This article is from the Basic Health Care FAQ, posted to rec.pets.cats newsgroup. Maintained by Cindy Tittle Moore with numerous contributions by others.
Actually, you can have fleas and ticks in your home even without pets. But having pets does increase the odds you will have to deal with either or both of these pests. There is a FAQ on fleas and ticks available via ftp to rtfm.mit.edu under pub/usenet/news.answers/pets/fleas-ticks. If you do not have ftp access, send email to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with "send usenet/news.answers/pets/fleas-ticks" in the body of the message. Leave the subject line empty, and don't include the quotes in the send request.
 
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