What do fleas and ticks look like?

Fleas are dark brown, fast, and like to jump. They're smaller, maybe around the size of a pinhead. They're tiny, but they are visible to the naked eye, and then ticks kind of look like a distorted spider, maybe, is the best way to describe them. They've got a big old belly and itty bitty legs.

Fleas are very small, but they're not microscopic, so you can see them with the naked eye. They have oval-shaped bodies with really long legs, and they're usually brown. They're very bouncy, so whenever you see them, they'll usually spring very far out of the way. Their movement is often very characteristic, and they're very itchy. Ticks have more of a flat, round body, and they have really short legs. They're much slower moving and crawling. They kind of crawl between the fur and will then attach. Their appearance will change once they are engorged with blood or they take a meal. They can become much larger, and they're often gray in color. It's important to try to remove the entire body, and if you're uncomfortable doing that, we can help with that too.