Cuddling kittens can kill you, warn scientists

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Ridgerunner said:
Sometimes, though, exposure to germs is a good thing. I recall reading an article about a study in Germany. They found that people who were raised on cattle farms had a relative immunity to e coli infection in adulthood. They figured the kids were exposed early, maybe got a little sick, then recovered and acquired at least some immunity.

For that reason, I used to take my kids into the corrals, and now take my grandchildren there to play.

There are all kinds of animal vector diseases; some deadly, but most not. Probably we’re better off acquiring immunity early in life. I often did wonder why some old people in otherwise good condition never get sick. Probably it’s because they have been exposed, at some time in life, to just about everything in a given area, and have acquired immunity.
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Yes I was going to say that too… also we old ones tend to have been out in all weathers and more active just in daily living than kids today …
 
Michael68 said:
There are no “Three Cat Nights”!!!
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Now there you are very mistaken…😉 Looking down my bed, one, two three cats… at one stage in my life it was into double figures… One of mine burrows down and keeps my feet warm…
 
Abynissa said:
Bartonella as a vector borne pathogen can be quite serious especially in immune compromised individuals and should be taken quite seriously.
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AKA car scratch fever… and only from infected cats. I am immune compromised , have handled cats including ferals all my life and never caught it.

May as well say we can get the human equivalent of mad cow disease easily…
 
Rosebud77 said:
Now there you are very mistaken…😉 Looking down my bed, one, two three cats… at one stage in my life it was into double figures… One of mine burrows down and keeps my feet warm…
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LOL, I stand corrected!!! 🙂
 
Michael68 said:
LOL, I stand corrected!!! 🙂
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Kind man… I was known in various places as “the cat lady”

You know I had forgotten that when I was first in Ireland I did get badly scratched by a semi feral cat. It did get infected and I took antibiotics. Same with one or two bites through the years… NB ALWAYS males… 😉 A small scratch from one of my new ones but she had been in care many weeks before I took her… And I am immuno compromised … and very lucky!
 
Ridgerunner said:
Agreed, but there are no “cat days” in summer, nor are there any “Cats of the Dow”.
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Yes but the dog days of summer aren’t exactly the most comfortable.

I like both cats and dogs, preferably a Maine Coon cat and a Bernese Mountain dog. My ideal pets.

Those and a thriving vegetable and rose garden and I am set.
 
Sarcelle said:
Yes but the dog days of summer aren’t exactly the most comfortable.

I like both cats and dogs, preferably a Maine Coon cat and a Bernese Mountain dog. My ideal pets.

Those and a thriving vegetable and rose garden and I am set.
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Make sure the dog is not allowed into that garden! Nor the cat… Boycat loves newly seeded beds,
 
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