your grandpa, but I grew up with dial-up.
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Kat: Yeah.
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Kat: Yeah, my bad girl, who ageing myself out here.
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Kat: It's okay.
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Kat: You have to thank me for being one of the first people to practice internet for you younger generation.
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Nessie: Well, I'm just proud that I remember dial-up.
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Nessie: Like I feel like that count as for something.
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Nessie: I also remember when I was a kid, my grandpa, he was like, come look at this screen.
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Nessie: And so I went downstairs and they had a basement, and basements are already scary, so I'm gonna have a little wish.
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Nessie: And he's like, look for the little ghost on the screen.
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Nessie: So I got real close looking for the little ghost.
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Nessie: And then it jumped at me and I was like seven, and I was like, I have a lot of drama.
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Kat: I have to fuck with the first door.
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Kat: So I also want to shout out to Wanda for paying forward all the flea collars that she didn't need.
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Nessie: Yeah, at least she put them to good use, you know?
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Nessie: Like, everybody got a flea collar.
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Nessie: I wonder if they were a good flea collar, though.
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Kat: I don't know how much I trust a plant-based oil flea collar.
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Nessie: Jew collars and very long name, essential oils, rosemary, I don't know.
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Nessie: So I mean, you know, Wanda, you got your money partially back, and you got free stuff, and you got to give it away to people.
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Kat: So I feel like you won big, and the three stars wasn't fair.
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Nessie: Maybe be a little bit more appreciative.
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Nessie: You paid it forward, but then you paid it backwards when you made that.
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Nessie: So, all right.
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Nessie: So, fleas.
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Nessie: Fleas are one of the most common parasites in animals.
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Nessie: They cause itching, hair loss.
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Nessie: They can cause skin infections because we're like biting and chewing at the areas.
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Nessie: And that, they eat the hair of dog's blood, so that's not cool either.
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Nessie: They love warm temperatures with moderate humidity.
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Kat: So, then they were able to sound perfect, actually.
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Nessie: Yeah, yeah, and that means that your house is perfect.
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Nessie: Like the carpet in your house and things like that.
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Nessie: It's a perfect place for them to, you know, white picket fence it.
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Kat: So, oh, this is a nice description, you know.
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Nessie: They're like, we love this.
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Kat: You're not your blind.
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Kat: Me, they're like, you're not your blind.
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Nessie: Get her mind.
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Kat: Let's go for a blood meal.
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Nessie: And we want to just walk down the beach together.
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Nessie: But yeah, so fleas, they have a three week life cycle.
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Nessie: They go from egg to larva to pupa, and then adult.
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Nessie: Adult fleas live on the animals, while the other stages live in the environment.
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Nessie: Gross, gross.
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Nessie: So a female flea can lay 40 eggs a day.
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Kat: Otter will be animal busy.
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Kat: She be busy.
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Nessie: Homegirl be busy.
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Nessie: The adult fleas lay eggs on dogs, and then they roll off of the dog, and they land in the environment, and they hang out there until the larva hatch, and then they see dark and warm environments, such as carpet.
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Nessie: And then, they can form a cocoon, and they become pupa.
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Nessie: Pupa.
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Nessie: Pupa.
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Kat: They become pupa.
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Nessie: They can remain in the stage for months, and you can't kill them on insecticides, or freezing, or drying, so they're pretty indestructible, unfortunately.
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Nessie: When a potential host is nearby, they come out of their cocoon, because they can sense vibrations, and warmth, and carbon dioxide, which is what we exhale when we breathe.
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Kat: I catch a good vibration.
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Kat: Exactly.
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Nessie: So then they're like, oh, I'm gonna eat that, and then they jump on your dog, and that's where it starts, and that's where bad things start.
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Kat: Yeah.
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Nessie: Yeah.
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Nessie: Let's do a review.
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Kat: Got you.
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Kat: This one is for On Guard Plus, Flea Antics Spot Treatment for Cats Over 1.5 Pounds.
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Kat: One Star by Petunia.
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Kat: Not September working is the name.
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Kat: I put it 48 hours ago on my cat, and they're still fleas.
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Kat: It says on the package, they're no expiration date.
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Kat: Why something is wrong with that stuff?
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Kat: I have to ask my virginity in what to do.
