Truer words were never spoken. I'm not overly fond of most humans
who are not only misinformed, but are far more destructive than cats.
Lorrie
On 02-02, katskat1 wrote:
>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!
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