Posted on 02/23/2006 2:22:42 PM PST by GreenFreeper
Check this one out...
LOL!
The more I'm around dogs, the more I love my cats.
The environmentalists are using this as a way to levy even more control over those of us who live in 'watersheds'.
Its old news for the Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary.
This one is up there with "apples cause cancer."
The scientific statements and conclusions in this report, and I use those phrases tongue in cheek, could only be accepted by someone in the nuthouse with hair on his palms.
If this passes as God's truth in California and is used to establish public policy, I guess the apes are running the monkey house, for sure. And California is worse off than when I left.
Which brings me to this serious question: Why the hell are we allowing left wing nuts to occupy the warm, temperate locations on the west coast?
ps - how ya been, hedgetrimmer?
"Why couldn't these little sickos catch toxoplasmosis or something?'
The problem, of course, is that your Boston Terriers weren't swimming in the Pacific Ocean when the cats shed parasites once in a lifetime.
You might want to check the "Cats Crap Parasites Once in a Lifetime" Calendar to determine release times.
Here in the Midwest we ring the church bells, gather up all the children and old folks and burn smudge pots to ward off that once a lifetime when cats crap. So far we're okay, except for a dead daschund.
If you can't find the above mentioned cat calendar, scrape up all sand within a 50 mile radius to reduce the chances of infestation. But if you have no otters, you're safe.
Hope this helps.
Really, my Rot's would eat your cats.......
They'd leave the poo....
This just doesn't pass the sniff test. This pathogen is found worldwide. So how can the author substantiate that the only place Toxoplasma gondii reproduces is in housecats? Can the author substantiate that this is an introduced pathogen? If not, how is this situation any different than infecting bobcats or mountain lions? All of which begs the question:
How does a microscopic pathogen that cannot reproduce in the secondary host cause fatal damage when the count in seawater from landbased runoff from cat boxes is subject to such massive dilution? It's preposterous.
The biggest cause of otter losses are sharks. The second biggest in Monterey Bay are recently reintroduced bald eagles, which pick the pups right out of the water (you should see the screaming matches between the otter people and the bird people). Oh, but they don't mention that; it's your cat box. BTW, the current population of otters is within 10% of the highest it's been since 1900 (BTW, the authors of the article I cited question the validity of claims that the otter population is declining at all; I'd offer quotes but the file is a scanned image, not text, and I don't want to type it all; it's good research, but the writeup needs better graphical work).
A combination of toxic chemicals and herpes virus is killing off California sea lions.
However possible some of the claims in this article may be, there may well be more sea lions in California now than there were at the time of Cabrillo, simply because humans have killed their primary predators: Great White Sharks, Grizzly Bears, and Coastanoan Indians. Nobody knows what the pre-Columbian population of pinnipeds really was.
But, since some herpes-infected animals are without cancer, Gulland suspects that POPs, which can cause cancer on their own, are teaming up with the virus to increase cancer rates.
Pretty thin stuff. This looks to me like shilling for money under the MMPA.
I was just going to write exactly what you did except use "ridiculous" instead of "preposterous."
You got a quicker keyboard than me.
:-)
The only other matter I object to is that Conrad didn't include a single otter recipe.
Like this one: "sergeantdave's Apparent Otter Barbeque"
Here's the first three lines of the recipe:
Find cat.
Find otter.
Find ocean
"Really, my Rot's would eat your cats....... "
Taking on both at the same time? Your Rot may get a good chunk of one ... but not without a substantial fight while the other is shredding his 'nads. :-)
I'm such an ignorant hick. I didn't know there was any such thing.
The otters and sea lions never infect other animals with anything? They poop and share their parasites with swimmers and fish...
Rot's were plural....there are two....
Not that I'd let them so your kitties are safe....
Besides, the cats would run up a tree, the Rot's would bark for a while and eventually lose interest....
and then they have the nerve to turn up their noses at the dogfood you buy them...
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