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Kat: There's no need for me to order any more of the flea stuff online.
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Kat: My cats don't go outside.
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Kat: Petunia, let's talk.
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Nessie: But we had the discussion about things not going outside.
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Kat: Just because your cats don't go outside doesn't mean the fleas can't get inside.
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Kat: And also, I have to ask my virginity in what to do.
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Kat: I have a question about this.
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Kat: Now you'll be certain.
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Kat: Right.
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Kat: Who is the virginity that tells her what to do?
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Kat: Like, is this a friend of hers?
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Kat: Is this what she calls her inner ego?
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Kat: Like, I do want to know more because maybe this is a friend that I can get behind.
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Nessie: I mean, if they're telling her not to put flea stuff on her pet because they're indoor only, maybe we have concern.
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Kat: Okay.
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Kat: So maybe we don't want virginity to be our friend.
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Kat: Yeah.
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Nessie: Like, I'm not going to say it's not less likely that your pet will get fleas, but they still can get fleas.
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Kat: They ride in on your shoe.
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Nessie: Do you have other dogs?
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Nessie: Do your dogs come in with fleas, and then your cat gets fleas, and it's just a crusty situation.
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Nessie: Crusty situation.
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Kat: Yeah.
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Nessie: We don't like crusty men.
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Kat: We don't.
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Kat: Also, these sentences are chaotic to me.
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Kat: It says on the package, period, there's no expiration date, period.
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Kat: Why something is wrong with that stuff, period.
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Kat: What's happening?
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Kat: And so, please help me, because this makes my head hurt slightly, and I don't know if maybe there's something wrong with me at this moment.
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Kat: I'm sorry.
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Kat: I was like, I was a lot wrong with you.
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Kat: Did I break your brain, or do you like?
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Nessie: I feel like he was like, or she, Petunia, whatever.
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Kat: Petunia is a female.
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Nessie: She was like, I want this review not to be long, so I'm going to use less words.
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Kat: Why are they so big?
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Kat: We're hitting bullet points.
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Nessie: Yeah, we're just doing little bullet points at this point.
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Kat: But my summary for this is, even though your cat doesn't go outside, you will still need flea prevention, because they can still come inside.
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Nessie: Yeah, and then we'll talk about this, but if they get fleas, they might get tapeworms, and then you have a whole other thing, and then you have to give nine pills a day.
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Kat: No, we're back to the nine pills a day.
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Nessie: Do you want to give your cat nine pills a day?
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Kat: No, you don't.
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Kat: And maybe you should just not use On Guard, because it sounds like that was your problem to begin with.
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Kat: There's other brands.
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Nessie: He needed a scope on it.
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Nessie: That's why.
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Nessie: Like that one of your side.
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Kat: Speaking of crust, that way it is bright.
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Kat: Please tell me about crusty.
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Nessie: It's breaking all crusty.
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Nessie: Your animal can get severe allergies to fleas called flea allergy dermatitis, which can cause some crusty.
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Nessie: Oh, yeah, because of the bite and they scratch and they're itchy, which is called paritis, your booty crusty, your booty crusty.
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Nessie: Um, it's a sign that your dog may have fleas.
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Nessie: And when a flea bites your dog or cat, they inject saliva under the skin.
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Kat: Um, my dog doesn't have fleas.
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Kat: I don't see them on them.
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Nessie: See, here's the thing.
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Nessie: When your pet feels the flea biting them, they're like, Ouch, that's itchy.
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Nessie: So they turn around and they bite at it, and then they end up eating it.
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Nessie: So you can see fleas on your pet.
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Nessie: But if you're not seeing fleas, but they're having signs like the itching and the scratching, um, they bite at the tail base and in the inguinal areas, which is in between the legs.
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Kat: So how many fleas does it take before you see your dog biting?
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Nessie: Uh, one flea, I mean, is itchy.
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Nessie: And it can cause itching for up to two weeks, even after the flea is gone.
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Nessie: So if you just put prevention on them and prevent them from having fleas in the first place, then your pet will have big teeth.
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Kat: Um, if you ask Virginity, Virginity will allow you to use on guard.
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Nessie: Ask Virginity.
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Nessie: The problem with them biting and scratching is that it's itchy, and it's going to be itchy for a while.
