How did my indoor cat get tapeworms?

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AskAlotaQ's

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My 3 year old, indoor only cat has tapeworms. We are baffled on how he got it. Of course, he is being treated for it, but since we have no clue how we got it, how do we prevent it from happening again?

There are absolutely NO fleas in our house. No other animals leave the house, and no other animals enter the house.

There are no rodents, etc around for our cat to eat.

In fact, our house is very clean, and there is never trash or spoiled food laying around.

How could my cat have gotten tapeworms?
 
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Bigclookies

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How do cats get tapeworms?

First, tapeworm eggs must be ingested by flea larvae (an immature stage of the flea). Contact between flea larvae and tapeworm eggs is facilitated by contaminated bedding or carpet. Adult fleas do not participate in this part of the tapeworm lifecycle.

Next, the cat chews or licks his skin as a flea bites; the flea is then swallowed. As the flea is digested within the cat’s intestine, the tapeworm hatches and anchors itself to the intestinal lining."
 
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