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Can lice live on dogs?

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Chewing lice live on the dead skin of your pets. They cause irritation, which causes your pet to scratch. They can carry diseases and transmit tapeworms to your pets. The blood-sucking lice do just that—such blood. Pets with lice will scratch and bite a lot. If left untreated, lice can cause fur loss. read more

No. The two treatments 9 days apart are designed to eliminate all live lice, and any lice that may hatch from eggs that were laid after the first treatment. Many nits are more than ¼ inch from the scalp. Such nits are usually not viable and very unlikely to hatch to become crawling lice, or may in fact be empty shells, also known as casings. read more

The Life of Lice. About the size of a sesame seed, head lice, six-legged parasites that live on the human head, are hard to see. And nits -- eggs that females glue onto hairs near the scalp -- are even more difficult to spot. But, luckily, lice can't live more than a few days away from the warmth and food the human head provides. read more

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