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Nessie: And this can cause hot spots, which are like little bald spots with like, like it's like a wound, and it's itchy, and it can get infected, and then that's bad.
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Nessie: And then your pet's really uncomfortable and painful, you know.
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Nessie: So cats are a little bit more subtle with their flea allergy, and they can have hair loss, um, but a lot of times they'll have scabs and bumps around the neck and down the back and stuff, whereas dogs, they'll have like little bald spots and itchiness like at the tail base and stuff like that.
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Nessie: But, um, you can see evidence of fleas.
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Nessie: If you're not seeing the fleas, you can always check and look for flea dirt.
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Nessie: And flea dirt is basically flea poop, and it's partially unadjusted blood because they feed on your pet's blood.
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Nessie: And so if you take the flea dirt and you put it on like a paper towel and you wet it, it'll turn red because it's blood.
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Kat: So that's a pretty good indicator that it's flea dirt and not just dirt on your dog.
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Kat: Yeah, I mean, yeah.
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Nessie: And especially if you have like a white dog or a white cat, then you'll see it really well.
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Kat: This is for hearts, ultra guard, pro max, flea and take cat collar.
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Kat: Purple, two count.
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Nessie: Two count, you only get two.
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Nessie: It's two spots.
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Kat: You should only need two according to them.
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Kat: So, this is a one star review by Deena.
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Nessie: Deena.
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Kat: Welcome, Deena.
00:16:05.140 --> 00:16:06.180
Kat: Hi, Deena.
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Kat: Join Petunia.
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Kat: It's called Morse, Scratch and Sniff, which...
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Nessie: That's the name of her review?
00:16:13.240 --> 00:16:14.100
Kat: Yeah.
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Kat: Okay.
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Kat: I can't get past that, honestly, but we'll try, we'll try.
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Nessie: That's gross, but I digress.
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Kat: Man, when I tell you I tried this collar, and my cat went into a whole routine, I thought I was gonna have to take him into a mental health center for cats.
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Kat: He rolled over, played dead, plod up the carpet, and scratched ferociously at the collar.
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Kat: This went on every time we left the bedroom, or moved room to room.
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Kat: I had enough and took it off.
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Kat: My outdoor cat ran when I tried to collar him.
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Kat: You pay for what you get, and my cat has a brand new set of behaviors.
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Nessie: Listen, first of all, my first red flag.
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Kat: Point him out for me, point him out for me.
00:17:01.260 --> 00:17:05.440
Nessie: Do not put a collar on your outdoor cat.
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Nessie: Mm, because if it's not a breakaway, then if he's climbing up a tree and it gets stuck on a branch, you're gonna have a dead cat.
00:17:15.220 --> 00:17:17.520
Nessie: Don't put a flea collar on your outdoor cat.
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Nessie: Put a topical prevention or something.
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Kat: His cat clearly does not want to wear a collar.
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Nessie: Yeah.
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Kat: He'd rather go to the mental health center for Kat.
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Nessie: It should have got to end up at behavioral health center with some grippy cats on.
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Nessie: If he was so irritated by the collar, like how long do you think she waited before she took it off?
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Kat: Cause I don't know, because it said it went on every time we left the bedroom or moved room to room.
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Kat: So, unless they're constantly pacing back and forth, which they might, I don't know what they got going on in their house, I feel like it was on long enough that this cat was throwing in some acrobatics.
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Kat: Juan at the carpet and scratching ferociously at the collar.
00:18:04.760 --> 00:18:09.940
Nessie: I mean, have you ever tried to put a harness on a cat and then just kind of fall over and they're like, all right, I'm dead now.
00:18:09.940 --> 00:18:11.680
Kat: I shall never move again.
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Kat: I have a cat and I thought, I'll walk my cat.
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Kat: So I bought her a cat harness and a leash, and I put it on and she automatically was like, no.
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Kat: But I was like, we'll try it outside because maybe the outside would make her want to get up.
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Kat: So I took my cat outside on her new harness and leash and I put her down in the grass and she laid it in the grass.
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Kat: It was like, no.
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Kat: And so I was like, well, this failed.
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Kat: And I didn't try again, which is not the answer.
