On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 07:54:32 -0700 (PDT), whisky-dave
wrote:

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Considering the topic I would have thought you would have at least
quoted the rest of the points mentioned on that link (but as I see you
are a cat owner I can see why you might not). ;-)

Well there's little point in postingthe whole page just the more important bits.

Quite, the bits that were important to the topic in hand. It was
clearly stating that it's the risks from cats poo. ;-(


"Accidentally swallowing the parasite through contact with cat feces
that contain Toxoplasma. This might happen by

* cleaning a cat's litter box when the cat has shed Toxoplasma in
its feces

So we cat owners do clear up then,

Yes, from the inside of your own houses, again, not really the issue.
;-(

dogs just leave it in the park.

As cats do?

While some owners do clean it up.

Most dog owners do (or risk a fine if seen if they don't). Very few
cat owners do.

But if yuor'e clearing up any **** don't eat at teh same time and wash afterwoods.

Well, quite. But what if you aren't clearing up sh1t. What if you are
like our daughter and doing some gardening for an old lady in her back
garden and unknowingly comes against some cat sh1t, even though the
householder doesn't own a cat? Hardly likely to come across any dog
sh1t there is she and whilst she generally washes her hands before
eating, it's not always easy.


* touching or ingesting anything that has come into contact with
cat feces that contain Toxoplasma

I would assume the same goes for dogs too.

I'm sure there is something bad with most animal poo Dave, the point
is that why should I be at risk or have to deal with cat sh1t at all
when I don't even have a cat? I don't have a dog (or any pets atm) and
whilst I have cleaned up the odd instance of dog mess from the front
pavement, it's still not my (private) back garden and on my vegetable
patch. ;-(

* accidentally ingesting contaminated soil (e.g., not washing hands
after gardening or eating unwashed fruits or vegetables from a
garden)"

Some seemingly everyday actions ... especially for a 'cat owner'? ;-(

Not me, I've never found any fruits or vegetables in my garden you'll rarely see them on a plate to eat eather.

I meant (including) clearing out your cat's litter. You do do that
don't you?

The last thing I had from my garden was a carrot in 1995, still nothing to write home about.

;-)

Strange but a lot of farms tend to keep cats.

Or they 'inherit them more like? And it's not the same sort of thing
with cats and their fouling on a few hundred acres of farmland (if
they ever ventured that far out) versus my 4 sq m of veg patch in my
fenced back garden.


Think on all that when your cat (unlikely to be your dog) walks across
all the surfaces where *you* prepare food after it's carefully buried
it's cr*p in someone else's garden.

well my cat doesn't walk across food preparing work surfaces

How do you know that, OOI Dave?.

I've had 3 cats since about 1994 only one attempted to jump up on the kitchen work surface I said no sterly, grabbed hold of him and gentily throw him out.

And when you aren't there and they are?


and has never craped in anyone elses garden wel not in the last 4 years anyway.

As Andrew asks, how do you know? The only way you could would be that
your cat never goes outside (excellent),

correct she doen't that's how I know.

Good. I did link to a cat site that suggested indoor cats lived longer
and were happier and it should be the direction all cats should go in.

and as for my previous cat I had a webcam on the cat flat so knew exactly when heb went out and came in, filmed documented and shown on a pet program in the USA.

Cool. ;-)



your back garden is 100%
covered in or your cat too old / heavy / lazy to climb out?

She doesn;t want to go out in the garden she was like that with her 2 previous owners too. I leave the back door open she sits at the top of the stairs for 5 mins then goes back and settles down on the sofa.

Good girl. ;-)

It seems you have the ideal setup there (well, other than not having
one at all or them living in a different country or planet g) and I
think I speak for most non-cat owners there. ;-)

Cheers, T i m