ALABAMA – Like the children in her house, Sunny the cat was thrilled when she found that a circus was coming to her locality. Having never seen one, she anticipated the day that she could meet big cats like the lions and tigers that live in the circus. When the circus finally arrived, Sunny anxiously begged to come along with her humans for the festivities.
This was not any ordinary circus, as Sunny soon found out. She had in fact been taken to the Flea Circus. Sunny watched in horror as tiny acrobat fleas turned over quarters, crawled across tight ropes, lept from heights into tiny cups of water, and even pulled around tiny chariots using a wires strapped around their bodies. “If they can pull those little carts around, what could they do to me?” she mewed as a unicycling flea flung itself past her head. She also states that she might have seen one flea dressed as a clown. For the grand finale, the fleas lined up and bounced in time with an obscure show tune.
The “flea circus” has been a popular topic in debates for decades because many wonder if the fleas are in fact “real.” Although the fleas are real, they are still considered harmful and dangerous, and therefore cats should avoid them at all costs. If you encounter a flea claiming to be a flea circus performer, you should immediately seek treatment and extermination with an appropriate flea killer.
Luckily, Sunny uses Revolution for flea control and therefore did not bring home any of the performers.