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Kat: You should keep trying and slowly get them acclimated.
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Kat: But honestly, I was like, you obviously hate the outside.
00:18:45.380 --> 00:18:46.440
Kat: I don't blame you.
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Kat: I like the inside too, because the air condition is there.
00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:51.380
Nessie: Yeah, but like you were like, it's not working inside.
00:18:51.380 --> 00:18:52.220
Nessie: Maybe go outside.
00:18:52.220 --> 00:18:54.820
Kat: That's not going to work outside any better than inside.
00:18:54.820 --> 00:18:56.700
Kat: In my mind, it was.
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Nessie: So I've seen cats in harnesses go outside and get out of the harness because they're all slinky and like, they just slink right out of it.
00:19:05.020 --> 00:19:10.780
Nessie: And so I don't trust harnesses on cats like at all because like they could be slinky.
00:19:11.360 --> 00:19:13.920
Nessie: No, they're slinky.
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Kat: Well, that was a good one.
00:19:16.140 --> 00:19:16.880
Nessie: I like that.
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Nessie: Applause, applause.
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Kat: Do you actually have one more for that exact same collar?
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Kat: You just want me to throw that in there?
00:19:22.360 --> 00:19:23.180
Kat: This one is short.
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Kat: It's also one star.
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Nessie: Toss it in.
00:19:26.200 --> 00:19:27.340
Kat: Don't waste your money.
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Kat: These colors are absolutely useless.
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Nessie: Colors?
00:19:31.660 --> 00:19:33.060
Nessie: What is the color going to do?
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Kat: I don't know, but maybe because in the description, it's called the purple to count.
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Kat: Maybe the color purple is useless against fleas.
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Nessie: Ha ha.
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Nessie: It's like, I'm not flea blind.
00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:47.440
Nessie: I'm red and green color blind.
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Nessie: I can see purple.
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Kat: Ah, fleas?
00:19:49.700 --> 00:19:57.160
Kat: Maybe the flea is not discouraged by the color purple, and he's like, that must mean there's a blood there.
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Kat: This is the one star view, and that was from Mary.
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Kat: And I feel like maybe Mary meant these colors are useless, but I want to lean more towards she just didn't like that the color purple didn't keep the fleas away, maybe.
00:20:10.240 --> 00:20:21.120
Nessie: Well, if you read the 20-word description of the title of it, you would know that it was purple, my dear, and it had rosemary in it.
00:20:21.500 --> 00:20:23.960
Nessie: But they all do for some reason.
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Kat: Rosemary, anything to do if you're trying to put a collar on?
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Nessie: Well, more applause.
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Nessie: Anyways, so back to more things.
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Nessie: Fleas are actually one of the hosts for the larvae of tapeworms, which is what I was saying earlier, an intestinal parasite in dogs and cats, which if you join us for our next podcast, we'll talk all about that, and you'll get to learn things about that.
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Nessie: But therefore, if your pet has fleas, it most likely also has tapeworms, because tapeworms live inside of the fleas, and then your dog or cat eats the flea, and then you got butt worms.
00:21:04.280 --> 00:21:20.340
Nessie: So really the goal of flea treatment is to interrupt the flea life cycle in the animal and in the environment, which may take a few months to completely manage because they live in the environment and the eggs are chilling, and then good vibrations happen.
00:21:20.340 --> 00:21:28.420
Nessie: So to get control of your environment, you need to wash all your bedding vacuum frequently, because this triggers the release of the pupa.
00:21:28.420 --> 00:21:29.580
Kat: Clean your house, pupa.
00:21:29.580 --> 00:21:30.180
Kat: Clean your house.
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Nessie: Follow by the use of a spray intended to kill adult fleas quickly and stop their reproduction.
00:21:37.260 --> 00:21:42.080
Nessie: So this is kind of a pain and a booty to get under control.
00:21:42.080 --> 00:21:45.020
Nessie: Remove leaf or brush from outside.
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Nessie: Consider a spray treatment in shaded areas under decks, flower beds, and you'll probably need multiple treatment to interrupt the cycles.
00:21:53.720 --> 00:21:56.740
Nessie: So you might need professionals to interrupt the cycles.
