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do wolves have fleas?

i’ve recently wondered that…because a wolf pack will regularly groom each other, and they are clean animals, even though they live outside. i could see a sick, lone wolf having fleas, but not wolves in a pack. i dunno, what do you guys think?

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1 month, 2 weeks ago (3 minutes after post)

Well i really dont know, but i think they do if a pack of wolves arent there to groom them. Then again some birds eat fleas and other irritating bugs that bother animals. In the wild everything works together.

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An Unknown Location | 1 month, 2 weeks ago (10 minutes after post)

they can’t get them. they have a built up immunity. something to do with digestive glands or something here’s the link i found this info on.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/ind…

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Stone Wolf offline Verified User (2 months) Shouts: 44 #
An Unknown Location | 1 month, 2 weeks ago (11 minutes after post)

yes wolves can have flees weather in a pack or alone and for the record cuz im sre somone is going to say somthing no i dont have fleas lol im a STONE wolf stones cant have fleas

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Toronto, ON, CA | 1 month, 1 week ago (1 day, 19 hours after post)

The answer malori sources is good, but a little misunderstood. Animals in the wild can get parasites. Generally things that live in the wild have some natural immunity, but parasites are a generally spread in the wild too. Humans have all kinds of flea collars and flea pills and shampoos, etc. There are all kinds of myths about this or that species of animal being immune to disease and parasites. I think crocodiles are generally immune to most bacteria, but I digress.

I’m sure wolves living in a pack are more likely to have fleas as they are more likely to spread amongst the whole pack. Perhaps not in the very cold parts as fleas lay their eggs wherever animals lie down, but there is no special immunity that wolves have.

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An Unknown Location | 1 month, 1 week ago (1 day, 19 hours after post)

so now the real question do you have wolves or fleas, that were so annoying you tried to sic wolves on them?

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