
In a session at the 2026 Fetch National Harbor conference, Nathanael Oster, VMD, MBA, walked attendees through the biology, diagnosis, and treatment of the flea tapeworm in dogs and cats, including why cats are affected more often than dogs.
Try again. While these findings should not be ignored, a lower urinary tract infection alone or even pyelonephritis would not explain all of her clinical signs. It would be wise to perform urine bacterial culture for occult infection in this case, but infection may only be part of the puzzle.





