Lee, I couldnt agree more, thank you for this email, I will never stop talking about animal rights to people, take care
Sent from my iPhone On Feb 2, 2013, at 5:41 AM, Lee Evans <[email protected]> wrote: > There is so much nonsense, mythology and prejudice going around when it comes > to diseases in general, whether cat, dog or human that it's a wonder any of > us survive the ignorance rather than the disease. An acquaintance of mine was > told by a licensed veterinarian that she needed to have her healthy FIV+ cat > euthanized because humans can catch it from cats. Meow? My tenant, when I had > a rent house, insisted that FIV was highly contagious but FeLv was NOT. Tail > backwards. People to this day refuse to hug a person who is living with HIV > but will shake hands with someone who has a horrid head cold and get all > chummy with people who are coughing all over the air. > > Many veterinarians seem not to like cats to the point of finding reasons to > put them to death. Others are simply too lazy to study new theories of > medicine. In some cases, we have not traveled more than inches away from > dancing around the bonfire to banish evil spirits as a cure for illness. > > Finally, we are now being treated to amazingly inflated statistics from > almost comic studies that produced the startling news that cats kill rats and > mice. Who would have thought!! Not just some rats and mice but toss in > moles, voles and gophers, not to mention those things with wings that mostly > fly. Stir with a hefty dose of sensationalism due to a slow news day, and > you come up with BILLIONS of small mammals and birds being slaughtered and > exterminated by feral cats. Please don't mention though that humans have > hunted dozens of species to extinction just to have a head to hang on the > wall or a rug for the floor, or as a way to stop male sexual dysfunction, or > to carve into little statues or furniture (elephants) or just as a lovely > delicacy to eat at a way overpriced fancy restaurant. (shark fin soup and > other disgusting dishes). Sometimes it seems like humans will kill everything > from snails to whales for the most trivial or ridiculous reason. However, > just let it be known that cats kill mice and rats for a living and you have > panic in the streets. Ah well, time to get off my soap box and go to bed. > > > Spay and Neuter your cats and dogs and your weird relatives and nasty > neighbors too! > > _______________________________________________ > Felvtalk mailing list > [email protected] > http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
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