Re: Smoking Cats
At 10:53 PM 10/28/02, Deborah Harrell wrote: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [I quoted:] In households where they were exposed five years or more, cats had more than triple the risk. In a two-smoker household, the risk went up by a factor of four. Cats ignore whoever they want to, whenever they want to. I can just see the frustration of a lawyer trying to sign up a tabby for a class action suite. LOL And since there's an obesity epidemic among pets (dogs and cats, anyway), would Fido sue his best friend for giving in to those oh-so-sad-eyes and slipping buttered-toast-and-bacon to the pooch? D. J. only eats proper cat food. He weighed 17 pounds the last time he was at the vet. (He has been up to 18.) Fat? No. Slow? Hardly. He can, however, stand on the floor on his hind legs and stick his nose in the sink . . . Somewhere I read that there are fitness clubs promoting bring your dog to the track to encourage jogging. (My former neighbor actually had a cat who would jog a slow 1/2 mile with her, then turn back home. Before he broke a leg and couldn't climb the fence, The first time Andy let someone back over him, it broke one of his hind legs. He still took off running and went over at least one fence before stopping under the neighbor's storage shed (a place he frequently went to cool off on hot days). When he got home from the vet with a pin in that leg, the vet's instructions were to keep him locked up because he wouldn't be able to fight or run from other neighborhood cats looking for a fight. Of course, he had to be taken out of the cage in order to clean it. I put him on the patio in the back yard while I cleaned the cage the first time. Within seconds, he was over the gate so he could see what was going on and supervise . . . --Ronn! :) , D.J. =^.^= , and Midnight =^.^= , Spot (1992-96), and Andy (1989-99) ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Smoking Cats
Here's something I hadn't heard. http://www.msnbc.com/news/788102.asp ...In the study, Moore and other researchers at Tufts and the University of Massachusetts say living in a household with smokers considerably increases a catÂ’s risk of acquiring feline lymphoma, which kills three-quarters of its victims within a year...They found that, adjusting for age and other factors, cats exposed to second-hand smoke had more than double the risk of acquiring the disease. In households where they were exposed five years or more, cats had more than triple the risk. In a two-smoker household, the risk went up by a factor of four. A more detailed and less fluffy version: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/07/020730075305.htm Mirroring Whiskers Maru __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Smoking Cats
In a message dated 10/28/2002 8:51:23 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In households where they were exposed five years or more, cats had more than triple the risk. In a two-smoker household, the risk went up by a factor of four. Cats ignore whoever they want to, whenever they want to. I can just see the frustration of a lawyer trying to sign up a tabby for a class action suite. Amicus Curiae Maru? William Taylor --- Dr. Brin agreed. Poul Anderson's Bran Wave would be written today as a legal nightmare. Animals using sticks to type on the internet, and lawyers fighting each other for the right to even pro bono work--as long as the cameras are on. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Smoking Cats
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [I quoted:] In households where they were exposed five years or more, cats had more than triple the risk. In a two-smoker household, the risk went up by a factor of four. Cats ignore whoever they want to, whenever they want to. I can just see the frustration of a lawyer trying to sign up a tabby for a class action suite. LOL And since there's an obesity epidemic among pets (dogs and cats, anyway), would Fido sue his best friend for giving in to those oh-so-sad-eyes and slipping buttered-toast-and-bacon to the pooch? Somewhere I read that there are fitness clubs promoting bring your dog to the track to encourage jogging. (My former neighbor actually had a cat who would jog a slow 1/2 mile with her, then turn back home. Before he broke a leg and couldn't climb the fence, he also pounced on the mailman regularly...an odd cat.) Mooching Mulch Maru __ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Smoking Cats
In a message dated 10/28/2002 9:53:39 PM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: an odd cat.) I've seem more odd dogs than odd cats. Three legged, I mean. A matter of personality more that genetics? William Taylor Who's Line Is It Anyway comes on at 12:07 Of coure I've written another email. ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
