Cat down my road is covered in fleas

[Lucyellensmum99]

to the extent that you can see them jumping off of the poor creature. It looks ill, its coat is obviously in a state and sores on its back. I think i know who her owner is, and i think i would be likely be told to fuck the fuck off if i approached them. Not that i can offer help really, i can't afford to buy any frontline otherwise i'd sneakily apply some. I asked my mum if she had any spare from when she had her cats but she hadn't.

Does anyone have any ideas who to contact? I doubt the RSPCA will do anything. The cat does look well fed, not sure if it is old or not, but the fleas are clearly making it ill. I've never seen fleas on a cat unless ive been looking for them, but i just saw these as i bent down to stroke it.

[droitwichmummy]

I would definitely report it to RSPCA. Tell them about the sores as well as the fleas - it is clearly being neglected and they should take action especially as you can tell them where it lives

[QueenofPlaids]

We had one & we flea treated it (although I thought it was a stray). Best thing for the kitty for sure, but it's umm, kind of adopted us, which is now a bit awkward because we know he's not a stray...

That said, our little visitor was flea ridden and had worms (so awfully skinny), but no sores or whatever. He was new to the neighbourhood and I don't think the owner took that into consideration (he's a very dominant cat, even as a pensioner - so to speak - so was fighting every kitty in sight).

Yours sounds a bit more like serious neglect / maltreatment than being a bit slack, so RSPCA might be the way forward.

SSPCA were bloody useless when we thought he was a stray - even claimed their vet said he wasn't 100% that he had fleas when they were jumping off him and we'd used a flea comb. But the it was pretty obvious that in the event of no owner we would have take. Hm.