AMEN! Kat
On Saturday, February 2, 2013, Lee Evans 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 Felvtalk@felineleukemia.org http://felineleukemia.org/mailman/listinfo/felvtalk_felineleukemia.org
