04-02-2017, 02:29 AM
A very warm welcome to the Forum, Editorialist12 
And thank you for an excellent post.
I hope your post will reassure cat owners, and prevent any discrimination against cats. There are some cat-haters about who want to hate them for this reason or that.
We have no rabies in the UK, but there is still an unfounded fear about toxoplasmosis, and "cat scratch disease" (which is quite rare actually, and more to do with the immune system of the person scratched.) All I can say is I regularly get cat scratches during play or 'kneading' and never had any problem with them.
And then there are those who hate cats because they say they kill birds. All I can say to that is I have been looking after a cat (indoor/outdoor cat) for 5 years now, and see almost all of her 'kills' or clear evidence of her kills, and in that time she has killed two small birds, but a far greater number of mice and one rat. Birds aren't all that easy to catch!
And thank you for an excellent post.
I hope your post will reassure cat owners, and prevent any discrimination against cats. There are some cat-haters about who want to hate them for this reason or that.
We have no rabies in the UK, but there is still an unfounded fear about toxoplasmosis, and "cat scratch disease" (which is quite rare actually, and more to do with the immune system of the person scratched.) All I can say is I regularly get cat scratches during play or 'kneading' and never had any problem with them.
And then there are those who hate cats because they say they kill birds. All I can say to that is I have been looking after a cat (indoor/outdoor cat) for 5 years now, and see almost all of her 'kills' or clear evidence of her kills, and in that time she has killed two small birds, but a far greater number of mice and one rat. Birds aren't all that easy to catch!