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Kat: To save a lot of time and heartache, I went straight to the professionals when I had a flea outbreak, because I remember as a kid, my dad tried to do it like the do it yourself kind of way, and we battled the problem for what seemed like forever.
00:22:15.920 --> 00:22:16.480
Nessie: Yeah.
00:22:16.480 --> 00:22:32.020
Kat: And so when I became an adult, making decisions for myself with my own pets, I decided to just call in the big guns right away, because I think that the money I would have spent trying to fight it on my own would have been wasted.
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Kat: Yeah.
00:22:33.260 --> 00:22:45.080
Nessie: Well, that is why just putting prevention on your animals is important, and I know we keep harping on prevention, but it's so much easier than going through all of this stuff.
00:22:45.080 --> 00:22:45.740
Kat: Like...
00:22:45.740 --> 00:22:50.340
Kat: Kat, you are only two shows in, and all you talk about is this prevention.
00:22:50.340 --> 00:22:52.820
Kat: You must work for these prevention companies.
00:22:52.820 --> 00:22:56.660
Nessie: No, it's just that if you could prevent it before, it happens, why wouldn't you do it?
00:22:56.660 --> 00:23:17.980
Nessie: Instead of having to spend all this money and all this time vacuuming and like, you know, getting bit by fleas and being itchy, and your dog getting bit by fleas, just give them the once a month, set a reminder in your phone, put flea tick heartworm prevention on your dog, and then you don't have to worry about any of this.
00:23:18.700 --> 00:23:25.900
Kat: And if you happen to come across these purple flea collars, since the fleas are not, they don't care about the color purple, they'll still come.
00:23:26.600 --> 00:23:27.060
Nessie: They're not gonna.
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Kat: Cut it up and put it in your vacuum, because I heard or saw somewhere that many people recommend that it helps kill the fleas inside the vacuum cleaner, so that you're not, because they don't just die because you vacuumed them up.
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Kat: They're alive in the vacuum.
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Nessie: Yeah, they're chilling.
00:23:42.040 --> 00:23:43.220
Kat: They're hanging out waiting.
00:23:43.220 --> 00:23:46.780
Kat: They're waiting for you to go to sleep, and they're gonna crawl out.
00:23:46.780 --> 00:23:49.220
Nessie: They hatch and they're like, where's my dog?
00:23:49.220 --> 00:23:51.620
Nessie: And then they're in a vacuum, and it's just internal.
00:23:51.640 --> 00:23:57.280
Kat: And even though they prefer a dog, if there's a nice, juicy leg there, they don't get that leg.
00:23:57.280 --> 00:23:58.520
Nessie: Don't go with that handball.
00:23:58.520 --> 00:23:59.800
Kat: Get that leg.
00:23:59.800 --> 00:24:01.840
Kat: Yeah, and I was talking about a person leg there.
00:24:01.840 --> 00:24:02.620
Kat: Yeah.
00:24:02.620 --> 00:24:11.000
Nessie: I mean, they will bite you, and it's itchy, but you're not the preferred host, so they're like, but still, you know, it's uncomfortable.
00:24:11.000 --> 00:24:15.080
Nessie: And then you'll be sitting up in your bed with a flashlight, so don't.
00:24:15.080 --> 00:24:16.000
Kat: Flashlight buddies!
00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:17.420
Kat: Flashlight buddies!
00:24:18.020 --> 00:24:20.120
Nessie: Yeah, so, prevention!
00:24:20.120 --> 00:24:21.380
Kat: Okay, okay.
00:24:21.380 --> 00:24:25.060
Kat: All right, so that's it for Fleas.
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Kat: This one is actually a book I came across called The Fleas Sneeze.
00:24:29.860 --> 00:24:30.860
Kat: Okay.
00:24:30.860 --> 00:24:33.280
Kat: And the name, I think, is just brilliant.
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Kat: And so I found a review, which then made me want to do a deep dive into the actual book.
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Kat: So the review is Three Stars by Savicky.
00:24:45.700 --> 00:24:47.320
Kat: I think it's Savicky.
00:24:47.320 --> 00:24:49.760
Nessie: Yeah, we're gonna go with a heck of a name.
00:24:49.760 --> 00:24:51.540
Nessie: You make it up there, friend.
