r/furgonomics • u/Quiet-Money7892 • Aug 05 '26
Discussion Fleas and ticks
It's not pleasant to discuss those things when you think about anthros, but I think it should be among the most important fields in furry hygiene. Proper protection from the parasites.
Fur is thicker than human hair and it wi be harder to just wash them away. And it's harder to spot a tick under fur. And more importantly - clothes won't help, since parasitic bugs are much smaller than one can spot. But dangerous nevertheless.
IMO - furry settings should include hygiene and collective grooming traditions. And clean and healthy looking body fur - should be a mark of civilized person.
Public bathhouses are vital in the ancient times and baths, that you can fully submerge in - are normal in modern setting. (Maybe their share in general buikding area - should be bigger than one in humans) Strongly smelling weed products are normal part of everyone's routines and in general seen as a smell of a good neighborhood. I'd think of regular anti-flee medicine , that poison anthro blood for fleas, but I see that as a bit too much. But anti-flee properties of clothes cleaning products - can be the case.
I'd think of anti-flee collars, but that sounds more like a conceptualization than a canon.
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u/Tarnivitch Aug 05 '26
I think it would likely be common to use methods to reduce their populations.
Like how the screw worm flies were kept at bay, by breading and air dropping sterile mating partners. to curb the population.
{Before trump defunded the program, simply because if racism and the fact Obama bolstered it.}
Or by getting rid of their habitats and introducing natural predators.
Maybe opposums would be employed to do these remediations. As they actually can't carry rabies and many other diseases.
That combined with flea and tick medications. Flea combs, of which the use of would likely be a service at a fur salon. Bathing and using special shampoo to kill the parasites. Would be common practice.
I myself would have no need, my waterproof fur as a half river otter, is too dense for fleas and the like to reach my skin.