To concur with blob, the reason there are no pet ambulances is because bringing a carrier in a taxi is usually not a problem. I presume it’s even less of a problem with more informal services like Uber.
Fleas: It sucks but little creepy critters are something you have to get, not exactly comfortable with, but able to handle without freaking out. Consider exposure therapy.
All that makes sense. I can handle spiders and snakes, but fleas and lice freak me out. I actually got fleas once. I was cleaning apartments one summer years ago, and this one place was crawling with hungry fleas, as the furry hosts had moved out days before. Rushed home, threw clothes in washer, got in shower–too late. I was covered in bites, and it was a three-day weekend, so no pest control. That’s where the phobia started.
I got some nontoxic powder guaranteed to kill the little critters and keep the place flea-free for a year. Can I call this whole experience exposure therapy?
You are not that bad, because you are able to discuss the fleas. I’ve come across such spider-phobic people online, that they cannot hear about them or talk about them.
I have chickens, and chickens can get lice. Lice are “creepier” than fleas because of the egg sacs sticking to hair/fur/feathers, but even there, all you need to do is treat, and then treat again when the eggs have hatched. They give me the creeps, too, but modern treatments are very effective, and immediate treatment when any are noticed means you don’t end up with the type of infestation you’d get where they’ve just been left to breed, like in that infested apartment.
It’s the difference between a fly getting in from outside and swatting it with the swatter or zapping it with a burst of flyspray, and leaving an uncovered roast on the counter and leaving the flies to have at it. A flea on a pet is very little bother if you treat immediately, and you won’t have that bother if you keep up the spot-ons constantly (I only use them in the hotter months, the fleas don’t bother anyone in winter, they “get going” in spring), and your spot-on won’t even have any work if you have a completely indoor pet (the fleas jump on them outside, they hang about in the soil). It’s unfortunate that Daisy brought some critters with her.