00:24:51.540 --> 00:24:58.680
Kat: I am going to give some letters that I see in my eyeballs, and I let them come together in my imagination.
00:24:58.700 --> 00:25:01.440
Kat: One good eyeball and my half good eyeball.
00:25:01.440 --> 00:25:02.920
Kat: Let them do their thing.
00:25:02.920 --> 00:25:06.220
Kat: So this one is called Force Rhymes but Great Pictures.
00:25:06.220 --> 00:25:10.400
Kat: A funny little tale about a flea that creates an uproar in the barn.
00:25:10.400 --> 00:25:14.040
Kat: Younger children will really get into the repetitive text and illustrations.
00:25:14.720 --> 00:25:18.140
Kat: The story itself is funny enough, a little subtle.
00:25:18.140 --> 00:25:22.020
Kat: However, rhymes here are sometimes a little bizarre.
00:25:22.020 --> 00:25:28.020
Kat: It seems to me that the author couldn't think of something for a bat to do besides have his eyes turn blue.
00:25:28.020 --> 00:25:31.380
Kat: Then maybe the bat didn't need to be in the barn.
00:25:31.380 --> 00:25:37.240
Kat: That goes double for the frog, while other animals cry boo hoo or ew or duh moo moo.
00:25:39.160 --> 00:25:40.560
Kat: A little odd, sorry.
00:25:40.560 --> 00:25:42.640
Kat: What is the reaction of the frog?
00:25:42.640 --> 00:25:44.840
Kat: He is reminded of his old nephew.
00:25:44.840 --> 00:25:45.940
Kat: What?
00:25:45.940 --> 00:25:53.540
Kat: In any case, it's a cute enough story, and your toddler will care a lot less than you will about the textual oddities.
00:25:53.540 --> 00:25:59.360
Nessie: I guess my thing is like he was like the repetitive or the forced rhyme.
00:25:59.360 --> 00:26:03.160
Nessie: But the name of the book is The Flea That Sneezes?
00:26:03.300 --> 00:26:04.400
Kat: The Flea's Knees.
00:26:04.400 --> 00:26:06.600
Kat: Flea's, Flea's Knees.
00:26:06.600 --> 00:26:07.900
Kat: You're the Flea's Knees.
00:26:07.900 --> 00:26:08.860
Nessie: You're the Flea's Knees.
00:26:08.860 --> 00:26:11.240
Kat: The Flea's Knees.
00:26:11.240 --> 00:26:16.360
Nessie: Still, like, I feel like it's assumed based on the name, but it's gonna be forced rhyme.
00:26:16.360 --> 00:26:18.760
Kat: Also, it's a child's book, I assume.
00:26:18.760 --> 00:26:21.320
Kat: Does it have an age limit on them?
00:26:21.320 --> 00:26:25.380
Nessie: And the bat where his eyes turned blue, like, did he just suddenly get glaucoma?
00:26:28.560 --> 00:26:31.700
Kat: Oh, my God, your eyes are so pretty.
00:26:31.700 --> 00:26:34.040
Kat: Thanks, it's an illness.
00:26:34.040 --> 00:26:36.280
Nessie: Oh, my gosh, I have this story.
00:26:36.280 --> 00:26:42.000
Nessie: So there's this lady that came in, and she had this beautiful hat on, and I was like, girl, I love your hat.
00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:45.000
Nessie: And she's like, thanks, I have melanoma.
00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:48.980
Kat: No, I was like, oh, my God.
00:26:48.980 --> 00:26:53.120
Kat: It does remind me of the time that I told a lady that I loved her hair.
00:26:53.260 --> 00:26:57.500
Kat: It was like kind of orange and like an up-do kind of deal.
00:26:57.500 --> 00:27:00.720
Kat: And she was like, it's not my, it's a wig.
00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:03.000
Kat: I lost all my hair and cancer treatment.
00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:05.300
Kat: And I couldn't tell.
00:27:05.300 --> 00:27:15.440
Kat: It was a great wig in my opinion, you know, but really, well, I, we had a dad trombone here, which I did have one at some point.
00:27:15.780 --> 00:27:17.940
Kat: He would go, wah, wah.
00:27:17.940 --> 00:27:25.980
Nessie: She had one in her pocket when she came over the other day, and literally she was like, I think it's just like a tiny trombone.
