I didn't think it was a disgusting picture.. it's just a kitty having a squirrel snack! Hmm.. I heard on the news that it was the ticks we had to watch out for, not fleas. We don't have fleas in CO for some reason, thankfully. But I know we're supposed to watch out for squirrels & prairie dogs. They're the ones supposedly carrying plague (we just had a case of pneumonic plague like last week? this week?
http://www.thedenverchannel.co...).
http://www.city-data.com/forum... My Wolfgang had one tick on him and I treated him with a medication.. like 4 months later he died of lymphatic cancer, and the cat who slept with him nightly died 3 months after that. But I don't know where he got the tick from.