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["John Barbowski" <jbarbowski@hotmail.com>]

Speaking of mortality, studies in Great Britain have shown that the domestic cat reduced song bird populations in urban areas by as much as 50%!

In Toronto, (and ather urban areas I would assume), A high percentage (75-80% I believe) of outdoor cats are infelted with a virus. Cats also carry a virus that is very detrimantal to the foetus in pregnant women.

For what its worth, I still like the little creatures.

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>Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:20:14 -0500

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>The two chief sources of outdoor mortality are cars and coyotes. We

> try to avoid the latter by keeping the cats indoors at night. The

> female hangs out around the house, and stays off the roads. The

>male may be killed by a car, but he was clearly an outdoor kitten

>before we got him, and he begged to go out from the day he joined

>us. The first day we let him out (on purpose, when he knew we

>woudn't try to grab him and put him in) he was ecstatic, rolling

>and leaping and climbing until he was out of breath, and then going

>back for more. (Have you ever seen a kitten pant?) Quality of

>life counts for something, and this cat is meant to be an outdoor

>cat. That the two of them seem to kill rodents is a plus, not the

>reason they go outdoors.

>

 

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Delivered-To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org Received: from tisch.mail.mindspring.net (tisch.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.157]) by happyhouse.metalab.unc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A935200CF for ; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:27:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from user-0c8hn5u.cable.mindspring.com ([24.136.220.190] helo=mindspring.com) by tisch.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18mNXW-0005dx-00 for nafex@lists.ibiblio.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:29:14 -0500 Message-ID: <3E56C4EA.9050906@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:31:38 -0500 From: Keith Benson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: North American Fruit Explorers Subject: Re: [NAFEX] A rewarding little fruit... References: <F3I6Vq1UInT3bJ6zsKX00012f3e@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers List-Id: North American Fruit Explorers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 00:27:58 -0000 Cats also > carry a virus that is very detrimantal to the foetus in pregnant women. Not a virus but a parasite, and it is contact with the feces taht aids transmission. That is why preganant women should not be cleaing the litter box. Testing the cats is futile - they do not come up positive until after they have shed the infective stage. Websearch Toxoplasmosis for details. Uh-oh - back to fruit! Anyone on the list engaged in at-home micropropagation?? Keith