00:27:25.980 --> 00:27:27.560
Nessie: Yeah, that just did the thing.
00:27:27.560 --> 00:27:29.000
Kat: It does all the important things.
00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:31.840
Nessie: But yeah, that happened to me another time at the supermarket.
00:27:31.840 --> 00:27:33.820
Nessie: I was like, I love your mask.
00:27:33.820 --> 00:27:35.020
Nessie: It's so cute.
00:27:35.020 --> 00:27:38.800
Nessie: She's like, thanks, I have an autoimmune disorder.
00:27:38.800 --> 00:27:40.180
Nessie: I had COVID two weeks ago.
00:27:40.320 --> 00:27:45.520
Kat: I was like, oh, they got my masking up at the...
00:27:45.520 --> 00:27:51.760
Nessie: Just think about the complements before you say them, because sometimes you're pointing out things that you...
00:27:51.760 --> 00:27:54.420
Kat: I love to compliment, though, so...
00:27:54.420 --> 00:28:07.740
Kat: Then when I did my deep dive, because obviously this sounds like a book that I could get behind and read, it's my level of rhyming, I came up with this book review that explains basically what it's about.
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Kat: A tiny flea with a great big cold disrupts the slumber of a barnyard animal.
00:28:14.020 --> 00:28:20.160
Kat: And so what happens is they're sleeping, and obviously this flea's house is a mouse.
00:28:20.160 --> 00:28:20.800
Nessie: Obviously.
00:28:20.800 --> 00:28:21.560
Kat: Okay.
00:28:21.560 --> 00:28:24.040
Kat: So I'm glad we all got them that.
00:28:24.040 --> 00:28:25.040
Kat: Yeah.
00:28:25.040 --> 00:28:32.300
Kat: And while everybody's asleep in this barn, because this flea has a cold, he sneezes and it causes this whole panic in the barn.
00:28:32.300 --> 00:28:35.600
Kat: And this is quotations from the exact book.
00:28:37.020 --> 00:28:38.880
Kat: It scared the rat.
00:28:38.880 --> 00:28:40.300
Kat: Who cried boo-hoo?
00:28:40.300 --> 00:28:41.620
Kat: And woke the cat.
00:28:41.620 --> 00:28:43.820
Kat: Who hissed my-roo?
00:28:43.820 --> 00:28:45.240
Kat: Real quick, I don't know what a my-roo is.
00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:46.620
Kat: We'll come back to that one.
00:28:46.620 --> 00:28:51.900
Kat: It baffled the bat whose eyes turned blue and confused the cow who muttered moo-moo.
00:28:51.900 --> 00:28:53.280
Nessie: That makes sense.
00:28:53.280 --> 00:28:57.220
Kat: So I am ready to read this whole book.
00:28:58.620 --> 00:29:01.100
Kat: That is, it's easy for me to follow.
00:29:01.100 --> 00:29:03.480
Kat: I just need to learn what my-roo is real quick.
00:29:05.120 --> 00:29:10.120
Kat: But other than that, that word seems too complicated for toddlers, if I can't even get it, then.
00:29:10.120 --> 00:29:11.300
Kat: Yeah.
00:29:11.300 --> 00:29:13.600
Nessie: I'm still just concerned about the bat and his eyes.
00:29:13.600 --> 00:29:15.260
Nessie: I want to put that tonal pin on that.
00:29:15.260 --> 00:29:15.940
Kat: Yeah.
00:29:16.520 --> 00:29:18.140
Kat: Let's check it with the Thrasher's.
00:29:19.820 --> 00:29:25.060
Nessie: The fact that the flea sneezing scared an entire barn.
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Kat: Well, it was dead quiet in there, not even a snore.
00:29:29.220 --> 00:29:30.700
Nessie: And then everyone's like, what the fuck?
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Kat: What if it was like the loudest sneeze ever?
00:29:35.440 --> 00:29:35.880
Kat: You're like, what?
00:29:36.120 --> 00:29:38.240
Nessie: What?
00:29:38.400 --> 00:29:39.740
Kat: And then everyone's like, what?
00:29:39.740 --> 00:29:42.460
Kat: Is there this very giant in here?
00:29:42.460 --> 00:29:43.900
Kat: What is that?
