can cats carry head lice? if your not positve dont answare?

Answer 1

Cats CANNOT carry human head lice. They have their own species of lice that prefer cats.

Answer 2

Last year I did some on-line research on head lice when we got a note saying a kid at my daughter's school had it. Everything said that head lice can only survive on the enzymes in human blood and therefore cannot be passed to or caught from pets, including cats.

Here's one article that mentions it:
http://kidshealth.org/parent/infections/common/lice.html

Scroll down to where it asks if head lice are contagious.

Answer 3

Well if you read this month's parents, may have been last month's magazine there is an article on head lice and they stated that your pets can not carry lice. That they only live on human heads.

Answer 4

I don't know why the other person said this, but head lice are NOT spread by pets. The scientific name for a head louse is humanus capitis and as you can guess "humanus" stands for human. This is a human parasite and is not spread from animals.

Here is a website to prove that i'm not inventing;
http://www.astdhpphe.org/infect/lice.html

Answer 5

according to headlice.org, humans cannot catch head lice from cats or vice versa. animals have their own type of lice. human head lice only feeds on human blood. like i said, according to headlice.org........... but i have heard others say it's possible

Answer 6

Yes, it is possible! If you suspect your cat has lice, call the vet! If you have it, you might want to ask your vet what you can do to prevent your cat from getting it from accidentally.

Answer 7

Cats can get Sarcoptic Mange which may give you the same feeling as lice.

It's basically scabies for animals.