Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

AIBU to think my child got flea bites at his dad's?

7 replies

Exhaustedand · 05/10/2026 13:39

My kiddo came home last night from his dad's covered in red spots.

I think they look like flea bites. 😡😡 He has over 30 of them all over his body but particularly around his lower back/hips.

His dad is insisting that he had them when he went on Friday night but I know 100% that he didn't because I helped him in the shower about an hour before he went to his dad's.

They have two cats and a dog.

AIBU to think my child got flea bites at his dad's?
OP posts:
ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 05/10/2026 14:06

I have plenty of (very stressful) experience of flea bites, but I need to see a picture, really.

LaurieFairyCake · 05/10/2026 14:15

Yes those are bites

Charla69 · 05/10/2026 14:26

I had this issue with my kids dad, he was pulled up on it but insisted it wasn't him. I made him flea his pets/house and guess what?, no more bites!.

takealettermsjones · 05/10/2026 14:28

Yeah they look like flea bites. I'm guessing from his reaction that he wouldn't take kindly to you asking him to just give his pets an extra treatment?

Exhaustedand · 05/10/2026 14:46

Oh no he absolutely won't. I dropped him a message yesterday asking if he'd seen the spots and got an abusive response.

OP posts:
takealettermsjones · 05/10/2026 14:51

Exhaustedand · 05/10/2026 14:46

Oh no he absolutely won't. I dropped him a message yesterday asking if he'd seen the spots and got an abusive response.

😫 Is there anyone you could get on side? Is your ex MIL still friendly, or maybe a sibling?

Exhaustedand · 05/10/2026 15:18

takealettermsjones · 05/10/2026 14:51

😫 Is there anyone you could get on side? Is your ex MIL still friendly, or maybe a sibling?

Oh not his mother absolutely hates me unfortunately.

OP posts:
New posts on this thread. Refresh page