00:29:43.940 --> 00:29:46.020
Nessie: The mouse's ears are ringing.
00:29:47.820 --> 00:29:49.560
Kat: And he's like, my house.
00:29:49.560 --> 00:29:51.820
Kat: My house is getting all crazy.
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Kat: Flashbacks.
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Kat: He's like, guys.
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Kat: Because sometimes when I'm around you, I'm like, do you think I'm a tick?
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Nessie: Yeah, no.
00:30:03.260 --> 00:30:07.780
Kat: I could throw this right into the wind, because girl, I'm stuck on you.
00:30:07.780 --> 00:30:12.760
Nessie: So I just say, can you not bury yourself in my skin?
00:30:12.760 --> 00:30:13.240
Kat: Please?
00:30:13.240 --> 00:30:14.140
Nessie: That'd be great.
00:30:14.140 --> 00:30:23.080
Nessie: How you attended this parasitic, like, last week, you had a parasitic larvae in my heart.
00:30:23.080 --> 00:30:27.440
Kat: And now you're in, now I'm stuck on you a little too closely.
00:30:27.440 --> 00:30:29.800
Kat: Yeah, you're just either...
00:30:29.800 --> 00:30:34.780
Kat: I just pick a full stuff rack and stick it in, if that's what you want.
00:30:34.800 --> 00:30:35.960
Kat: I just need some space.
00:30:35.960 --> 00:30:36.820
Kat: It's not you, it's me.
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Nessie: All right, ticks, ticks are a bloodsucking parasite that feed on your butt.
00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:49.140
Nessie: There are four stages, egg, larva, nymph, and adult.
00:30:49.140 --> 00:30:54.400
Nessie: And they need to feed on blood meal before switching between life stages.
00:30:54.400 --> 00:30:59.780
Nessie: And so ticks lay eggs in secluded areas with dense trees and shrubs.
00:30:59.780 --> 00:31:06.340
Nessie: And some types of ticks can actually lay three to six thousand eggs at one time.
00:31:06.420 --> 00:31:09.020
Kat: And I thought the flea was busy.
00:31:09.020 --> 00:31:11.320
Kat: Girl, you're good in the world.
00:31:11.320 --> 00:31:13.100
Nessie: The tick be.
00:31:14.420 --> 00:31:16.520
Kat: They need to.
00:31:20.380 --> 00:31:21.220
Nessie: Like rabbits.
00:31:21.260 --> 00:31:23.900
Kat: Oh my gosh.
00:31:23.900 --> 00:31:27.020
Kat: Anyways, professional.
00:31:27.720 --> 00:31:28.520
Kat: Got it, got it, got it.
00:31:28.520 --> 00:31:28.700
Kat: Sorry.
00:31:28.900 --> 00:31:36.720
Nessie: Um, within two weeks, the eggs hatch and their larvae and the larvae move into the grasses, find their first meal.
00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:39.960
Nessie: Then they attach themselves to their first victim for a few days.
00:31:39.960 --> 00:31:41.000
Kat: The first victim.
00:31:41.000 --> 00:31:42.400
Kat: Guy, they're terrifying.
00:31:42.400 --> 00:31:43.580
Nessie: They suck your blood.
00:31:43.580 --> 00:31:44.600
Nessie: Of course, you're a victim.
00:31:44.680 --> 00:31:45.500
Kat: Oh yeah.
00:31:45.500 --> 00:31:48.040
Kat: I'm going to suck your blood.
00:31:48.040 --> 00:31:49.760
Kat: Oh, oh, oh, oh.
00:31:51.600 --> 00:31:53.720
Kat: I, I, it, this.
00:31:53.780 --> 00:32:00.120
Nessie: So then they fall on the ground, and then nymphs can remain inactive during winter and become active in the spring.
00:32:00.120 --> 00:32:00.760
Nessie: So they're dead.
00:32:00.760 --> 00:32:02.980
Kat: And sounds like something a nymph would do.
00:32:02.980 --> 00:32:04.940
Kat: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:32:04.940 --> 00:32:10.240
Nessie: They feed again, they fall off, become an adult, and then the adult feeds for eight to 12 days.
00:32:10.240 --> 00:32:23.680
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