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Cats, especially feral cats, commonly carriers of Toxoplasma gondii, are a public health hazard to humans. The city could potentially employ this fact as a cons
by pervycreeper 8y ago
Cats, especially feral cats, commonly carriers of Toxoplasma gondii, are a public health hazard to humans. The city could potentially employ this fact as a consideration.
- slimsag 8y agoOwls, and birds in general, also carry lots of disease. Psittacosis for example. So I don't see why that should be a consideration (unless you advocate something crazy like a complete sterilization of all non-human life?).
- pervycreeper 8y agoPresumably, the relative risk of infection from owls to people who don't seek them out is much lower than it is from cats. My point is only that the health risks could conceivably be used as a pretext to take action against the cat "rescue" operation.
- RIMR 8y agokill 'em all, let God sort 'em out.
- PhasmaFelis 8y agoYou pretty much have to directly interact with cat shit to catch toxo, and cats instinctively shit in out-of-the-way places, so your odds of actually getting it from a feral cat are pretty slim.
- Ensorceled 8y agoOut of the way places like kid’s sandboxes.
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- ihatecats666 8y agoThat’s not difficult when cats you don’t own crap all over your property. I’ve put my hands and knees into cat crap way too many times. Fsck cats.
- pervycreeper 8y agoGoogle employees (and anyone else) who have to interact with GCat participants, or happen to touch the same surfaces that they do, are also put at risk.