Lice is a parasitic organism, meaning it feeds off of its host in a negative way.
Lice is most often species specific- meaning that the lice (in this case cat lice) evolved along with its host (the cat) and would have a had time adapting to a different species such as a human.
Yes lice can stay on pets, including, birds, mice, rats, small animals.
Lice can survive as long as they have some kind of mammalian host.
Lice can't fly or jump they can only crawl, so if lice crawls off a human, a cat can get it.
no lice can not live without a human scalp or they will die in 2 days
No lice can only live on people
no
Yes Cats can get Lice. However it is not the same type as lice as humans get. Cats will not contract human lice, and we will never have the cat lice Felicola subrostrata. It's species specific, meaning it only effects the certain species it likes. Don't belive look it up somewhere else
Body lice, or nits. They have evolved two species to live with humans, pubic lice and hair lice.
No please never blame animals for lice since lice cannot live off animals
Lice are parasitic insects that must live, feed and reproduce on the body of a living host and they are parasites of humans
In theory, the answer is YES. Lice must live on a host (i.e. your cat), they do not live very long off of the host. It could be possible for a louse to be on your clothes from holding one cat and be immediately transferred to another cat. If one cat in a household has lice, all cats in that household should be treated for the lice to make sure that they are completely eliminated from the home. K. H., DVM
A louse (lice, plural) lives on a specific animal depending on what species of louse it is. Lice inhabit living environments on animals from birds to humans. A common misconception is that human head lice only live in the hair of humans who do not brush or wash it; lice are very easily spread between human hosts, and they will live in clean hair just as easily as dirty.
The lice that cats get are specific to cats. They do not transfer from other species but are spread within the species. Cats get lice from other cats who have lice. As with humans, it's not a matter of cleanliness, but of popularity. (In fact, lice like clean heads better!)
No, they can only survive on humans living off our blood.
No because humans don't usually live around birds or get close to them
The usual technique for getting rid of head lice is to shave off all the hair, so the lice are not hidden by the hair, and then the lice can be individually removed with tweezers. For those who are unwilling to lose their hair, it is also possible to get special shampoo that kills lice.
No, its a different type of lice.
A parasitic relationship is one in which one organism, the parasite, lives off of another organism, the host, harming it and possibly causing death. The parasite lives on or in the body of the host.....