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There are many kinds of lice (about 3000 species), most of which are host-specific and cannot survive long on a different species.

Specifically, human head lice will starve to death within a day or so if they cannot feed on human blood. A toy poodle might pick up a live louse from an infested human, but unless the louse can move back onto a human quickly it will die of starvation.

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