DEMOCATS ?
Posted on 05/29/2012 1:53:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Poor opossums.. They better not kill them!
I live in Orange County. I hadn’t heard about the threat of typhus. We have a huge population of fruit rats in the county. They have fleas too. I would think the feral cats would help to keep the fruit rat population down.
Ironically, possums are more likely to spread disease than feral cats. Besides, apparently the cats are a lot smarter, being natural predators.
I suppose it would be too much to ask these scumbags to close the border before more turd world treats get back into these United States?
Why do the vector control officials think that a third world disease was brought in by feral cats?
Betcha.
Would you please give the link to this article, thank you.
This article is one I would like to link to the source as gathering info. on feral cats.
Hmmm. Santa Ana, the city with 90% illegal aliens??
I can think of three reasons.
1. There is a Chinese family restaurant in the neighborhood that uses ALL sorts of creatures for the "chow mein"--as neighbors notice the disappearance of stray whatevers.
2 There is a Chinese family in the neighborhood that DOESN'T frequent the local butcher. 'Nuff said.
3. The vector control is nuts.
The Chinese immigrants DID bring us bubonic plague because the plague DID get its start in China.
Cats spread toxoplasmosis which is now proven to change human brains and personality.
Kill them.
How did they narrow it down to these cats and these fleas?
Did they find typhus in the feral cat area?
I mean you can have a flea hop on you while you’re at WalMart, so how do they know it came from that particular area?
I’ve noticed that some cats that live outside are more prone to ticks than fleas ; I think it’s because they don’t make very good hosts.They may have a flea here or there, but for some reason, they are not infested. Kittens I have seen infested and I think it’s because they have such a high body temp and fleas are drawn to heat.
I have cared for feral colonies-catching them, fixing them, trying to care for them, and fleas were never a big issue. Except for the kittens. So I’m really curious how they discovered this.
For you cat lovers (or not), my feral colonies are long gone. Once you fix them, you stop the colony from growing and they don’t live very long in the wild-even with rabies and other vaccines they might live 4-5 years. They are domesticated and aren’t meant to live in the woods or in old buildings.
We took in the last group of kittens that survived-that was about 9-10 years ago and we just lost one of them last weekend.
DEMOCATS ?
The cats are a scape goat. The Government in it’s infinite lack of wisdom will kill the cats then freak out as rats and other vermin make inroads into the area due to a predator being removed. Then the health situation will really tank and the Government will blame Bush or someone.
Instead of killing the cats and eliminating a predator of vermin in the area, there are other means to remove a large portion of the fleas and such.
Why haven’t they looked into that?
Freaking idiots.
I agree. I don’t buy this ‘cats are the culprit’ bullcr*p either.
I believe it was Genghis Khan who brought the bubonic plague to Europe.
What about all the birds they kill?
Well, Genghis Khan brought it to Turkey. He stopped there. The Italians brought it over from Turkey to the European mainland.
RATS -- they all allowed rats to infest their lives.
According to Wikipedia, it’s lice that are the vector, not fleas.
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