Jerry 🦙💝🦙Just back from the vet. One word...
Fleas
😕
Simon Zerafa/Me Scratches everywhere ... 🫤
FWIW: Hospitals are also good places to acquire flees 🥴
Alan Miller 
🇺🇦@jerry will your wife be applying medication to the back of your neck?
noplasticshower@jerry not a good word
Steven Hugg
Chilly 
🛡️ 
@jerry
Nooooo
Nooooo
Noxubell@jerry You or the dog?
@noxubell my cat, who was in to have a glucose sensor installed. but I am pretty sure he got the fleas from one of the other cats or the dog, so we are having to treat them all as if they have them
elmar@jerry small consolation but it’s only fleas. I just learned a couple of days ago of “Machiavellian microbes” when listening to "The Disappearing Spoon" podcast. Those are frightening. https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/disappearing-pod/machiavellian-microbes/
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
@jerry I reactively got itchy feet from reading this. 😬
@catsalad when I told my wife, she started getting very itchy too.
derekheld
Wulfy—Speaker to the machines
hal8999@jerry our doggo got fleas bad from a dog park. you could watch them crawl around, dozens at a time. Dish soap killed most of them in 1 bath. None of that flea shampoo stuff.
It's been a few weeks, and doggo (and we) have that psychosomatic 'every itch must mean infestation' hysteria.
gh0sti 
@jerry Jerry you really have let yourself go since retiring.
keen456
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Brian@jerry If anything goes zombie, I'm naming you patient zero.
Andrew Kalat@jerry Aren’t you bald??? Wait, did you not manscape enough?
Hello_there@jerry get a long-lasting carpet spray. That was the only thing that worked for me.
Janice in GA@jerry Once took my dog to vet because he was gnawing the base of his tail. I swore to her he didn’t have fleas.
She took a few minutes, looking around his rear, and very quickly pulled out a flea.
I apologized and get stuff to handle the fleas.
(I really didn’t think he had fleas. I’ve been in flea-infested situations before, and thought I knew what they looked like. I was wrong.)
She took a few minutes, looking around his rear, and very quickly pulled out a flea.
I apologized and get stuff to handle the fleas.
(I really didn’t think he had fleas. I’ve been in flea-infested situations before, and thought I knew what they looked like. I was wrong.)
@Archergal I was just blissfully unaware and I feel bad now
@jerry Yeah, I hear you. I felt bad then too. #FleaSolidarity
lobsterThese vets with fleas are a problem. Are they still living in the woods?
Wait...
wrong type of vets. You mean Dr Dolittlers...
As you wer.
crzydg@jerry been there. Done that. Got fleas AND ringworm. Beat that!